Elsewhere on Monday,
- Are Chinese statistics manipulated? A World Bank-er says no.
- Wine, not cider, hit hardest by Darling’s tax rise.
- Taleb is on an internet diet. Side effect: ‘harmony with [his] genes’.
- Want to improve your Excel skills? Learn Access.
- On cognitive biases and the judgment of global risks.
- Who had the best box at the Hong Kong Sevens 2010?
- Deeply meta: a periodic table of…periodic tables.
- What happens when envy dominates greed.
- The real reason Wall Street II was bumped.
- The Japanese consumer is showing signs of life.
- What a real recovery looks like (and why the US likely won’t have one).
- Further, further reading.