From The Economist, a great financial retrenchment is under way, the product of both market forces and political pressure on banks to lend at home rather than abroad; in other industries globalisation looks harder to unpick; and buoyed up by a crisis and with five presidents in attendance, the international left has ideas for fixing the world that a neoliberal might recognise. From The Ecologist, a hundred years ago, markets ruled — fortunes were made, workers abused, bubbles blown; is it time to change 20th century economic paradigms? From PopMatters, information has never been easier to come by, yet it's never been harder to turn information into knowledge; and a review of Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions by Christian Lander. A review of Cylons in America:

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