• Interest rates hit all-time low

  The Bank of England cuts rates to 1.5%, the lowest level in its 315-year history, as it continues efforts to help the economy.

• Madoff 'had cheques ready to go'

  Bernard Madoff had $173m in cheques in his office desk, ready to send out at the time of his arrest, US prosecutors say.

• US firm in talks to buy Wedgwood

  A US private equity firm is in advanced talks to buy most of iconic china firm Waterford Wedgwood.

• The Future of Apple

  L.A. Times' Michael Hiltzik on blue chip company and its frail-looking CEO.

• Bailout on Ice

  What will be done with the $350 billion in frozen assets?

• CES: Yahoo unveils TV plan

  Jan. 8 - Yahoo Connected TV got a boost of publicity at CES 2009 as Yahoo unveiled a list of HDTV partners.

  
  
  

“To wonder at beauty,
Stand guard over truth,
Look up to the noble,
Decide for the good,


This surely will lead me
To purpose in living,
To right in my actions,
To peace in my feeling,
To clarity in my thinking,


And to teach me to trust
In love and compassion
For all that there is
In the wide, wide world,
And in the depths of my soul.” - Rudolph Steiner

“My Self is threatened to escape, lured by the world's pure light. Let now these intimations come to claim their rightful place, supplanting thinking's power that tends to lose itself in the bright wonder of the senses.” - Rudolph Steiner