From chronic disease to the fall of the US$: how the whole world is connectedAn amazing interactive look from the World Economic Forum at how intertwined all the major world risks in 2010 are. From the cost and likelihood of technological errors to environmental disasters, see the real world examples of cause and effect.
Risk
Risk makes it to the big screen
Remember Risk, that classic strategic childhood board game? Well, Sony has acquired the rights for a film version of the game. It may not have a clear narrative, but the game was created by a film maker.
Don’t want risky business? Hire women
Banks should recruit more ladies in this messy GFC world. Women are better money managers, aren’t as overconfident and don’t have the pumping levels of testosterone that encourage risk taking. But will feminisation mean less pay?
John Quiggin: The risk society, part four
In the fourth part of a serialised paper first published by the Centre for Policy Development, University of Queensland economist John Quiggin writes that an improved understanding of risk can contribute to the development of a modernised social democratic model.
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Enough is enough on Haneef … the poll swing … resurrecting the Senate … CASA’s cone of silence … Labor is not a party of reform … MacBank’s millionaires …
Plenty worse from whence Bridgecorp came
With the Australian arm of Bridgecorp following its Kiwi subsidiary into administration, ASIC if facing the further embarrassment of more high-yield debenture collapses just waiting to happen.
