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flowers in the dirt poor
Economic bubbles are nothing new. It seems that any unchecked enthusiasm in life in whatever sphere eventually gets pulled down by gravity. The bubble, almost universally seems to be maintained by ignoring our own private information and being guided by … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bernard Madoff, Dutch Tulip Bubble, Frans Hals, hendrik gerritsz, hendrik gerritsz pot, jan bruegel, jan brueghel the elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Matt Taibbi, michael lewis vanity fair, sub-prime mortgage crisis
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guess who’s coming to dinner
I think we can think of the entire financial system and its offpring: the derivatives market, forex, commodities exchanges, invisible transactions, etc. as one giant haunted house or horrors. Like something out of Kafka’s The Castle; its mysterious, it holds … Continue reading
voltaire banking on the philosopher kings: wall street shuffle
“He taught us to be free.” Although he was an absolutist, not especially reasonable, and anything but a revolutionary, Voltaire fought absolutism, embodies the Age of Reason, and made the Revolution inevitable. He died at the dawn of the industrial … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Conrad Black, dale farm essex, dale farm travellers, Denis Diderot, Elizabeth Renzetti, gene sharp, grattan puxon, irish travellers, jean huber, Jean Jacques Rousseau, john b. judis, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, maurice sendak bumble-ardy, Michael Lewis The Big Short, millionaires march, occupy wall street, President Andrew Jackson, Rupert Murdoch, Voltaire
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$$$ from pigale to palace: origins of the hustle
There is always a fascination with the role of the past and how quickly it fades into oblivion. The actors and contexts may change, but there is always an unseen hand, proffering the levers that mechanically set in motion the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged agnes varda, Alain Resnais, anny duperey, Bernard Madoff, clemenceau, Francois Truffaut, jacques demy, Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean-Luc Godard, jorge semprun, Léon Blum, Leon Trotsky, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, serge alexander stavisky
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Dix & threepenny opera: an explicit body politic
The classic Bertolt Brecht question was an examination of the inconceivable; two forces in which it was not possible to reconcile: how can people be dignified and ethical under capitalism? The stock market as a Three-Penny Opera. The petty thieving, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Hare, Edwin Black, Fassbinder, Francis Galton, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jack Morgan, James Watson, John Carney, Kurt Weill, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Craig Blankfein, Matt Taibbi, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, Pecora Commission, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Randy Newman, T.S. Eliot, Toulouse-Lautrec
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theatre of the union: logos, pathos & a dog called sputnik
Do we call the Obama speech, his state of the union address, a seizing of the Sputnik moment. We have had Minsky moments, but a Sputnik moment? Or is this just another example of those pointy headed white intellectuals lecturing … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Anderson Cooper, Ari Fleischer, Aristotle, Byron York, David Gergen, Douglas Brinkley, Elizabeth Maupin, Jacques Ranciere, Jimm Lasser, Kubrick, Matt Taibbi, Obama, Obama State of the Union, Peter Aldhous, Plato, Stanley Kubrick
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ZOMBIE BANKS, BUBBLE BATHS & EPITAPHS
Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain, And the deputy grabbed his gun; In the fight that followed He laid that deputy down. Then he took to the trees and timber To live a life of shame; Every crime in Oklahoma … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Chapman, Bank for International Settlements, Billy Bragg, Bonnie and Clyde, D.H. Lawrence, David Allan Coe, Debrahlee Lorenzana, Ferdinand Pecora, Gene Hackman, Henry Paulson, Jaime Caruna, Jennifer Peltz, John Greenwood Reuters, John Paulson, Joseph Zigman, Josh Waletzky, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Nuremberg War Crimes, Pecora Commission, Robert H. Jackson, Rolling Stone Magazine, Sandra Schulberg, Senator Carl Levin, Senator Claire McCaskill, Stuart Schulberg, the byrds roger mcguinn, Victor Juhasz, Warren Beatty, Wilco, Woody Guthrie
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PINOCCHIO,PROFITS & PEE WEE: ''another NICE mess''
At the G20 Summit in Toronto last week, the major accomplishment was the agreement on the ”Toronto Consensus”, which proclaimed in light of the Tsunami of fiscal stimulus hosed into a river of existing, and backlogged promises to spend, these … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Alexander Berkman, Allen Stanford, Anarchism, Anarchists, Angela Merkel, Bakunin, Ben Bernanke, Bernard Madoff, Black Bloc, Chen Wenling, David Letterman, Director James Horne, Fabians, Fabrice Tourre, Gandhi, Gandhi Groupies, Hal Roach Studios, Henry Clay, Henry Clay Economist, Henry Fonda, John Ibbitson, John Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill, Lady Gaga, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Mark Rothko, Matt Taibbi, Mikhail Bakunin, Neil Reynolds, New York magazine Steve Fishman, Oliver Hardy, Pee Wee Herman, Peter Hodson, Pinocchio, PVM Oil Futures Limited, Reginald Rose, Roberto Benigni, Rolling Stone Magazine, Scott kauffman ThinkGeek, Sidney Lumet, Sprott Asset Management, Stan Laurel, Stephen Perkins, Steve Fishman, The Daily Bail, ThinkGeek, Tom Cruise, Toronto Consensus G20, Zoe Brennan
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