Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
Pettis on Debt, Currency Wars, Commodity Prices and Capital Flight; China FDI Contracts 8.7% YoY, 8th Drop in 9 Months The much-denied hard landing in China is now underway with weakening data everywhere one looks.
Originally posted here: Germany 6% Current Account Surplus a "Threat to the Continent" Says EU Commission; Solution is Gold Coupled…
The Guillotine Drops A few weeks ago, before Joe Paterno’s statue was removed, Eli wrote in a post entitled Death Penalty Eli, as some have noted, is an ancient professor, an academic if you will. He has followed the collapse of governance at Penn State with the interest of a bunny watching a disaster unveiled, and recently saw much back and forth about the NCAA (the folks who profit from and do the pompous on intercollegiate athletics in the US) imposing the death penalty on football at PSU.
Read the original post: Shaw makes that piece of ebony smoke like a cigar
Ultimately," she says, "I’m responsible for my own behavior." Esquire has a long article about the Alberta Tar Sands which is a worthy weekend’s reading. As an introduction John Richardson, the author puts it rather plainly In Canada, I learned that my entire approach to life is wrong. I tend to trust and believe in the responsible people who are fair-minded and try to see both sides of an issue.
Eli Rabett 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
