Exa accelerates the trading of computing power - and the sledding of its clients Bob, a bobsleigh sled, is a distant relative of a regular sled, but it is built using technologies that are not inferior to space technologies. Behind a sports equipment made of composite materials and fiberglass, rushing along an ice chute at a speed of 130 km/h, a zone of rarefied air is formed, followed by a “storm front” of small vortices.

Investment funds held $2 trillion last year. What happened to this money? Former junior lieutenant of the Finnish Navy Jyrki Talvitie, who now heads the Moscow representative office of the Swedish company East Capital, which manages private equity and portfolio investment funds worth €1.8 billion, sits in the office in the middle of the working day, completely alone, except, of course, girls behind the counter at the front doors. East Capital's business is going through hard times.

Totalitarian nightmares of the 19th century Brodsky wrote: “Why do we need the twentieth century if we already have the nineteenth century.” Indeed, everything that was worst in the century that followed, the world already saw in the nineteenth. The regime of dictator José Gaspar Francia in Paraguay, the prototype of all Latin American caudillos, anticipated fascism. The Taiping state showed what life is like under communism.

The US function is likely to be key again. And not just because they want it themselves As in the good old days, détente between Moscow and Washington begins in the area of ​​strategic arms reduction. This is the best way to get things moving. At the very least, it is useful to remember that Russia and the United States generally know how to negotiate; in the last 15 years, the skills of serious diplomatic work have been largely lost. Something else is alarming.

Twenty years ago, political liberalization began with television. How did this process begin? At the end of 1984, terrible snowfalls hit the Southern Urals, the railway was covered with snow, train traffic had to be interrupted several times, and soldiers were brought in to clear the drifts.

Trading oil is a thing of the past. Gennady Timchenko prefers petroleum products Gennady Timchenko claims that his success in business and acquaintance with Vladimir Putin are in no way connected. They say that Timchenko's company Gunvor, the world's third largest oil trader, simply offers better conditions than its competitors. Is it so?

“If only you knew from what rubbish poetry grows, without knowing shame...” Replace “poems” with “vine” in these Akhmatov lines, translate the verb into the singular, and you won’t be able to say anything more precisely about winemaking. In this craft, which is in Akhmatova’s poems, everything is inappropriate and contrary. “An angry shout, a fresh tar smell, mysterious mold on the wall...” - isn’t this written about a wine cellar?

Enthusiasts are trying to build new auto giants on the ruins of the American automobile industry. But they are already asking for help from the state Henrik Fisker ponders what the car company of the future should be like, even while chewing a chicken sandwich in the cafeteria of the Jacob Javits Center in New York. Everything should be outsourced: the development of technical solutions, components, production...

Oil prices began to rise rapidly - and they forgot about budget reform The most important element of anti-crisis policy is the policy of budget expenditures. For the last 15 years, it has boiled down to two simple options. If there was a lot of income, the government increased spending - usually in proportion to the lobbying power of individual interest groups.

Getting to know the management of companies or banks operating in the bond market allows you to earn hundreds of percent per annum. In Russia this practice is not considered illegal Not all investors lost their earnings during the crisis - for financiers involved in corporate bonds, their finest hour has come. Bonds fall in value if the company that issued them is known to be in trouble.

How to create a team? Director of Russia's largest software company "1C" Boris Nuraliev shares his experience No matter how valuable and talented a person is, if he is a bastard at heart, it is better not to have anything to do with him. When I assembled my very first team - it was still at the design institute of the USSR State Statistics Committee - I took only acquaintances and those whom they recommended.

Forbes tracks the fate of the heroes of its past publications Tasty pledge In the article “At ease” we wrote about Rostislav Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Blanco, a descendant of white emigrants born in Venezuela. Arriving in Russia, he built a restaurant empire from scratch, which includes the Rostik's-KFC chain and the Rosinter Restaurants Holding company (brands Il Patio, Planet Sushi, 1-2-3 Cafe and others).

Smartphone, netbook With shift The Russian alphabet has seven more letters than the English alphabet. Every time a new mobile phone or other compact gadget with a full-text keyboard starts selling in Russia, I wonder with interest where they will put the “extra” letters this time. In the Nokia N97, a smartphone that the Finnish company prefers to call a compact computer, the letters “B” and “Y” in the bottom row of the QWERTY keyboard are on the same keys as “T” and “L”.

The global crisis took most economists by surprise. What can't be said about George Akerlof American consumer sentiment has begun to improve. The multibillion-dollar question: If Americans' confidence in the future continues to rise, should Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan be implemented? Maybe the market will heal itself? Lack of attention to the role that fickle consumer sentiment plays in the economy has worsened the crisis, say economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller.

Only a small number of reforms can generate the necessary resources The experience of the last 10 years has shown that the government is not able to carry out reforms on all fronts. Only for a small number of reforms can the necessary intellectual, material and organizational resources be collected. Therefore, for example, there is no need to fight corruption in general - it is necessary to highlight only a few areas in which corruption should be burned out with a hot iron.