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printing press: deadlier than a guillotine
Money and revolutions. Noted revolutions such as the American, Russian, French and Chinese all needed cash. badly. So they set about manufacturing some. The printing press, it can be stated, is deadlier than the guillotine… There were plenty of men … Continue reading
bank heist: meltdown on the Mississippi
It is really a case of the greater fool hypothesis. That is, no matter how high the price of something gets whipped up in speculative frenzy, there are always others who are willing to pay for it. The Mississippi Bubble … Continue reading
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Tagged Francois Boucher, francois boucher paintings, Greater fool hypothesis, James Turk, John Kenneth Gailbraith, John Law banking and finance, John Law The Mississippi Bubble, John Law The System, Joseph Schumpeter, Lady Catherine Senor, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, max keiser, Philippe d'Orleans
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WEIMAR REPUBLIC and the UNCANNY “SECOND SIGHT”
“A member asked what was the ethos of German Expressionism, suggesting it was ‘cultural despair’. The speaker reiterated his title phrase: ‘an explosive cocktail of cultural despair and political instability’, adding that the German character seemed almost morbid in its … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alma Mahler, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Zuckermayer, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Emil Jannings, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, George J.W. Goodman, Heinrich Mann, Howard Buffet, James Turk, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Proyect, Lyonel Feininger, Marianne Faithfull, Marlene Dietrich, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Otto Dix, Paul Gough, Paul Klee, Peter Rex Valentine, Richard Nixon, Rosa Luxemburg, Seth Taylor, Walter Gropius, Warren Buffet, Wassily Kandinsky
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