Aug 17 Sweden's Super-Duper Rich By Paul Solman // Update: Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor and Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? to see the first two parts of Paul Solman's ongoing series of reports on U.S. economic… Continue reading
Aug 12 Wealth: How Does the U.S. Slice the Pie? continued Editor's Note | Aug. 17, 2011: The middle pie represents the income distribution of Sweden. For more, see 'Building a Better America--One Wealth Quintile at a Time' by Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton. The correct answer was 'Freedonia'… Continue reading
Oct 07 Thursday's Art Notes By Tom LeGro In today's arts and culture headlines, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading
Sep 20 Sweden's Anti-Immigration Party Gains Toehold in Parliament By Larisa Epatko A political party in Sweden seeking a 90 percent reduction in immigration won seats in Parliament for the first time, denying the ruling center-right coalition a majority and raising questions about anti-Muslim sentiment in the country. Continue reading
May 25 Conversation: 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest' Arrives in U.S. Bookstores By Tom LeGro "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," the third novel in Stieg Larsson's bestselling "Millennium" trilogy, hit U.S. bookstores Tuesday. The crime novels, published originally in Sweden, center around investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, a tattooed and pierced… Continue reading
Jan 13 An Artist's Favorite Authors Get Some Face Time at the Library On a personal quest to bring his father's work to a broader audience, Carl Kohler's son Henry (together with his sister Frida) he approached galleries in hopes that someone would embrace the work, but didn't have any luck. Continue reading
Feb 27 What is the Process for Reprivatization of Banks? Question/Comment: If the banks are nationalized and become healthy again, what is the process for reprivatization? Do stockholders on record as of the date of nationalization have any priorities when the banks are reprivatized? How did Sweden manage this process?… Continue reading