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inflation: wandering hands on the tiller
Few would deny that our own political system may also be put seriously at risk by inflation. Every politician, every party, has some cure to sell to the electorate. Everybody promises solutions, but none of them works because the inflationary … Continue reading
price anxiety
One of the fascinating consequences of an inflationary world is the strong emotions it generates for material objects. Although it does promote competitive buying of intrinsically valuable goods, from houses to jewels, it also provokes a hatred of waste. Rather, … Continue reading
breaking up is hard to do….
The Minsky Moment. That precise moment comes after a long period of prosperity and a climbing value of investments, which has fired the passion for greed resulting in increasing amounts of speculation using borrowed money. The kind of mentality that … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ben Bernanke, Charles De La Tour, Dodd-Frank banking reform, George F. Will, Harvey Rosenblum, Hyman Minsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Minsky Moment, Paul Volcker, quentin metsys, Richard Fisher Dallas Fed, William Henry Venables Vernon
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fiscal cliffs and financial stiffs
…The end is near. Doomsday scenario targeting that source of perennial anxiety and trauma: The management of the American economy; now in terms of integrity officially in a recession, a double-dipper with the entire money and banking system, the money … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Dai Dudu, Fiscal Cliff United States, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, Hieronymous Bosch, James Rickards currency wars, Li Tiezi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Krugman, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Winslow Homer, Zhang An
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cartoon messiah: a walt misery construction
…A struggle between the divine and the mythical, Jacob and the Angel as point of departure and building block for a political struggle that of necessity and consequence collides and challenges the established law. Since the beginning, there has always … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism David Graeber, Ben Bernanke, Bob Dylan, Christopher Nolan, David Graeber, david graeber guardian, Max Horkheimer, Milton Glaser, Sigmund Freud, TD Canada Trust, TD Money Lounge, TD Money Lounge Canada, Theodor Adorno, Umberto Eco, Walter Nejamin, Wayne Gretzky
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Broke bank: ballads of bonnie and clyde
Its a type of calling. A kind of priesthood. Except the fire and brimstone has been replaced metaphorically by the Biblical intonations of the high priests of economics. They have either found them and dusted them off from a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Griffith, don knotts, federal reserve board, Gov. Rick Perry, Humphrey Bogart, Jim Rickards, John Heartfield, michael oher, Serge Gainsbourg, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud rat man, the blind side movie, W.C. Fields, Walter Benjamin
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forty lashes just for a warmup
Does the logic of postmodern capitalism no longer work, all the structural Ponzi’s coming home to roost, starting with the subjugated marginals like Greece and moving inexorably into the more bleached white domains of the Occidental heartland. All bubble eventually pop … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Greenspan, Andrew Potter, Ben Bernanke, chantal hebert, James Gillray, John Heartfield, John Maynard Keynes, joseph heath, joseph heath rebel sell, Max Horkheimer, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Pat Buchanan, Rick Salutin, robert c. clark, Stephen Harper, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Rowlandson, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin
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revolution is a trademark
Revolution is a registered trademark of Adidas. Revolution is a brand. The love beads, the Afro, it reproduces itself in new contexts continuously reinventing itself; the P.R. machine working on heavy rotation to secure the minds and souls of the … Continue reading
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Tagged african monetary fund, Ben Bernanke, british PM David Cameron Libya, carrie bradshaw, chaloub group, eni oil company, francois-henri pinault, greg muttitt war on want, IMF, jean-paul pougala, jeff jetton, john rees stop the war coalition, Libya gold reserves, libyan revolution, louis vuitton arab world, louis vuitton middle east, nato mission libya, NATO operation siren, Noam Chomsky, noam chomsky middle east, patrick chaloub, sarah jessica parker, stop the war coalition
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segregated bus
Convoke the Committee for Un-American Activities. Revoke the Civil Rights Act. Was Obama’s crime to be on a white’s only bus? Or, you would think he was reveling with Neal Cassady and Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on their … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, ben bernanke treason, Ben Kingsley Fagin, gig veres, Gov. Rick Perry, greg lynn shark fountain, greg lynn toy story, hemphill brothers coach company nashville, Karl Rove, Ken Kesey, kinky friedman, merry pranksters, Neal Cassady, nelson george new york times, obama canadian bus, prevost bus, rupert cornwell, Stephen Harper, the help movie
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