petronia

23:53 videos of St Gallen Symposium 2009 keynote speeches: bit.ly/bWuu4 #
23:55 overall topic was "revival of political and economic boundaries" (no one started a hashtag so I'll bite the bullet #stgallen) #
00:04 some notes I took during var. sessions digested down into soundbytes #stgallen #
00:15 E. Mohr: powerful debtor nations when money inflow falls behind foreign debt servicing cost - "national" Ponzi scheme? #stgallen #
00:18 David Smick: "The World Is Dangerously Curved" www.theworldiscurved.com (glad to have made it past Friedman finally ahaha) #stgallen #
00:21 more namechecked books: The Ascent of Money, Three Cups of Tea, Essence of Decision (very much a marketing-free week) #stgallen #
00:22 more Smick: "you can't have Adam Smith's economics without Adam Smith's ethics" #stgallen #
00:24 I wrote here in my notes "I bet Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach loves G. K. Chesterton" #stgallen #
00:29 T. Shanmugaratnam (S'pore) digressed re higher education and competitiveness: "recognizing differences in ability is egalitarian" #stgallen #
00:30 P. Achleitner: "mark to market accounting is a Marxist concept" - rest of talk just as LOLarious if not as alliterative #stgallen #
00:32 more Smick again - just have to note the bit re Obama's head being with Geithner but his heart being with Krugman #stgallen #
00:34 "If a bank is too big to fail, it's too big to bail" vs "If a bank is too big to fail, it's too big" #stgallen #
00:36 S. Banerji: systemic failures bound to happen, how should gov'ts price their /permanent/ roles as lenders of last resort? #stgallen #
00:39 rest can wait til tomorrow methinks, awaiting with interest to see if LoudTwitter horks on all these tweets or not #
00:40 pls help with this quick survey re giving money to musicians: bit.ly/7QZ1T (forgot to tweet it which was obv thing to do!) #