The knowledge society
John Perry Barlow, sometime songwriter with the Grateful Dead described bullshit as "the grease for the skids upon which we ride into the future." That seems to be an apt description of the "knowledge society", the mantra by which the new economy is known.

A proposal for boosting tax revenues
February is the time when all attention is focused on the finance ministry. The country awaits the budget, which will set the course of the economy for the coming year. This year's budget is probably the most crucial in many years.