Tag Archives: Paul Krugman

hotel player piano

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Dave

A largely automated hotel, a luggage storing robot, and automatic check in desk with self-service touch screens. The future is here and its getting restless. Our love hate relationship with technology probably goes back to the Platonic idea of the … Continue reading →

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mega millions for all

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Dave

John Law. He rescued France from ruin, then ruined her again by basing prosperity on credit with the famous Mississippi bubble. He showed us how the future could not work: today’s examples would be the tech bubble of 2000, the … Continue reading →

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romney care: tax evasives of the leisure clasp

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Dave

One of the key themes in our ongoing public discourse is taxes. Mitt Romney’s income tax filings and the continuing collateral damage from banker bonuses and bailouts have made this an open sore with the pain shooting to the dark … Continue reading →

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in gold we trust: bullions and bullions served

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Dave

Is it only a metal whose value comes from the useful goods for which it can be exchanged? The belief in gold does appear more mystical, touching on the psychological aspects of fantasy and ecstasy more so than its pragmatic … Continue reading →

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how much is not enough

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Dave

If you can justify anything in the name of art can you justify almost everything in the name of profit. Or, are these more successful versions, the cream of the millions of small time hustlers and scam artists who lacked … Continue reading →

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zombie banking: deposit at your risk

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Dave

Early on in the financial crisis, economic opinion from the like of Krugman, Stiglitz et al. warned that the greatest danger of the bailouts was the creation of zombie banks. Essentially cadavers, near cadavers with a faint pulse in a … Continue reading →

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the fab four

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Dave

Is Occupy Wall Street an authentic movement or just a fad? Or, is the “real” just a metaphor for mass-produced and generic with an expiry date? Can an authentic movement lose its eternal qualities and become a fad? It is … Continue reading →

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china: year of the fat cats

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dave

The Associated Press recently reported that Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Katy Perry have all been deemed threats to “cultural national security” in China, and that the government is surveilling, reprimanding and controlling content on music websites in a protracted effort … Continue reading →

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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 →

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I’d rather be a weed

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Dave

It can be plausibly argued that violence does cause thinking. If peace was predominant, there would never be much occasion for thoughtful reflection. So, thinking is bound to violence, and violence seems the janus-faced side of civilization. And, the trick … Continue reading →