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Jul 12 2007 12:00am EDT

Thursday Links Barely Manage

John Carney says that bosses should sever their connection to the internet. Jon Corzine takes his advice.

Blackstone is officially worth more than 13 times as much as Lazard. Cue merger talk.

How did S&P's possible downgrade of $12.08 billion in bonds become S&P's possible downgrade of $7.35 billion in bonds? Tanta wants answers.

How to make cities slicker. (Via Kevin Maney)

Ranking countries by the quality of their managers. Does Italy really have better management than the UK? I'd love to see Lance Knobel's take on this paper. (Update: Lance's take.)

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