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South Korea: Miracle of our times

2012-05-17T13:20:00.001-07:00

Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne gave a speech on 16 May at Korea University in Seoul. It is a great pleasure to be here today at Korea University – which is affiliated with Nottingham University in England, where I studied. I understand that it is the tenth anniversary of the Division of International Studies and I am very pleased to be able to join you in your celebrations. It is entirely fitting that I should speak at an outward-looking, internationalist institution, with strong links to Britain, to advocate a general deepening of the relationship between our two countries.

In several speeches that I have given back in London, it has been noticed that I often mention South Korea. Sometimes I use you as an example for my own country to emulate, as I will explain. The Korean ambassador in London has even joked that I so often sing the praises of South Korea in public that he fears I might put him out of a job!

So I am delighted to have an opportunity to devote an entire speech to your remarkable country. Today, I want to explain to you why I have such admiration for your achievements. And I hope that you will trust me when I say that my praise is not the product of any duty I feel to be a gracious guest. I genuinely see many features of the Republic of Korea as a role model – for my own country, for Asia and for all states that aspire to both prosperous and free.

You have great influence and the potential to show important leadership in many areas. I want to encourage you to embrace this role, to lead by example, and to use your influence to promote prosperity, stability and human dignity around the world.

And, I want to make the case for a deeper, broader partnership between our two countries. We share common interests, common goals, common values – and we should work even more closely together to achieve them.

South Korea: Miracle of our times

It is my birthday tomorrow. I will be 42 years old. During my lifetime, the world has gone through intense and profound change. But, I do not think that any transformation has been as deep or as complete as the one that has occurred here in South Korea.

Over this time, the Republic of Korea has grown from an economy comparable in size to some of the poorer countries of sub-Saharan Africa, to be the 12^th largest economy in the world today – worth over one trillion dollars. In doing so, your GDP has doubled almost nine times; your per capita GDP has increased by a factor of almost twenty; and the value of your exports is over three thousand times greater than it was in 1965.

It is a quite amazing achievement. It is made even more incredible by that fact that such growth has occurred despite a poor endowment of natural resources, despite having a small domestic market, and in spite of the constant threat to your national security that demands considerable attention and financial resources.

And I it is right also to emphasise that the enormous wealth that has been created has been spread remarkably widely across society by international standards. The Republic of Korea has a more even income distribution than Britain does. And it has a thriving multi-party democracy in which human rights and freedoms are protected by law.

Of course, statistics on economic growth can sometimes be difficult to visualise. So when I try to explain the scale of rapid development in South Korea to friends and colleagues at home, I tell them to imagine Gangnam, which, when I was born, was occupied by labourers in paddy fields. I then ask them to picture the skyscrapers, underground railway and businesspeople that live and work there today. This transformation has taken place in little more than a generation.

But your transformation is not just economic and it is not just local. The Republic of Korea has made a mark on the world. Your ships, cars and motorbikes transport people and goods to every corner of the planet. Your mobile phones, laptops and flat screen televisions allow people in each corner to communicate with one another.Samsung, LG, Kia, Hyundai – these are all household names today – in Britain and across the world.

Meanwhile, a Korean Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, leads the United Nations, 634 Koreans are taking part in UN peacekeeping missions and 306 Koreans are in Afghanistan supporting the international mission there. And in 2009, your country made the landmark historical transformation of becoming the first recipient nation of Official Development Assistance to reach the status of a major donor of such assistance.

And South Korea’s cultural and leadership role has also grown at a spectacular pace. You have hosted events of global importance in the sporting world like the iconic Olympics of 1988, the 2002 football World Cup, last year’s Athletics World Championships, and the Winter Olympics – which is due here in 2018 – and some of the world’s most important political meetings like the 2010 G20 Summit, and the recent Nuclear Security Summit.

South Korea: Role Model

So South Korea has shot to prominence – and rightly so. Your meteoric rise and the manner in which it was achieved is something that other countries should – and do – strive to follow.

There are several examples of states that have grown their economies rapidly over the last two or three decades. But there are few who have managed to do so in such an equitable way while giving their citizens the social and political freedoms in which to flourish. South Korea’s rapid economic growth has taken place against a backdrop of democratisation. It is a beacon of hope to those around the world who desire both increased economic prosperity and respect for their human rights and freedoms.

But you are also an example to already developed countries like my own. It is well known that many Western economies are still suffering from the financial crisis and its aftershocks in the Eurozone. Levels of growth are low and levels of public debt and unemployment are high. I am convinced that getting our economies back on track requires us to be more outward-looking – to export more, to be more competitive – to invest in infrastructure and education, and to reduce government debt.

I publically make this point often, and South Korea is a model with many lessons for us to emulate. Here, you export more than Britain, even though your economy is smaller than ours. The literacy and numeracy rates of your children are, by many measures, the best anywhere in the world. Your research and development is cutting edge and well supported. Your population is the hardest working in the OECD. And your government debt levels are low by international standards.

The modern Republic of Korea is an inspiration and an example to countries all over the world, from Asia, through Europe, to the Americas.

Today Korea stands proudly both as a high-income and as a high-growth economy. You have grown to prominence, to wealth, to influence. You have the ability not only to shape your own future, but also now the potential to help shape the future of the world order. I know this is a bold statement, but let me present you with three global areas in which I believe South Korea can show important leadership.

First is prosperity. Korean growth has been based to a large degree on international trade. Exports comprise about half of your GDP. Having little access to natural resources, you have had to import oil, steel and organic chemicals. So you will appreciate as much as any other country the benefits of free trade and open markets.

Yet global economic troubles and election cycles have led to calls in many countries for protection from markets. But such protection always invites retaliation, and tit-for-tat protectionism quickly escalates. As large exporters, both our countries need international trade.

This means that both domestically and internationally, Korea can set a strong example to the world. At home, it is important that your business environment remains open and outward looking; and that regulation remains stable, sustainable and transparent.

And internationally, I admire South Korea for being a strong champion of free trade. You are the only country in Asia to have signed Free Trade Agreements with both the US and EU. I have every confidence that Korea will continue to approach multilateral trade discussions with similar determination and imagination.

Long term prosperity will also depend on the sustainability of economic growth. Korea’s high growth has proven to be the most sustainable in the world to date in terms of the number of consecutive decades in which GDP grew, on average, by more than five percent per year. But looking forward, we all know that our consumption of natural resources and our emission of greenhouse gases are unsustainable. Our economies will have to make the transition to a greener model.

So you should be proud to have taken the lead in Asia by passing legislation to implement an Emissions Trading Scheme, starting in 2015. In doing so, Korea will demonstrate to other countries that growth can be green.

But you can go further still. If South Korea were to more loudly advocate low-carbon economies globally, other countries would listen. You could help other countries gain the expertise necessary to cut emissions and could export the required equipment. Everyone would benefit from a low-carbon global economy. And, with your political leadership and technical expertise, you have a big role to play in achieving it.

By playing its part in promoting free trade and green growth, South Korea would not only benefit the world economy; it would be helping to create the conditions necessary for its own continued prosperity.

The second area in which the Republic of Korea can have an important influence is global security and stability.

You recently hosted a successful Nuclear Security Summit, where more than fifty states made over one hundred commitments to nuclear non proliferation and to preventing the spread of dangerous technologies and materials. You also showed inspirational leadership by ratifying the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and the International Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism.

Nick Clegg, our Deputy Prime Minister, and my Liberal Democrat colleague, who represented Britain at the Summit, told me that much of the Summit’s success can be attributed to the strong example set by Korea.

I know that nuclear security is a threat that is very close to home for South Korea. But there are other risks and threats further away that are also deserving of attention and action.

Events in the Middle East send tremors well beyond their immediate region. Even in Asia, the effect of this turbulence far away has been felt in the rising price of energy and food. And the implications of Iran’s reluctance to engage meaningfully with the outside world over its nuclear problem will be even more acute. South Koreans understand better than anyone else the destabilising effect of nuclear proliferation.

I know that the Arab Spring, intervention in Libya, pressure on Syria and nuclear enrichment in Iran are not geographically close to Korea. But in a world that is growing ever more interconnected, their effects will be felt in Asia. And, as a result, countries here in Asia have a reason and a responsibility to bring about peaceful resolutions to global problems.

South Korea can provide invaluable political support for efforts to resolve such situations. We are delighted that you have joined the Friends of the People of Syria group, are providing forces and aid to the international effort in Afghanistan and are contributing to international efforts to counter piracy in the Gulf of Aden. Your support for UN peacekeeping missions is also immensely valuable, it is respected throughout the world, and I hope that it will long continue.

And your economic size means that you can exert considerable economic influence. As one of the top ten importers of Iranian oil, Korea has an important role to play in assisting European and American sanctions on Iran by purchasing your oil from other producers.

So the Republic of Korea is demonstrating that its leadership can have a significant positive impact on the global security agenda. And you have the potential to have further impact. Your future support for efforts to stabilise countries around the world would be very much appreciated from Washington to London.

The third area in which South Korean leadership can have a major impact is on personal freedom and human rights. Already, the democracy in this country and the liberties enjoyed by your citizens set an inspiring example to the rest of Asia and beyond. But there are two very specific areas in which Korean action could encourage further profound change.

The first is cyberspace, where Korea is already actively supporting progress by hosting the 2013 Conference on Cyberspace, which will be the third of a series of conferences started by the London Conference on Cyberspace in 2011. The spread of the internet is creating a new world, more interconnected than ever before. And we are only now developing the framework of understanding that will govern how the internet is, and is not, governed.

So this is a momentous time. The rules that the international community decide upon will shape the future of internet usage. Britain is determined that these online rules are in accord with the rules we use, and the values that underpin them, offline. We believe that people should enjoy the same rights and freedoms in the cyber world as they do in the real world.

As the host of the 2013 conference, the Republic of Korea could have a big impact on the future of the online world by showing leadership in protecting online rights and freedoms.

The second specific issue on which South Korean leadership could have a profound impact is the death penalty. I know that no executions of prisoners have taken place here for fifteen years. So the Republic of Korea is in practice an abolitionist country. Yet 61 prisoners remain on death row. And other countries in the region can justify their use of the death penalty with reference to its place in Korean law.

By formalising your de facto abolition of the death penalty – as Britain did five years after its last execution in 1964 – South Korea would demonstrate a further willingness to curtail the barbaric misuse of state power which would contrast sharply with your neighbours whose use of the death penalty is condemned around the world.

I believe that South Korea has managed to sustain miraculous economic growth because of – not in spite of – your enlightened attitude to human rights. By granting your citizens political and social freedoms, you gave them the space to be creative; to innovate; to invent a new age of electronics which are now in high demand all around the world.

Personal freedom breeds collective prosperity. And this does not just apply domestically. By promoting personal freedoms and respect for human rights in Asia and beyond, South Korea can contribute to the stability and prosperity of the global economy.

Global stability and prosperity are shared goals. So the final case that I wish to put to you today is that our two countries should work together even more closely in support of common aims.

We already have a strong economic relationship and one that I believe will grow following the momentous EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, which came into force last July. It is the second largest agreement of its kind in the world, and by some estimates could boost two-way trade by over $45 billion. Here in Korea, retail prices of goods covered by the agreement are expected to fall by over six percent.

Over the last fifty years, the UK has been the second largest cumulative investor in Korea, and Britain attracts more Korean investment than any other country apart from the US and China. So our economic relationship has very strong foundations. But I am convinced that there is potential for it to flourish further.

Britain offers great opportunities for Korean investors. It is a springboard into the European Single Market – the biggest trading bloc in the world. Nearly half of all foreign investment into the EU is directed through our country and more overseas companies set up their European headquarters in the UK than anywhere else.

And we are working hard to attract even more foreign companies into Britain. We are lowering corporation tax to just 22 per cent by 2014. That is 18 per cent lower than it is in the United States, 16 per cent lower than in Japan, and 8 per cent lower than in Germany. And according to the World Bank, the UK already ranks 2^nd in Europe, and 7^th in the world, for ease of doing business. And we want to do even better. We are committed to improving this ranking by simplifying British and EU regulations.

I know that the Korean government has identified some specific areas for future growth: software, semi-conductors and pharmaceuticals. These are all sectors in which Britain excels and I hope that your companies will look to the UK for partnership.

In seventy two days, the world will look to London for the Olympics. Over the course of the Games, we will also showcase what Britain and British business has to offer to the world. And we hope to welcome many Koreans – athletes, spectators, politicians, media, businesspeople, everyone – to enjoy this very special summer with us. And we look forward to sharing our experience and working with Korea as you prepare to host the Asian Games in 2014 and Winter Olympics in 2018.

The partnership that I advocate goes beyond reaping immediate economic opportunities. I would like us to work even more together to create exciting new opportunities for our next generation.

I have enormous respect for Korea’s education system. That Korea’s secondary school students top OECD rankings is well known and widely admired. But the proportion of Koreans in higher education is less well known – and it is astounding. In 2005, our then Prime Minister, Tony Blair set a target of getting 50 per cent of young people into university, which many people thought would be too difficult to achieve. But I learnt recently that 74 per cent of Koreans undertake post-graduate level education. This is an amazing level of attainment which is underpinning your economic advance.

I want our two countries to be even greater partners in education. Britain is home to some of the best universities in the world. We are delighted to accept South Korean students to study at our greatest institutions. We have no cap on the number of student visas that we issue and the attraction for Korean students of the English language, rigorous academic standards, a cosmopolitan society and multicultural campuses is easy to understand.

And I would very much like to see more British students studying in Korea. Your universities may not have the long history that many of ours have, but they are strongly focussed on the future. They are at the cutting edge of innovation and attract the attention of businesses looking to recruit the brightest and best graduates for the international jobs market.

There are also vast areas for cooperation and collaboration at a research level. The UK research base is the most productive in the G8 and almost half of our published research is done in collaboration with overseas co-authors. Last year, there were almost a thousand joint UK/RoK scientific publications. This was a 25 per cent increase on 2009 and I hope that this trend will accelerate.

Opportunities for collaboration between our great educational institutions are demonstrated by the links between Korea University and Nottingham University, which I mentioned earlier. Both are members of Universitas 21, a leading global network of research universities. They operate exchange programmes and research partnerships. They even share a world class Professor of cognitive neuroscience in Steven Jackson, who is based out of both institutions.

Education partnerships can help to solve many of the problems of tomorrow. But it is not just the product of education that we care about – the process is also important. And the process – of bringing different people together, of swapping ideas and sharing success – forges strong bonds between societies.

That is why I am here today. That is why I am in South Korea. I want to help deepen the relationship between our two countries. That means even going beyond the crucial transactions of trade and investment. It means even going beyond important private sector and civil society links. It means building a strategic partnership in which we collaborate across the board in order to achieve our common goals.

As the world gets ever more interconnected, our challenges and their solutions will also become more interconnected. The strength or importance of a partnership should no longer be defined just by the physical distance between countries, or their cultural similarities or their shared histories. In our networked world, partnerships can now also be defined by their common goals, shared values and mutual understanding.

I believe that with Britain and South Korea, we have these facets in abundance. And we have much to offer from our side of the partnership. We are a major economic force, world leaders in financial services and home to some of the world’s biggest and most important businesses. We are at the cutting edge of technology, art, and fashion; we have some of the best universities and some of the most influential thinkers and media outlets.

But we are also major political force. Britain is the only country to have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, and membership of the EU, NATO and the Commonwealth. We contribute the second highest number of troops to the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan; we were at the forefront of efforts in Libya and of international sanctions on Iran. We strongly believe in the institutions built to maintain global order and actively work through them to achieve security and prosperity.

South Korea has grown remarkably to economic prominence and political influence. You are a role model for countries far beyond your own part of the world. And you can exercise great leadership in matters of global importance.

Our two countries are obvious partners. And in confronting the challenges of the 21^st Century, we should look to one another for deep cooperation and steadfast support.

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'A few major headlines are leading in Greece today, provoking continued investor wariness. The Athens Stock Exchange is off 0.5 percent so far today.

First, various news sources are reporting that Greece has acquiesced to paying the full value of a �450 million bond denominated in U.K. law which matures today, despite a handful of earlier questions as to whether or not it would come through with the payment.

That decision, though largely expected, signals Greece's willingness to abide by the rules. It is also a fall-out of agreements made in March to go through with a managed debt restructuring, where the majority of bondholders have agreed to voluntary rather than completely coerced write downs.

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'President Barack Obama is chiming in on JP Morgan's shocking $2 billion trading loss.

Here are some released quotes from Obama's pre-taped appearance on ABC's The View.

“JPMorgan is one of the best-managed banks there is. Jamie Dimon, the head of it, is one of the smartest bankers we got and they still lost $2 billion and counting,” the president said. “We don’t know all the details. It’s going to be investigated, but this is why we passed Wall Street reform.”
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ECJ decision to make pension schemes reclaim millions tax from French authorities..

2012-05-14T13:39:00.001-07:00

'UK pension schemes could be able to reclaim almost half a billion pounds in tax paid to the French authorities on direct investments in the country following a recent decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), a pensions law expert has said....
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China Cuts Rate as Predicted

2012-05-12T10:46:00.001-07:00

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People have been predicting this for months, and finally it's here.

After a slew of weak economic data, China is cutting rates.

From Reuters:

The People's Bank of China delivered a 50-basis-point cut in banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR), effective from May 18.

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'China's Super Rich Are Building Private Museums To House Their Massive Art Collections.'

2012-05-09T10:31:00.001-07:00

'HONG KONG (AP) — Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the collection they've amassed. The solution: a private art museum that Wang hopes will impart some class to China's flashy nouveau riche.

Wang and billionaire investor Liu are part of a new generation of wealthy Asians that is better known for splashing out on extravagant toys such as private jets, mega-sized yachts and supercars. Some, instead, have built big art collections and now aspire to showcase their refined sensibility to a wider audience.

The trend is most apparent in China, where entrepreneurs who have gotten rich off the country's booming economy have been splurging on art, making it the world's biggest fine art market last year for the second year in a row.

As China's best known art collectors, Wang and her husband spent nearly 2 billion yuan ($317 million) on art in the past two years, according to a report in the state-run China Daily that quoted Wang. She declined to confirm the figure, and said "I do not like to talk about how much I spent."

Wang's 10,000 square meter (107,640 square foot) "Long" museum is scheduled to open in Shanghai in late October and will cost 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) a year to run. Aside from giving her a space to show off her collection of Chinese revolutionary and contemporary art, Wang said it will also help her give her nouveau riche compatriots a cultural education.

"The rich housewives have money but do not know how to spend it without shopping," she said. "I want to teach them to be more tasteful."

With that goal in mind, one museum is not enough for Wang. She is planning a second Shanghai museum that will start construction in August and open in October 2013.

More are in the pipeline. Indonesian-Chinese farming tycoon Budi Tek is set to open the De Museum in Shanghai next year featuring Asian and Western contemporary art, after opening his first in Indonesia's capital Jakarta in 2008.

Tek's museum will be located in an old aircraft hangar across the river from the site of the World Expo site in Shanghai's Pudong district, on land that the government is giving to him at a preferential rate. Tek will cover the cost of renovating the building and adding extra wings as well as annual operating costs. He wouldn't say how much he plans to spend, but said "the operating costs will be expensive, buying works will be expensive."

Collector Guan Yi is planning one on the outskirts of Beijing, according to art publications. Industry insiders say wealthy collectors are planning museums around China.

Sustainability is a big issue for would-be museum owners, who need deep pockets to deal with costs, said Magnus Renfrew, director of Art HK, Hong Kong's annual art fair.

"It's many millions of dollars for construction or refurbishment, and that's even before you've got to the art and before you get to the staffing and ongoing costs" said Renfrew. "It's not for the faint hearted."

A growing interest in philanthropy is one reason behind the private museum boomlet. Rapid growth is creating thousands of new millionaires in Asia each year. Their ranks grew to 3.3 million in 2011, surpassing Europe for the first time, according to Merrill Lynch and Capgemini. Between January last year and March this year, China's top 100 philanthropists donated $1.6 billion, according to the Hurun Report, a Chinese rich list. That's about a fivefold increase from 2004 when the list started.

But it also recalls earlier periods in the U.S. and Europe when wealthy art patrons helped build museums that are now world renowned.

In the late 19th century, British sugar magnate Henry Tate help fund the construction of a building to house his collection of Victorian art that he donated to the country, paving the way for the network of renowned museums that bear his name. Members of U.S. oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller's family helped found New York's famed Museum of Modern Art in 1929. Businessman Solomon Guggenheim is best remembered for the iconic New York museum his foundation set up in 1939, which was later named after him.

"It's a complex issue," said Philip Dodd, organizer of the Hong Kong art fair's first private museum forum last year.

"Why did Medici commission so much art? Why did the Vatican commission Michelangelo? Was it philanthropy or was it an exercise of power and display and spectacle? I think all those things are involved in Asia too," said Dodd.

Some 40 private museum owners and collectors from Australia, Japan, Indonesia and China are expected to attend this year's private museum forum at the fair, which will be held May 17-20.

Tek acknowledged that vanity and ego played a role when he started building his art collection, but now he has reverted to what he terms a modest lifestyle. He says his only extravagance is flying first class and he doesn't wear fancy watches or clothes and avoids giving too many media interviews.

"The action of opening the museum is an extension of love to society," said Tek, who is president of Sierad Produce, a $155 million company listed on the Jakarta stock exchange.....'

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How Low will Spain Go?

2012-05-09T10:21:00.001-07:00

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The Queen's speech : '...approval on the anticipated accession of Croatia to the EU...'

2012-05-09T04:54:00.001-07:00

Her Majesty The Queen set out the foreign policy areas of the Government's work in this Parliament during her speech on 9 May. In the speech The Queen said that her government will seek the approval of the agreed financial stability mechanism within the euro area, and approval on the anticipated accession of Croatia to the EU.

She said that the Government will work to secure a secure and stable Afghanistan, to reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation, including in Iran, and to bring greater stability to the Horn of Africa.
Turning to situation in the Middle East and North Africa, she said that the Government "will support the extension of political and economic freedom in countries in transition".
The UK will assume the Presidency of the G8 in 2013. The Government plans to use the opportunity to promote international security and prosperity.

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The Disaster You Forgot: PORTUGAL

2012-05-09T02:56:00.001-07:00

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'European Shares Rally But Spain Is Just Cratering...'

2012-05-09T01:37:00.001-07:00

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'Self-disclosure is extra rewarding...'

2012-05-09T00:29:00.001-07:00

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'Talking about ourselves—whether in a personal conversation or through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter—triggers the same sensation of pleasure in the brain as food or money, researchers reported Monday.

About 40% of everyday speech is devoted to telling others about what we feel or think. Now, through five brain imaging and behavioral experiments, Harvard University neuroscientists have uncovered the reason: It feels so rewarding, at the level of brain cells and synapses, that we can't help sharing our thoughts.

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Bragging gives the same sensation of pleasure as food and money. The same areas of the brain are activated, scans show.
"Self-disclosure is extra rewarding," said Harvard neuroscientist Diana Tamir, who conducted the experiments with Harvard colleague Jason Mitchell. Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "People were even willing to forgo money in order to talk about themselves," Ms. Tamir said.

To assess people's inclination for what the researchers call "self disclosure," they conducted laboratory tests to see whether people placed an unusually high value on the opportunity to share their thoughts and feelings. They also monitored brain activity among some volunteers to see what parts of the brain were most excited when people talked about themselves as opposed to other people. The dozens of volunteers were mostly Americans who lived near the university.

In several tests, they offered the volunteers money if they chose to answer questions about other people, such as President Obama, rather than about themselves, paying out on a sliding scale of up to four cents. Questions involved casual matters such as whether someone enjoyed snowboarding or liked mushrooms on a pizza. Other queries involved personality traits, such as intelligence, curiosity or aggression.

Despite the financial incentive, people often preferred to talk about themselves and willingly gave up between 17% and 25% of their potential earnings so they could reveal personal information. "We joked that this was the penny for your thoughts study," Ms. Tamir said..........'

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Goldman Sachs: Stocks Have Been A Better Risk-Adjusted Investment Than Housing Since 1890

2012-05-09T00:22:00.001-07:00

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'Goldman Sachs has been producing a lot of bullish equity research, despite chief U.S. equity strategist David Kostin's bearish view on stocks. Last month, Goldman's Peter Oppenheimer published a massive report titled The Long Good Buy that argued stocks were insanely cheap relative to bonds.

In a new report today title Houses vs. Stocks: Who Wins the Long-Run ‘Sharpe’ Race?, Goldman's Jose Ursua argues that stocks are way better than housing on both an absolute returns basis and risk-adjusted returns basis.

One of the most common risk-adjusted returns measures is the Sharpe ratio. Simply put, it's the excess returns divided by the standard deviation of excess returns. For long-term investments like housing or stocks, Ursua argues "What matters are risk-reward tradeoffs."

Here's a summary of his report...'

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'The Bell Curve Is A Myth...'

2012-05-08T04:19:00.001-07:00

'It's a long-held assumption that human performance fits a normal (or Gaussian) distribution — a bell curve in which only a very small number of people are outliers.
Consequently human resource managers usually work from the idea that in most activities, although there are a few people that are very good and a few people that are very bad, most are about average.

A new study provides evidence that individual performance doesn't fit on a bell curve (with its stable average and limited variance), but follows a distribution in which the average is unstable, the variance is infinite and the prevalence of outliers is much higher.

Statisticians called it a power law (or Paretian) distribution.
Researchers Ernest O'Boyle Jr. and Herman Aguinis conducted five studies involving 633,263 researchers, entertainers, politicians, and athletes. Of a total of 198 samples of performers, 186 (a whopping 94 percent) followed a power law distribution more closely than a normal distribution.....'

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Dead Cat Bounce at the EU Corral ?

2012-05-08T01:26:00.001-07:00

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'China overtook the U.S. as the the largest smartphone market in the world ..'

2012-05-07T10:22:00.001-07:00

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China overtook the U.S. as the the largest smartphone market in the world, according to a report from research firm ...

by Alexander Cocotas on May 7, 2012, 12:13 PM

China overtook the U.S. as the the largest smartphone market in the world, according to a report from research firm Canalys. Global smartphone shipments grew 45 percent year-over-year in the first quarter, but only 5 percent in the U.S. Two thirds of Chinese smartphone shipments were Android devices.

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'Google Lost Money On Android Every Quarter In 2010, But So What? '

2012-05-03T22:23:00.001-07:00

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Google lost money on Android every quarter in 2010, a judge revealed today.

Reuters reports that Judge William Alsup, who is oveseeing the Oracle-Google trial, had previously sealed a document showing Google's sales figures for Android in 2010. Today, though, he revealed that it lost money in each quarter.

"That adds up to a big loss for the whole year."

Previously, an internal Google presentation released during the trial showed that the company expected to lose $113 million on Android during the year. At that time, Google expected Android to earn $62 million in 2011, $248 million this year, and $548 million in 2013.

Google may in fact have turned the corner on Android by now, but it doesn't really matter — Android has helped Google establsh a presence on smartphones, giving it a path to earn money via mobile advertising and integrated mobile and local search. That's vital as users do more things with smartphone apps, and spend less time on the web.

See also: Internal Google Presentation On Android Reveals How It Makes Money

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STCW-95 comes to Gibraltar's Ocean Village

2012-05-03T14:16:00.001-07:00

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#Bestpractice #investorprotectionscheme ??? FSCS: £33m Arch cru claims not factored into levy...

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The Mean Old Investor - 'Europe, Arabs & Hunger..'

2012-05-02T22:40:00.001-07:00

'Anywho, it seems that the deterioration in Spain and Italy has stopped as determined by the lowering of the interest rate on their respective ten year bonds. Not that anything has been solved, mind you. Both of these nations' economies are slowly grinding out negative GDP readings and their debt levels continue ever skyward. I'm not too sure why their bond yields have come down in recent weeks; nothing meaningful has been done to remedy their respective situations. I sincerely hope that the situation remedies itself, but I highly doubt it. Ultimately the basics of mathematics will consume these nations as it already has Greece.
The upcoming election in France this weekend could have large implications. The candidate leading the pack is the Socialist Party's Francois Hollande, who has loudly declared that Germany's insistence on austerity as a cure for the EU's problems is flat out wrong, and he has declared he plans to rewrite the newly rewritten EU treaty to allow greater budget deficits. He's calling this the "Growth Bloc", and ultimately I believe his intention is to begin the monetization of debts, something Germany vehemently opposes. "It is not for Germany to decide for the rest of the Europe" declared Hollande. While I don't believe that over indebted nations should be borrowing more, the current program of austerity is clearly not working either. In the end, those who cannot repay their debts will not repay their debts. If Hollande is able to bring about the treaty changes he believes in, this will leave Germany's Angela Merkel is a most delicate position, in between her own electorate and her high court on one side and the rest of Europe pulling away in the other direction....'

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'Jeremy Hunt, Rupert Murdoch and UK in recession ..'

2012-05-02T02:19:00.001-07:00

Jeremy Hunt's office's email exchange with News Corporation dominated the news
Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson Inquiry, UK back in recession, and French elections were covered lots
PM Mark Rutte (Netherlands) resigns, PM Awn Khasawneh (Jordan) resigns and president Gilani (Pakistan) guilty of contempt covered little

Hacked Off is reporting live from the Leveson inquiry again this week via twitter @hackinginquiry and hackinginquiry.org

The Orwell Prize awards ceremony is on May 23rd. All welcome, email katriona.lewis@mediastandardstrust.org to reserve your free place

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Covered Lots

Jeremy Hunt faced calls for his resignation in response to correspondence between his office and News Corp regarding the BSkyB bid, 409 articles, released after James Murdoch gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, 255 articles
Rupert Murdoch also gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, admitting there was a 'cover-up' of practices at the News of the World, but it was kept from him, 336 articles
The UK was officially declared to be in a double-dip recession, 332 articles
François Hollande, was predicted to win forthcoming French elections, after winning the first round, 124 articles

Covered Little

Political turmoil in the Netherlands as PM Mark Rutte tenders his resignation following concerted opposition to austerity cuts, 28 articles
Growing international pressure on the Ukraine after the former PM, Yulia Tymoshenko, was reportedly beaten by guards while being held in prison, 27 articles
Jordanian PM Awn Khasawneh resigns after just 6 months, raising questions over the deportation of Abu Qatada, 5 articles
The PM of Pakistan - Yusuf Raza Gilani - was found guilty of contempt for blocking corruption case against former President Zardari, 3 articles

Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)

David Cameron, 639 articles (+23% on last week)
Jeremy Hunt, 409 articles (+1263% on last week)
George Osborne, 332 articles (+31% on last week)
Ed Miliband, 205 articles (+37% on last week)
Vince Cable, 171 articles (+375% on last week)
Tony Blair, 168 articles (+39% on last week)
Gordon Brown,151 articles (+152% on last week)
Boris Johnson, 151 articles (+15% on last week)
Nick Clegg, 143 articles (+16% on last week)
Theresa May, 122 articles (-26% on last week)

Celebrity vs Serious

Jessie J, a judge on the BBC's 'The Voice' and also rich, 64 articles vs. Charles Taylor is convicted of aiding war crimes in Liberia at the Hague, 47 articles
Kim Kardashian has an evening with Barack Obama, 39 articles vs. escalation of hostilities in Sudan that bring the country to brink of war, 26 articles
Katie Price is to marry for a third time, 32 articles vs. Barclays bank posts a £475 million pre-tax loss in the first three months of 2012, compared to the same period last year when they had a £1.7 billion profit, 21 articles
Gary Neville enjoys commentating on the Chelsea Barcelona game, 31 articles vs. the Legal Aid bill finally heads for royal assent after being defeated 14 times in the House of Lords, 4 articles

Political zeitgeist

Austerity 432 articles
Double-dip 236 articles
Quasi-judicial 124 articles
Ministerial Code 112 articles

Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)

Nicolas Sarkozy (France), 163 articles (+23% on last week)
Angela Merkel (Germany), 68 articles (+40% on last week)
Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 46 articles (+411% on last week)
Mario Monti (Italy), 28 articles (no change on last week)
Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 21 articles (-52% on last week)
Enda Kenny (Ireland), 10 articles (+25% on last week)
Lucas Papademos (Greece), 6 articles (from 1 last week)
Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Denmark), 2 articles (from 1 last week)
Iveta Radicova (Slovakia), 1 article (from 0 last week)
Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 1 article (-67% on last week)

No other Eurozone leaders were mentioned in UK press coverage.

Who wrote a lot about...the French elections

Henry Samuel, Daily/Sunday Telegraph, 7 articles
Louise Armitstead, Daily/Sunday Telegraph, 5 articles
Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian, 5 articles
Hugh Carnegy, The Financial Times, 4 articles
Ian Traynor, The Guardian, 3 articles

Long form journalism

4,512 words, Andy McNab (Financial Times), A personal dispatch from Afghanistan
4,155 words, John Arlidge (The Times), Show us the money, comrade (£)
3,692 words, Peter Bergen (Sunday Times), We’ve found Bin Laden — now how are we going to kill him? (£)

Journalists who have updated their profile

Tony Barrell is a freelance journalist who has written primarily for the Times and Sunday Times since 1992. Since graduating from Crawley College in 1981 he has held several posts, including being the chief sub-editor of Architects’ Journal, Assistant editor of Traditional Homes magazine and being the chief sub-editor for the Sunday Times magazine. He has also co-authored two books, ‘The Miracle: One Musician's Amazing Struggle For Survival’ (2012), and ‘Eyes Wide Open: Photography by the Winners of the Ian Parry Scholarship’(2004). He has won the Eden Chippert award for humorous journalism (2011).

Grant Collinson is a reporter for VRL Financial News. He previously studied at the University of Glasgow (2004-2008), where he read English Literature and Glasgow Caledonian University (2010), where he completed his Masters in Multimedia Journalism. After university he went to the Herald and Times Group to be a trainee reporter. Follow him on Twitter @grantcollinson

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The Banks in Spain Fall Mainly - The Latest On Spain's Banking Disaster

2012-04-30T22:49:00.001-07:00

http://www.businessinsider.com/sp-axed-the-ratings-of-11-spanish-banks-this-morning-2012-4

If you live in the U.S., then you probably missed one of the biggest headlines out this morning:

Standard & Poor's ratings agency took negative actions on 16 Spanish banks—downgrading 11 of them—following a sovereign downgrade last week to BBB+.

Here are the big changes:

Santander: A+ to A-
Banesto: A+ to A-
Santander Consumer Finance: A to BBB+
BBVA: A to BBB+
Banco Sabadell: BBB- to BB+
Ibercaja Banco: BBB to BBB-
Kutxabank: BBB to BBB+
Banca Civica: BBB- to BB+
Bankinter: BBB to BBB-
Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA): BBB to BBB-
BBSA: A to BBB+
La Caixa: BBB- (placed on creditwatch negative)
CaixaBank: BBB+ (placed on creditwatch negative)
Bankia: BBB- (placed on creditwatch negative)
Banco Financiero y de Ahorros S.A. (BFA): BB- (placed on creditwatch negative)
Banco Popular Espanol: BBB- (to remain on creditwatch negative)

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sp-axed-the-ratings-of-11-spanish-banks-this-morning-2012-4#ixzz1tatt1US3

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Campaign : 'Fairer Financial Services Compensation Scheme received 1,421 signatures yesterday...'

2012-04-26T05:36:00.001-07:00

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http://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/1050250.article? An open letter and petition to FSA chief executive Hector Sants and Treasury financial secretary Mark Hoban generated 678 signatures calling for urgent reform of the FSCS funding model.

Yesterday’s date was chosen for the lobbying effort as Informed Choice says this is the day most interim levies are paid.

Bamford says: “Today I will be writing to Mark Hoban with a copy of the petition and all 1,421 signatures. I will also write to Hector Sants at the FSA and Mark Neale at the FSCS, to ensure they are aware of the strength of feeling over this issue.”

Investment advisers have been hit with a £60m interim FSCS levy for 2011/12, to cover the cost of firm collapses including MF Global Keydata, CF Arch cru and Wills and Co.

The campaign is calling for better categorisation of firms within the FSCS funding model.....'

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