Archive - Mar 2014 - Blog entry

“Black Swan” Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb DEMOLISHES the Claim that GMOs Are Low-Risk

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. ~  T. S. Eliot

What is the Bundesbank thinking? 

The Maidan City...

To really appreciate “too big to fail,” you must first and foremost understand that it is a political concept that springs from a sense of liberal privilege and entitlement. 

Netflix isn't as expensive as it appears.  Be cautious getting caught up in the latest fear frenzy over net neutrality.

Straight Out of the Third Reich - User's Manual

How Are The Spooks Messing With Your Computer and Reducing Your Productivity?

What exactly is happening in this globalized world? What’s happening in the world that one day somebody constructed in which everybody had access to everybody’s private life via social networks and even some had access to it through special programs that they gave fancy names to like Prism and the President’s Surveillance Program?

Yellen’s decision to continue tapering QE indicates that she is aware of the fact the markets are getting out of control again or are approaching a bubble. This is further confirmed this by her decision to drop the 6.5% unemployment threshold as well as her suggestion that interest rate hikes could come as soon as six months after QE ends this coming December.

This contradicts their claim to sovereign power by way of their superior intellect, business prowess, hereditary entitlement, military strength, political power, majority consensus or whatever story they can pull out of their hat.  

This is Washington, where nothing makes sense.

SPEW WARNING...

... They Control It. All Of It. ALL of It. ALL THE TIME. I Only Get – and My Committee Only Gets – What They WANT To Give Me.”

Spending just $3.33 on US-produced goods every year by every person in the USA would create 10,000 jobs. We obviously don’t have that much money to spend or we don’t care