December 2009
18 posts
The Big Zero →
Let’s bid a not at all fond farewell to the Big Zero the decade in which we achieved nothing and learned nothing.
Tidings of Comfort →
Imperfect as it is, the health care reform bill, which will likely become a law, will make America a better country.
Latest in Financial Innovation: the Goldman Sachs...
Goldman Sachs threatens UK to move 20% of its City staff to Spain, the Independent reports. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/goldman-sachs-threatens-spanish-move-1845582.html This little blackmail (“If you tax me, I dump you”) is part of a move to negotiate avoiding special taxes on bonuses, which turn out to be as little palatable as bad Fish’n Chips. It...
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Longtemps, quand les blessures...
In Regulation We Trust? →
LONDON – From next year, on swearing allegiance to the Queen, all members of Britain’s House of Lords – and I am one of them – will be required to sign a written commitment to honesty and…
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Some frivolities to read over the next month might...
Some Food for thoughts over Christmas and New Year: > Worldly Philosophers – Heilbroner A classic: The book was written in 1953 and has sold more than four million copies through seven editions. (The only other economics book to sell more copies is Paul Samuelson’s textbook Economics.). Galbraith called it “a brilliant achievement”. I’d better read it then… > the Selfish...
A Dangerous Dysfunction →
The difficulty of trying to pass health care reform shows how dysfunctional the Senate, and the U.S. government as a whole, has become.
Pass the Bill →
The current health care bill falls a long way short of ideal, but it is better than anything that seemed possible just a few years ago.
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Paradigm shift before your eyes: Pearltrees (geek...
It’s f**cking awesome, it’s smart, it looks good, it’s got a great future and it’s French.
The A380? The latest Veuve Clicquot packaging? The TGV?… nope… Pearltrees.
Here is something which could not only be the next web killer app, but a pretty good insight into the future of the internet: Pearltrees.com
I posted a review focusing on the relevance of the...
Disaster and Denial →
The Republican Party won’t face up to the reality of what happened to the U.S. economy. So it’s up to the Democrats.
Bernanke’s Unfinished Mission →
Sustained high unemployment is a recipe for immense human suffering. The Federal Reserve must start lending a hand to job creation.
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Guns don't kill people, Bankers do.
like a vague feeling of deja-vu… Bloomsberg.com reports that the church of the Holly Free Market fears for its future and might be on the way to adopt the Bumper-sticker slogan of NRA supporters. (Guns don’t kill people, people do). Great Priest Henry Paulson (You might remember him. He had an alibi-job as US Treasury secretary at some point) testified to US Congress this summer...
the WallStreetJournal is now reporting on Wall...
After all the recent Australian politics, time for a break… back to Ameereeka… The invisible hand of Wall Street is no longer driving America in a positive direction, writes Paul B. Farrell in the WSJ, MarketWatch. On the contrary, TGTF (too greedy to fail) banks are undermining democracy and capitalism. And you can’t call him an anarcho-liberal. He lists 15 symptoms of a...
An Affordable Truth →
History shows that cap-and-trade, a system specifically designed to bring the power of market incentives to bear on environmental problems, does work.
Reform or Else →
Those concerned with fiscal responsibility should be worried about what will happen if proposed health care legislation doesn’t pass.
November 2009
25 posts
Translation of Slate.fr article : how the Party...
This post is the - quick and dirty best effort in a few minutes - translation of the original article published by Nicolas Vanbremeersch ( @versac ) in Slate.fr (French) (http://www.slate.fr/story/13599/fallait-il-expulser-lefebvre-de-twitter-pas-evident)
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Lefebvre did not spend a long time excluded from Twitter
How the spokesman for the French Right Wing presidential party (UMP)...
