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...government life support. Jürgen Stark, a board member of the European Central Bank (ECB), recently estimated that financial institutions operating in Europe alone are facing total losses of around $650 billion between 2007 and 2010 - and have so far written down less than half of that amount in their books. "There is no room for complacency," he said, warning that extraordinary government and central-bank bailout measures "cannot be sustained forever...
...financial services industry braces for tougher oversight, it's keeping its fingers crossed. "There's a lot of wariness about all forms of financial market activities and that's perfectly understandable," says Richard Metcalfe, global head of policy at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. "There's a huge amount of political pressure to do things. Let's do it in a way that is intelligent." (See "Turning Point for the Global Recession...
...years is a long time on the Internet - longer than Wikipedia has even existed. Michael Snow, the foundation's chairman, says he's got a "fair amount of confidence" that Wikipedia will go on. It remains a precious resource - a completely free journal available to anyone and the model for a mode of online collaboration once hailed as revolutionary. Still, Wikipedia's troubles suggest the limits of Web 2.0 - that when an idealized community gets too big, it starts becoming dysfunctional. Just like every other human organization...
...What would you do to reform health care? -Leslie Gillis, Arlington, Mass. I'd get the government out of the way. It's so important that the maximum number of people get the maximum amount of care. The harder the subject is - the more difficult, the more complicated - the more you need the marketplace...
...feel about the way you were shown in the Sacha Baron Cohen film Brüno? -Matthew Thacker, Bowling Green, Ohio I don't feel good about it because I was the subject of a trick, and nobody likes to be tricked. I understand they're not making a tremendous amount of money off this movie, so maybe the American people aren't as cynical as they assumed. (Watch the conversation with Ron Paul...