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Archive for March, 2008

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My old friend Edward Lucas has written an excellent call to arms, The New Cold War, about the dangers to the West and Russia itself of the country’s fascist turn under Putin. For Europe, in particular, the risks of becoming dependent on a hostile Kremlin through its growing dominance of gas supplies to the continent [...]

Posted 31 Mar 2008 in Blog, Russia
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For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure, check out Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution blog. Combining incisive thoughts about economics, philosophy and everyday life with an incredibly broad cultural canvas, this is my favourite blog by a mile. Hope you enjoy it too.

Posted 31 Mar 2008 in Blog
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at a conference by CEPOS, the Danish Centre for Political Studies, along with George Borjas, an immigration critic at Harvard University. Fingers crossed my flight from Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 is not cancelled..

Posted 31 Mar 2008 in Blog, Denmark, Immigration
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Indians account for 38% of doctors in the US, 36% of scientists at Nasa, and 34% of employees at Microsoft, 28% at IBM and 17% at Intel, Prospect reports, quoting The Times of India, 11/3/8.

Posted 31 Mar 2008 in Blog, Immigration, India, United States