Month: June 2013

German Constitutional Court to Rule Whether ECB Actions Violate German Law; Irrelevant Arguments and Outright Lies; Dangerous Games
June 11, 2013 0

German Constitutional Court to Rule Whether ECB Actions Violate German Law; Irrelevant Arguments and Outright Lies; Dangerous Games

By News Desk

The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, heard arguments on Tuesday on whether ECB measures to contain the eurozone crisis violate German law. The court does not have the power to block the ECB, but it does have the power to restrict German participation in various funding schemes. The New York Times dramatically states German Court Debates Fate of Euro

Chinese Economy Grows at Slowest Pace in 13 Years; What’s Next for China?
June 10, 2013 0

Chinese Economy Grows at Slowest Pace in 13 Years; What’s Next for China?

By News Desk

Inquiring minds note the growth slowdown in China: China’s economy stumbles in May, growth seen sliding in Q2 . China’s economy grew at its slowest pace for 13 years in 2012 and so far this year economic data has surprised on the downside, bringing warnings from some analysts that the country could miss its growth target of 7.5 percent for this year. “Growth remains unconvincing and the momentum seems to have lost pace in May,” Louis Kuijs, an economist at RBS, said in a note

Guess I’ll repeat the obvious – this national security panopticon thing is a problem
June 10, 2013 0

Guess I’ll repeat the obvious – this national security panopticon thing is a problem

By News Desk

Even though I trust Obama far more than Bush, I don’t trust him or the hundreds of other people with access to total information about everything (slight exaggeration) to use it sparingly and only for good. And while I don’t like to assume facts for which we have no evidence, the recent disclosures of government spying seem unlikely to be the only spying that’s done on the general public. No abuses of the information have been disclosed, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened, and given enough time and enough people with access to the information, we can assume it will happen at some point

Get A Job
June 10, 2013 0

Get A Job

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Sunday, June 09, 2013 Posted by EliRabett Rabett Run Subscribe Rabett Run Posts Posts Comments Comments Contributors Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves