Tag Archives: Greek debt crisis

from whence she came

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

Intentional crisis that got out of hand? Power grab by Germany and will they serve as the patsy of choice again? It’s a shadowy sort of dance we are witnessing in Europe and for many it doesn’t make sense. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged angela merkel hitler daughter, doug saunders globe and mail, francois hollande, Greek debt crisis, horst kasner, indignados movement spain, Jim Rickards, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mark blyth brown university, Max Ernst, oskar schlemmer, Richard Wagner, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

park it on the parthenon: bonds & byzantium

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Dave

Its an object of blame for a crisis that it is not to be blamed for. This idea of north and south is an excuse for invidious comparison: the industrious, virtuous, thrifty north and their slightly darker Mediterranean neighbors to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged European Central Bank, greece exit eurozone, Greek debt crisis, james rickards, James rickards greece, katerina kitidi, lol creme, Lord Byron, Lord Byron greece, lord frederick leighton, mark blyth, mark blyth brown university, megan greene greece, Roubini global economics, trevor horn, yiannis kotsiras | Leave a comment

austerity will set you free

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dave

A Pinata Party. Picking over the carcass. Reena Virk. A girl, fourteen, caught in a deep plunge of self-esteem. She just wanted to be part of the gang. The cool club. But she became a victim of adolescent ritual. Virk … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Angela Merkel, Gottfried Helnwein, Greek debt crisis, james rickards, mark blyth, mark blyth brown university, mimmo rubino, nicole itano, reena virk, reena virk murder, Thorstein Veblen, watson institute, watson institute brown university | Leave a comment

greek debt sponging: lesson 613

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dave

Times are tough.The Greek parliament is pulling a Greek Sneak and taxing those poor folks to their last souvlaki. These are the lean cow years. Or goat if you live on a rocky hill. But all is not lost. Tip … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ernest Hemingway, frog hunting and fishing, frog hunting and fishing quebec, Greek debt crisis, Michael Lewis, Norman Rockwell, Robert Capa, robert capa hemingway, tsimshian, tsimshian carving, william gedney | Leave a comment

play it again zorba: the crocodile cure

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dave

Its a bit ambivalent. Michael Lewis applying the screws to the Greek population. Fatuous moral righteousness with the cruel guile that only Ugly American can muster.A targeted assassination of an un-people. Not that descriptively the proof is in the pudding. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Angela Merkel, Caravaggio, Diego Velasquez, European Central Bank, Greek debt crisis, Honoré Fragonard, johann Baptist Kirner, Larissa porsche owners, Michael Lewis The Big Short, michael lewis vanity fair, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Krugman, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Vallieres, porsche cayenne greece, Sarkozy, THe Eurozone debt crisis | Leave a comment

NO ACCOUNT TO SETTLE IN THE AFTERLIFE: Dionysus Banking System

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Dave

“In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but … Continue reading →