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Bourse 24 French Bourse24 English Gouvernance d’entrepriseL’ article de M. Ezra Klein « Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France ? » ( Washington Post 3 mars 2012 cliquez ici pour le lire) soulève des questions aussi fondamentales qu’intéressantes. Notant qu’en 2009, les dépenses de santé aux Etats-Unis se montaient à $ 7,960 par personne alors qu’en France elles n’étaient [...]
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Wednesday,walking through Central Park with my friend Nicholas D. chatting merrily,if somewhat loudly,in French about the role of France in the concert of Nations a lady ,looking remakably like the New York Public Library librarian in Ghostbusters, and,like her ,a librarian ,stops us ,apologizing profusely for the interruption ,to ask us in very good French,if [...]
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The celebration of Valentine’s Day on February 14 provides us with an opportunity to think about the symbolism of the pagan festivals that were taken over by the Church. Today, Valentine’s Day is the symbol of lovers, thus, indirectly, the symbol of fertility. According to tradition, Roman Emperor Claudius the Cruel had banned marriages amongst [...]
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Tel est le titre d’un récent article paru dans L’Express sur lequel une aimable lectrice a bien voulu attirer notre attention. Au moment où les Français de l’Est des Etats-Unis s’apprêtent à voter, la lecture de cet article –cliquez ici pour le lire—incite à la réflexion.
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In this weekend’s New York Times Magazine, Guy Deutscher, author of “Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages”, reviewed the current state of research to answer the question:” Does your Language Shape How You Think?” Mr.Deutscher gives interesting examples showing that language does indeed compel the speakers to express thoughts [...]
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L’académicien Michel Serres, professeur à Stanford, vient de publier un nouveau livre,Temps des Crises, dont le sous-titre est : « Mais que révèle le séisme financier et boursier qui nous secoue aujourd’hui ? » Canal Académie nous propose d’écouter l’entretien de Michel Serres avec Jacques Paugam. Dans celui-ci, le philosophe note que la proportion maintenant très réduite [...]
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Mercredi 17 fevrier 2010, l’émission quotidienne ,L’heure des comptes,de Radio Canada m’a interrogé sur le bilan du plan de relance américain après une année. Pour écouter cette entrevue cliquez ici.
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Many, especially on Capitol Hill, find it convenient to blame Greenspan for the financial crisis from which we are barely emerging. The argument runs thusly: the combination of very cheap money policies and of deregulation so fervently adopted by Geenspan brought about the housing bubble, the subprime mess and assorted financial debacles. Is this line [...]
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Si vous voulez comprendre les aspects à la fois festifs et rigoureux de cette grande fête juive , écoutez l’explication qu’en fait le grand Rabbin Haïm Korsia, aumônier général israélite de l’armée française , sur Canal Académie.Comme lui,souhaitons Shana Tovah à tous nos amis juifs.
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On July 27,2009,I posted a note ( below: Rémunération des cadres bancaires : les $100 millions d’Andrew Hall ) on the debate raging around Andrew Hall’s right to a $ 100 million bonus,the topic now of David Segal’s front page article in Sunday’s New York Times ( August 2,2009) .In my note I stated that [...]
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Le débat continue de faire rage.Cette fois, il s’agit de la rémunération d’Andrew Hall, patron de la division Phibro de Citigroup.Celui-ci, contractuellement devrait toucher $100 millions au titre de l’exercice 2009.Cette perspective n’est pas au goût de Ken Feinberg, le tsar des traitements de cadres de sociétés aidées par le gouvernement. D’ou la relance du [...]
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As Congress starts debating the Obama health care plan, an incursion into history may be in order. Years ago, in 1961,the Democrats proposed a form of socialized medicine. Concerned citizens mounted Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine and then private citizen Ronald Reagan spoke out ( here) against socialized medicine in terms that all [...]
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Dans l’essai “Tolérance, révérence et dhimmitude”,que vous trouverez dans la section Op Ed de ce journal, j’ai tenté´de répondre à la question : le monde musulman est-il capable de traiter le monde non-musulman avec un respect mutuel. Le discours prononcé à la mosquée Al-Hussein bin Talal d’Amman le 9mai par Sa Sainteté le Pape Benoît [...]
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In my essay “Tolerance, reverence and dhimmitude” ,see below,I examined whether the Muslim world is capable of dealing with non-Muslims with “mutual respect”. The Pope’s speech today at the Al Hussein bin Talal mosque in Amman, Jordan, reproduced below, is brilliant and deeply perceptive in the points he makes. The ball is now squarely in [...]
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On Sunday May 9, 2009 the BBC Forum (listen here) convened Lord Robert May, former scientific adviser to the British government, Gillian Tett, financial analyst and social anthropologist, and Abraham Verghese, doctor and author. Lord May showed how a very simple equation can be used to create a situation of chaos. His analysis, applicable to [...]
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Interested in the differences between American and British usage? If yes ,then do read Roger Cohen‘s delightful piece “Of Loos and Language”.Several years ago, Lynn Truss, the former host of the BBC Radio 4′s Cutting a Dash programme published an equally delightful book:Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation whose title derives [...]
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During his trip to Europe,President Obama stated on several occasions [1]that his policy towards the Muslim world was going to be based on “mutual respect” going so far as to state in his speech to the European Parliament that he was going to show respect by “changing our language and our tone ” in our [...]
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Au cours de son voyage en Europe, le président Obama a déclaré à plusieurs reprises [1] que sa politique vis-à-vis du monde musulman allait dorénavant être fondée sur un “respect mutuel” allant même à Strasbourg jusqu’à dire qu’il fallait pour montrer ce respect “changer notre langage et notre ton” à l’égard du monde musulman. M.Obama [...]
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Les élections à l’Assemblée des Français de l’Etranger (AFE) semblent susciter des convoitises bien mises en relief dans le récent article de French Morning intitulé : « Embouteillage pour l’Assemblée des Français de l’étranger » qu’un de mes amis banquier a eu la gentilesse de me signaler.A lire, en particulier les commentaires de Mme Nike!
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The recent publication of Robert Cohen’s book “Turning Around a Bank in Korea: A Business and Cultural Challenge” got me thinking. Here was a Frenchman, who after a distinguished 25-year career at the old Credit Lyonnais (now Calyon after some Executive Life troubles that got it absorbed by France’s “Green Bank”, Caisse Nationale du Crédit [...]
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Amid all the otherwise legitimate furor over the A.I.G. bonuses,it is refreshing ,and useful,to see the contract law framework for a good legal analysis set out by well regarded law professors such as Charles Fried of Harvard :see When Bonus Contracts Can Be Broken Contracts Now Seen as Being Rewritable For an update on the [...]
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