Comment: Public parks nurture private wealth, The young are b...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Thursday December 05 2013     Comment   Public parks nurture private wealth   Cities have a duty to the wider population to ensure that such works amount to more than a benefit scheme for one segment       The young are being squeezed by the old   Employers forced to make good on final salary promises they thought were costless are having to find the money from somewhere     India out of the woods but far from safe   The starry-eyed optimism of just a few years ago when Indians talked about growing faster than China is as though from another era     A sceptic on drones and digital shopping   Amazon's aerial vehicles may even have keys to the front door, provided by the NSA, so you don't have to pick up a wet box from the doorstep     Innovation requires state support   Growth and innovation require the kind of committed finance that lay behind Silicon Valley companies, and is today behind the likes of Huawei     What price happiness?   The pursuit of happiness has not stopped Bhutan from frantic urbanisation. GNH has not been forgotten, but he no longer dominates policy making     Cloud price war bad news for IT stalwarts   Moves by cloud groups to lower the price of the basic computing capacity that they offer will determine the fate of much of the IT industry     China stands to lose in island spat   Beijing has much to lose in its battle to gain control of uninhabited islands, administered by Japan, as it seeks to strengthen its regional hold     US faces cash flood from world's savers   Too much saving means too much investment for the world as a whole: no export surplus can serve as a safety valve, as it can for individual countries         Opinion   An astonishing, but very British, recovery   The vicious circle linking low growth and high budget deficits, so prominent for the past three years, has been transformed into a virtuous circle – for now       Time to create a new oil major   Given decent assets and good management a competitor would attract capital because energy remains a fundamentally strong business which will not go away         Manage email    Forward this email   Feedback    Manage portfolio Subscribe to the FT Follow the FT   Unsubscribe | My Account | RSS | Privacy Policy | About Us | Help   © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. This email was sent by a company owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 53723.