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Tag Archives: Bob Diamond Barclays
a rising tide sinks all ships
The velocity of money. a rising tide sinks all ships. That is, capitalism and democracy have always had an uneasy relationship. They are not partners naturally suited to one another for the most part. Something of an artificial idea; like … Continue reading →
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, Bob Diamond Barclays, Gauss Kaspersky Lab, Georges de La Tour, Harry K. Thaw, Joe Nocera, jon corzine, joseph heath, LIBOR scandal Barclays Bank, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MF Global scandal, Oscar Wilde, Peregrine Financial Group, Russell Wasendorf Sr., Standard Chartered scandal Iran, Stanford White, William Burroughs
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quick buck: leaky platform
Of course it looks suspicious. And it always is suspicious. And where there’s smoke there’s fire. But thats the game. It’s easy to criticize from the outside, especially if you have a government job, employment security, and iron-clad pension. The … Continue reading →
muse and the economy
Or is it the economy and the muse? When individuals are fighting tooth and nail for a living, they look on the arts as a thing apart. Has our affluent society today carried over some of this disdain into a … Continue reading →
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
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Tagged Andy Warhl business art, Andy Warhol, Arnold Hauser, Bob Diamond Barclays, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, David Geffen art collection, Donald and Mera Rubells, Donald Kuspit, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Gustav Klimt, Hobbema, Jan Steen, jeffrey deitch, Jerry Saltz, john singleton copley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, Peter Plagens, Steven A. Cohen, Timothy Geithner, Van Goyen painter, willem de Kooning, Winslow Homer
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knocking on the cones of silence
How did we get into this mess and is there any way to get out? We seem to be on the precipice of nihilism. A triumph of destruction.The final trashing of sound values and tradition. Everything as a giant ponzi … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andy Warhol Mao Zedong, Bernie Madoff, Bob Diamond Barclays, Charles Bronson, Don Adams Get Smart, Franz Kafka, Franz Munterfering, Get Smart Cone of Silence, LIBOR rate fixing scandal, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides Treatise on Logic, Mao Zedong, Marcel Duchamp, Marcus Agius, mark blyth brown university, Maxwell Smart, Michael Moore, Nouriel Roubini, paul raffaele, Walter Benjamin
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dial m for money
and manipulation. A nice cozy complicity. How to understand Bob Diamond? Maybe he rose to his level of incompetence. Or, perhaps we can compare Diamond to what writer Jean Genet once said said about himself, that the only thing he … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Diamond Barclays, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Jean Genet, LIBOR scandal Barclays Bank, Marshall McCluhan, Patrick Jenkins Financial Times, Paul Tucker Bank of England, Paul Verlaine, Pecora Commission, Peter Lorre, Philip Augar
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rate fetish: the price is right
…Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes part of the ceremony. Kafka, Parables and … Continue reading →
can kicking with operation twist : i’m with stupid
An unfolding drama in which the answer to be found may be in not what is said. The Anglo-American financial system as Marcel Marceau mime.How else to explain the world apart, the disjunct between words and action , or lack … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bart Chilton, Bernie Madoff, Bob Diamond Barclays, Buster keaton, Chris Lucas Barclays, LIBOR fixing scandal, LIBOR scandal Barclays Bank, London Interbank offered rate scandal, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel marceau, Peter Madoff, tom wesselmann
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