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April 11, 2013 0

Nil Nisi Thatcher

By News Desk

Tweet Many Americans are bewildered by the mixed reception that Baroness Thatcher’s death has received in the United Kingdom.  Having lived in England for a year or so during her time as Prime Minister, Eli will refrain from commenting on her political career, but there was something he wrote over at the Curry Shack that is worth repeating .   Curry posted remarks from Michael Kelly of the Oxburgh panel During Mrs Thatcher’s period as Prime Minister, UK science was squeezed hard, and I would argue came out of it better, leaner and fitter. Like dieting, it is not a healthy permanent state, but its absence is definitely unhealthy. In times of plenty, one ‘lets a thousand flowers bloom’ and in tough times, one redoubles the effort to exploit the stock of recently acquired new knowledge, rather than generate more new knowledge and leave it unexploited.

July 23, 2012 0

IMF Seeks to Halt Aid to Greece; September Bankruptcy Awaits; Dominoes Will Fall

By News Desk

According to Der Spiegel, the IMF Wants to Stop Aid to Greece as soon as the ESM is up and running in September. At that time Greece would become bankrupt. This is a Mish-modified translation from German: The patience of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with Greece comes to an end: According to to information obtained by SPIEGEL, senior IMF officials told EU leaders in Brussels that the IMF was no longer willing to provide additional funds for Greece