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President Obama has acknowledged the success of the Swedish model, but he says that “cultural differences” and the relative complexity of our banking system make the model unfit for America. However, only the 19 biggest banks would be up for government receivership. Moreover, keep in mind that the FDIC takes over small banks all the time. Even Alan Greenspan, the image of free-market capitalism as Federal Reserve chairman from 1987 to 2006, has acknowledged that, “once in a hundred years, this is what you do.” Now is certainly...
...says. “I think it gives me an opportunity to come in and make an immediate impact.”It probably doesn’t hurt knowing that he could be taking shooting drills on American goalkeeping legend Kasey Keller or participating in position drills alongside Swedish great Freddie Ljungberg. The two international stars have played for English giants Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, respectively, and each player has captained his country.“It’s very cool to wear the same uniform and share a locker room with guys like that...
...cutting edge of retail has left North America. Look at the retail thinking that happens outside the US. For example, people are thinking about what it means when a customer uses public transportation and then shops. So there's a Swedish supermarket chain where you can shop at lunchtime, and put your purchases in a refrigerated locker. When you go home after work, you just stop off, pick up your bags, climb on the train and go home...
...Google News site. So far, though U.S. courts have sided with the search engine company, courts in other countries have seen it differently. Google lost a copyright case in Belgium brought by a consortium of photographers and journalists in 2007, and other suits are likely to proliferate. And while Swedish court decisions won't have any binding effect on cases in the U.S. or other countries, what happens in Stockholm is expected to become a bellwether in the ongoing fight over who owns the information on the Internet, especially given that Sweden, like the U.S., has tightened its anti-piracy...
...certainly don't see them as romantic pirates: It's out and out theft," John Kennedy, top executive of the international music industry body IFPI, told The Guardian. Big-name artists, too, have weighed in. Prince has threatened to sue, and this week one of the founders of the Swedish super group ABBA denounced the site as a gift to those who want to be "lazy and mean." "It is easier and cheaper to steal than to download legally." Bjorn Ulvaeus wrote in an online Swedish op-ed. "Is it really so damn difficult to pay your...