Tag Archives: Nouriel Roubini

promise them anything

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Dave

Birds entrails, the stars in the heavens, crystal balls: people have resorted to all these and more in an effort to foretell the future. Today of course, with business have market capitalizations in the billions, there are no soothsayers in … Continue reading →

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games without frontiers

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Dave

Its a bit shocking and easy to ridicule. Giving the Nobel Prize for Peace to the European Union! It can be perceived as a black comedy. Dr. Caligari. After all, Europe of the recent past and its colonial and imperialist … Continue reading →

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knocking on the cones of silence

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Dave

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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dragons and dungeons

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Dave

A clash of civilizations? Certainly an odd juxtaposition; the people of the book, the covenant on Mt. Sinai with the people outside the pale of settlement with any monotheistic religion. But, on a social and cultural level, China is a country … Continue reading →

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the wandering doomster

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Dave

A mission laying with being errant. In error and wandering. The nomadic life. Otherness as a catalyst for the creative impulse; a perpetual otherness which lacks any clear sense of home. Of firm footing. The true mission: to be a … Continue reading →

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crystal ball: the greatest show on earth

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Dave

Forecasting. Prediction. Tea leaves and tarot cards. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. But which opinions are actually credible. In terms of economics and market prognostication there is more credibility given to those who have been correct in … Continue reading →

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London calling : just leave a message

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Dave

To the overwhelming majority of Brits, of all races, creeds and colors, well off or in poverty, a fundamental change in social structure, is probably just as unthinkable as it was to those English citizens in the eighteenth-century. But, as … Continue reading →

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the lost decade: a hang five for prosperity

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Dave

Socially, politically and economically, we are entering uncharted waters. We appear to be at the cusp on some major transformations. The issues are rather complex, seemingly beyond the comprehension  of the present crew of economic advisers. The result is a … Continue reading →

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ADAM SMITH & PONZI NATION: WEALTH OF RATIONS

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dave

Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776 – not as a textbook, but as a polemical cannon aimed at governments that were subsidizing and protecting their merchants, their farmers, their manufacturers, against “unfair” competition, at home or from … Continue reading →

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