Here’s my final CapitalistCast from Davos. It’s the most content-free yet! The folks in New York have been bugging me to be more like Ana Marie Cox and Mark Halperin and impart actual information about the day to come. But by the time you watch this, the day in Davos will already be mostly or entirely over. Plus I’m just shallow, and …
Smart ways to recession-proof your job
Lately I’m getting a lot of press releases from career coaches, staffing companies and head hunters advising me to tell you that they know how to “recession-proof your job.” If I were being all analytical and boring, I’d say it’s one indicator of voter jitters about the direction of the economy.
But then I got to thinking. My own …
The Curious Capitalist goes full RSS
In response to the extortionate demands of one Felix Salmon (and because I agreed with Felix that it’s a good idea), this blog now offers a full RSS feed.
If you don’t know what that means, don’t let it trouble you. It’s, like, really really hard technology stuff, and you’re much better off just reading this blog right here at Time.com. …
Dutifully promoting the brand
The view from outside the Panasia Gallery in Davos Thursday night
Yeah, that’s Rick Stengel in the middle of the picture. The event was the Time cocktail party last night. Good crowd. No heads of state that I was aware of. But there was a head of a state (New Jersey Gov. John Corzine). I spent a while talking to Mario Moretti Polegato, …
Nouriel Roubini turns bullish, in a fashion
Last year, when Time‘s Board of Economists gathered for its annual debate in Davos (and no, Time doesn’t really have a Board of Economists on an ongoing basis, we just gather them together every year here at the World Economic Forum), economist and superblogger Nouriel Roubini was the only gloomy voice in the crowd. As Peter Gumbel …
How the KFC Famous Bowl led me to a story
Americans are gluttons. This we know. I have seen the Sunday night buffet at a barbecue joint in Wilson, N.C. I have watched contestants weigh in at 400 lbs.-plus on The Biggest Loser. What’s worse, we pretend we’re not. We gobble up books like Skinny Bitch, a vegan manifesto, and yet 85% of Americans scarf down the fried-meat sandwich …
CapitalistCast: A World Economic Forum in search of a theme
This one was taped in a Davos parking lot. With some camerawork and other excellent assistance from Mrs. Curious Capitalist.
Everybody hates Mitt, office edition
Everybody Hates Romney
is the headline Alternet gives its reprinting of this post by Steve Benen of The Carpetbagger Report. He writes:
A couple of days before the Republicans’ New Hampshire primary, ABC hosted a debate for the GOP field, during which every candidate on the stage attacked Mitt Romney. Huckabee hit him on Iraq,
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Bono recounts his confession to Father Al (Gore)
When Al Gore talks, Bono and Tom Friedman listen
This morning’s big attraction here in Davos was a breakfast in which Bono and Al Gore were supposed to talk about “Combining Solutions to Extreme Poverty and the Climate Crisis.”
Bono noted up front that there’s competition as well as combination: “We have noticed that interest from …
Davos Wednesday photo album
So I’ve been too overwhelmed with dead-tree stuff to report much here today. But I did at least take a few pictures:
A morning shot of, uh, some mountain. Maybe the Jakobshorn?
Davos by night, and a fine Alabama-made vehicle (go American exports!)
Alice Waters, talking about the fine dinner of local goat and stuff she put together
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Where’s my old girls’ network?
Over the years, I’ve heard a lot about a supposed old girls’ network. You know what I mean by this: the old, white men who used to run industry are slowly being joined by a cadre of women who exert similar power.
Take this piece in the Washington Post, by Carrie Johnson, about just such a network in techology.
Fewer women enroll in
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CapitalistCast 2: Life in Davos is hard
Here goes. I know, I’ve got to work on the whole centering-my-face in the screen thing. I should add that Ned Phelps, whom I just met, is a very entertaining guy. Not that I really captured that (or tried to) in the video. But here’s a little sample. George Soros has an opinion piece in today’s FT headlined “The worst market crisis in 60 …
