Cunningham

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/04/re-hunting-birds-of-paradise-maureen.html

RE PIKETTY ROBOTIC ECONOMISTS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/adam-smiths-invisible-hand-and-maverick.html

RE FRENCH NATIONAL FRONT SO CALLED FAR RIGHT

"The party is opposed to mass immigration, free trade and the euro."

If this is all it takes to be considered ' far right ' by the BBC, then surely I must be far right.

This used to be part of what one called merely a ' good citizen '.

Everyone who repudiates the EU in the name of their own country and what may be left of its political and geographic integrity, is now labeled Far Right. 

What nonsense.

A LITTLE BACKGROUND EEU EU SIX MONTHS AGO

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25401179

"Contrary to the popular view, Mr Putin did not start with sanctions. He offered Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych major incentives: significantly lower gas prices, large-scale industrial co-operation projects, and soft credits."

ECB WARNS INVESTORS GAMBLING FOR PROFITS

They are all at The Casino of the Party of Davos

re Nevins' works Civil War

He is great for someone already familiar with prior works, and so long as you want to read thousands of pages meandering seemingly aimlessly (as our politics always has done) through forests of classic chicken guano American political wrangling.

I have started reading a work more to the point, and a whole lot shorter, and better expressed, re points Nevins later reiterates more at length, The Civil War And Reconstruction, J G Randall. 

RE EU COUNTRIES REPUDIATING EU SOVEREIGNTY AT BAY AGAIN

It was only a matter of time really.

These countries' electorates have begun to realize that their respective countries, and their EU, have been taken over, really, as well as everyone else almost, by what Faux called the Party of Davos, globalist very large corporate interests. The Party just happens to meet in Europe.

Big corporate interests, and globalist socialist interests as well, each detest mere nationalism, branded ever since before WW I, but especially after WWII, as a German type Fascist aberration. 

Capitalists and communists each planned for the mere nation state, as well as the imperialist and monarchist states, to wither away into counterposed utopian universalisms.

Capitalism, no less than communism, was often conceived (promulgated is a better word) as leading, by natural and enlightened market forces,  either Whig or Hegelian, toward universal equality and prosperity (a globalized, limitlessly expanding (limitless economic growth), and prosperous middle class). 

For example, DK cites Simon Kuznets espousing this view as late as the 1950s: "By the mid-1950s the economist Simon Kuznets was writing that capitalism had entered a new phase characterized by more equality, rather than less."

(The forces promulgating such a view of capitalism were those corporatist entities, using media vehicles, and relying on globalist institutions, already long at work, and latterly chronicled in such works as Sovereignty At Bay.) 

RE FEDERAL STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Just stop, and take a look, some time, at a highly populated urban area of the US, and just count overlapping local, city and county, and multi county districts, and also state, governments, in that several county, and or several state, area.

Lorch phrased his book ' the great entanglement ', for reasons.

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2014/05/re-dk-post.html

RE EU

I always have thought that a politically unified Europe was a terrible idea, beyond  a mere trade, or a customs, barrier reducer.

Europeans are now afraid of globalization; 
way too late my friends.

The wolf of American liberal anarchism, and its Party of Davos sponsored globalization, are at every door.

RE 30 YEAR GAS DEAL RUSSIA CHINA YOUR STATE YOUR COMPANY

Could your company do anything like that?

See: Long term deals in Australia.

TERMS SEARCH: YOUR STATE, YOUR COMPANY, 

Australia

THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/06/re-week-in-privacy-just-between-us-nyt.html

RE MACRO ECONOMICS ANTHROPOLOGY

One might as well believe in survival of the fittest as in market rectitude.

RE THE LAISSEZ FAIRY'S NEMESIS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-laissez-fairys-fairy.html

FAUX VACCINATIONS HUMAN RITES

They're everywhere you want to be.

Very liberal idea.

audience today at the moment

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RE BBC FAUX VACCINE SPY PROGRAMS USED TO APPREHEND BIN LADIN UNDER COUNTERATTACKS

I recommend ending vaccine programs, because we already have too large a global population, anyway. 

Not for cloak and dagger reasons, nor really for the safety of the vaccination workers.

RE NYT ARTICLE NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF HUMAN CONFLICT CALL IN JARON LANIER

“But it is a legal and diplomatic gamble whether this approach is more likely to halt attacks that a classified American report circulated last year said were directed at more than 3,000 American companies.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said that while nations routinely spy on one another for national security purposes, it was out of bounds for China to use state espionage operations to gain commercial advantages.

At the core of the indictment is the argument that while large countries routinely spy on each other for national security purposes, it is out of bounds to use state-run intelligence assets to seek commercial advantage.”

It is decades too late to bemoan the consequences of lazy market capitalist globalization, and its casual dispersion of technologies and know how, its institutional disregard for intellectual property, privacy rights, and above all, the common welfare here.  

After all, our companies and those of others, have been building plants and shared research facilities in China, and elsewhere, for decades now, not merely sharing technology voluntarily, often for peanuts. 

Regarding so called espionage, private companies have been brought into conspiracy with governments, ours and others, to spy on their and others' populations, companies, and governments, at will.

They, the Chinese, must wonder at our long standing stupidity, to have largely fostered such a give away globalist technology system.

Short term profit, appeasement, strategic alliances, and pacifist liberalism, are not adequate explanations for such a level of stupidity.

Never in the history of human conflict has so much been given or bargained away to so many by so few for so little so quickly.

re multidisciplinary studies and Wittgenstein

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/later-wittgenstein-search-paradox-and.html

The rest, unless for clinical or other, practical or professional, reasons or needs, is, structurally, twaddle.

To quote Wittgenstein, somewhat out of his context, disciplinization itself, and especially further subdisciplinary fragmentations, are the ' conjuror's trick ' of higher education. 

Wittgenstein, P. I., para. 308.

NEGATIVE SUM GAME

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/07/re-yueh-bbc-us-versus-china-short.html

NUF SAID

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/08/ps.html

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/08/re-prior-post-ps-re-1917-1945.html

RE PIKETTY A NICE SHORT SQUIB ON A COUPLE ISSUES

http://fixingtheeconomists.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/why-thomas-piketty-is-wrong-about-inflation-and-interest-rates/

re UN UKRAINE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2014/05/i-am-just-going-to-put-it-this-way.html

They are everywhere you want to be.

Naked Capitalism

COPY OF RECENT INQUIRY RE FDR

(To Professor Laud)

Professor:

I enjoyed reading your article. http://www.fdrheritage.org/fdr&holocaust.htm

I have been trying to ascertain whether Roosevelt himself, regarding his Dutch parentage and religious heritage, may have had reasons, analogous, in some ways, to those of Hull, whose wife was Jewish, not to press too heavily on Jewish matters, beyond a certain point.

I read Beschloss' book, and wondered if this might account for the anti Germanism Beschloss ascribes to Roosevelt in The Conquerors.

Very truly yours,

INVESTING IN THE TARGET IS AFTER ALL MERELY AN ELABORATE SMOKE SCREEN

RE Yves Smith.

Even the tariff scare of the 70s and 80s, when they built plants here and there, and later, was mainly a purely politically motivated feint, as they already knew, basically, both the Germans and the Japanese and others, that no real developmental protection (the only kind worth keeping in place), or any corresponding large scale renewed industrial or technological innovation, would, or could, emerge here, anyway.

Reading Lester Thurow, The Zero Sum Society, 1980, he pointed out, that we had protection, but not innovation.

In truth, we had largely faux protection, sans developmental or redevelopmental innovation, in certain limited areas, for a limited period, quickly swept away shortly thereafter.

IT IS LESS IMPORTANT MAKING WISE INVESTMENTS IN, THAN FIRST HAVING WELL HOLLOWED OUT, THE TARGET

Re Yves Smith. 

Naked Capitalism site. 

Wall of shame, really.

Yves Smith facilitator for naked capitalism think Trading Places You Only Live Twice Japan then China

"...Readers may recall I worked with the Japanese when they were in the same position the Chinese are in now, that of exporting massive amounts of capital, and at the juncture when private businessmen were eagerly hoovering up foreign investments. In some ways, the Japanese then were better positioned than the Chinese are now due to the strength of the yen in the later 1980s (the result of the Plaza Accord of 1985 which sought to and succeeded in lowering the dollar relative to the yen). Before then, I did some advisory work for a cross-border M&A effort of a McKinsey client, and have been recruited by boutiques that were focused on cross-border investing."

OCCASIONALLY A CERTAIN KNOWN INDIVIDUAL GETS ON THIS SITE AND VENTS

such as two posts ago.

Ignore these.

I'M WITH THE RUSSIANS ON THE WURST

The convergence of news and entertainment market capitalist media, and their relative invincibility among Western liberal democracies....

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/mise-en-scene-for-cartoon-t-back-hot.html

He is rather a later, degenerate, version, of say, Charles Aznavour, as a transvestite.

One question, given the apparent Francophilia here, is why the Austrians themselves, or even more so, the Germans, have not shouted out, culturally, ' foul '! 

One answer is set out above, and below:

'The convergence of news and entertainment market capitalist media, and their relative invincibility among Western liberal democracies....'

To whom it may concern,

I am, pretty much the entire time, a complete idiot. I leave my blog open so that others can write posts on it. I leave the CAPS on so that everyone else using this computer will get all messed up. Others that have used the computer after me have tried logging into their own accounts and get all screwed up because CAPS is on. Then they keep trying to submit their passwords and such and it doesn't work. Then they're logged out for hours, or perhaps days, and it's all because of my negligence. Long story short, I need to stop blogging all the time, go do some actual work, and stop wasting time writing stupid posts and screwing other people up. 

RE PIKETTY KEYNES THUROW ETC

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/philip-pilkington-pikettys-regressive-views-public-debt-potential-impact-book.html

ENORMOUS BLUNDER YOU WON'T SEE ANY ECONOMISTS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THIS TO YOU

"Shared antagonism to Soviet Union crucial to Sino-American rapprochment.... 72."

Read, say, Kennan, Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, "Russia and the War in Asia".

I AM JUST GOING TO PUT IT THIS WAY RADICAL WHIG DISNEYWORLD IT'S A SMALL WORLD DREAMLAND

American anarchic (think 17th,  18th, century radical Whig theory) early globalist market capitalism (Smuggler Nation), whether left or  right, later, engenders political weakness, and disorder, everywhere else, (think globalized Sovereignty at Bay), 

leading to foreign political disorder across and between both nations and their civilizations, which in turn requires intervention against (radical Whig individualist) human rights violations, 

caused by the very anarchic capitalist globalist ' system ' we have, from the beginning really, espoused.

Sovereignty at Bay: "...When in Rome, do as the Romans."

"Apocalypse Now": "... Sir, I see no method."

Theme music: "It's A Small World After All" 

BECKETTIAN REVISITING THUROW

With everyone emoting over Piketty, why not.

Though I am not an authority on something like this, he was our last popular, 'so called', political economist, was he not?

Maybe there were others, whose names have slipped my mind. 

"Well then, if they have slipped your mind, then how popular could they have been?" 

See the circularity, or should one not call it, rather, decline, or perhaps not, both?

past blast passage

"For Americans, politics, history, and morals, have overwhelmingly been somebody's else's 'business'..."

PAST BLAST RE ENTREPRENEURS CAPITALISM RAND ETC

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/just-few-brief-syllables-on.html

JUSTIN IWTFYB TIMBERLAKE

Forget about naming your child Justin.

Thanks.

RE GLOBALIZATION OR CAPITALISM WHAT MATTER THIS OR THAT REASON

"For example, whether we used capitalism or socialism to extend globalisation we might still see that rise in inequality. So blaming capitalism, trying to fix capitalism so the inequality doesn’t occur, would be useless if our still increasing globalisation kept increasing that inequality."

American leftists and rightists are, and have been, both, globalizers, for their different reasons, and, in the case of the liberal elites, their pretexts.

review of Mervyn King review of Piketty

"...This is akin to my own reading of the inequality story. We have greater within country inequality as an almost inevitable consequence of globalisation. That same globalisation leading to ever reducing global inequality. So to call increased incountry inequality some inevitable part of capitalism as Piketty does seems a little strange. For it might well be an inevitable property of globalisation but not of capitalism. And, as ever, if we blame something on the wrong cause then we’ll take action to solve the wrong thing. For example, whether we used capitalism or socialism to extend globalisation we might still see that rise in inequality. So blaming capitalism, trying to fix capitalism so the inequality doesn’t occur, would be useless if our still increasing globalisation kept increasing that inequality."

PERHAPS IT IS A TERMINOLOGICAL DISTINCTION

Under slow growth, maybe it is better to phrase it this way:

capital is consolidated more rapidly, rather than being accumulated more rapidly. 

Capital is wiped out by war, depression, etc.

Slow, and especially negative, growth hinders capital accumulation, as economic downturns and depressions very well have attested. both serve the interests of consolidation, however, very well.

RE ZERO SUM FALLACY

This is actually an erroneous fallacy, so to speak.

It is actually a negative sum game, not a zero sum fallacy situation.

After NAFTA, and Perot's  giant sucking sound, China then was very quickly allowed to take over Mexico's newly created labor market.......and that of many others.

Americans had long since lost this share of work, first to Europe, then to Japan, and elsewhere, then to China and elsewhere.

re ASS ROAST PHYSICS

See Krugman's blog post: Abusing Relativity

RE SO CALLED SLOW GROWTH IN CAPITALIST NATIONAL ECONOMIES

"Piketty should explode that myth once and for all, although I am afraid that will not be possible.  To put it bluntly, the vast majority of those who accumulate capital do not create jobs.  Capital is accumulated more rapidly when economic growth is slow, and thus, it is in the interests of capitalists to keep it slow.  That is why, as I shall discuss in a later post, the nation grew more rapidly and shared income more fairly in the era when the federal government taxed its citizens more heavily and put the money into labor intensive enterprises such as dams, schools, the interstate highway system, and yes, even wars.  To allow capital to accumulate more rapidly will slow growth still further. That is exactly what has happened since the 1980s." 

Doubtless, re so called slow growth, one is talking, here, of so called national economies', and western economies' slow growths. This has not at all been the case regarding, especially, Asian national economies, notably Japan in the 50s through 80s and the Tigers, and later China after 1980.

Capital grew rapidly, and some salaries have risen quite rapidly, by rapid economic growth, but just selectively, and mostly elsewhere than in the West where there has been stagnation, wages declines, and stubborn globalized capital gains, largely for globalized (ie not strictly Western) companies and elites, and globalized command capital Asian and Russian national champions and their elites.

I would have thought that almost anyone, including even Piketty,  could see such things by now.

I guess that is rather what was meant, or what might be meant, by Thurow and others, by a zero sum game.

something you haven't got in Asia

Leverage. 

Why? Goes way back.

Wouldn't know what to do with it, if you had it, anyway.

Terms search: Kennan, China, etc.

Eastern Europe?

Ditto.

RE DOZENS CHINESE VIETNAMESE NAVAL VESSELS RAMMING EACH OTHER

What to call that?  Free trade? Oil market activity?

BLAST PAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-other-incalculable-blunder-bigger.html

RE DK POST

"...That's why virtually all our institutions, from the federal government on down, are so much weaker than they were a half century ago...."

I do not believe this to have been the case. 
Rather, the contrary.

I believe the federal is stronger, than either the stronger states, or locals.

Of course, they are relatively somewhat stronger, in a weaker, globalized, environment, where all entities are weaker than they might otherwise have been.

re Piketty DK POST

"Mark Blyth suggested that today's rich live in a privatized society featuring their own gated communities, private schools, and top-level colleges and universities, and therefore take no interest in how the rest of the population lives.  It would be even more damaging if they used their economic power to ensure macroeconomic policies that favored them at the expense of the rest of us.  I hope that this becomes part of the debate that Piketty has inspired."

Unfortunately, this happened long ago:  

"It would be even more damaging if they used their economic power to ensure macroeconomic policies that favored them at the expense of the rest of us." 

It happened starting in about 1930, and accelerated after 1945.

SOME ASTUTE OBSERVER NOTED THIS OLD POST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-price-wars-post-situation-versus.html

and its footnote

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-re-price-wars-post-situation-versus.html

see also

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-jurors-comments-and-editorial.html

let me just put it this way

What Piketty says has been happening has been what I have characterized as what late post WWII globalization has been intended by its proponents to be.

CASTING AROUND FOR AN EXPLANATION FOR BESCHLOSS' ASSERTIONS IN CONQUERORS

I stumbled on this site, have not read it yet, but looks worth reviewing:

http://www.fdrheritage.org/fdr&holocaust.htm

Re Piketty comment

A nice thumbnail sketch.

Tructor:
"Yes, Piketty's book is important, but as your wife could clearly see, it states what the left have known since 1974: that the rich elite have been working the system to their advantage.
When you say, "It would be even more damaging if they used their economic power to ensure macroeconomic policies that favored them at the expense of the rest of us". I am baffled. Isn't that what they have been doing all along, and more so in the past 20 years of "off-shoring", robotics, mergers, etc, that have shrunk labor's share of productivity gains? Not to mention the past 6 years of "TARP", "QE 2, 3 & 4's", that have grossly bailed out banks & financial firms, rewarded the top 1% with $$ Billions at the expense of labor, home-owners, retirees and savers. 
During this period, Democrats have focused on peripheral issues set up by the right wing: gay rights, feminism, affirmative action, abortion, etc -- all Red-Herrings, important sub-issues, but not the main agenda: fair share of economic growth and GNP. Democrats have been marginalized in "defense" of what is already in the Constitution and recent legislation...
The real mystery is How & Why the working classes support all manner of right-wing propaganda and issues directly against their self-interest! 
Piketty has done us all a great service by revealing again why the "emperors" have no clothes."

Piketty wants globalized fairness, the unit of measure for the greatest good for the greatest numbers.

RE LORCH WAY TOO MUCH COVERAGE BOTCHED EXECUTION

Whatever sells to liberals.

re DK current topic

"...He belongs to the diplomatic tradition of John F. Kennedy, George H. W. Bush, Richard Nixon and my own father, all of whom believed (yes, including Nixon) that diplomats were supposed to solve problems among nations.  (Hillary Clinton showed no sign of grasping this in her four years as Secretary of State.)..."  

I know Professor Kaiser is also a fan of Kennan. He introduced me to Kennan's work.  

Here is Kennan, re our Ambassadors, and also, I think, our diplomats, in general, here:

'FLASHBACKS'

"...ambassador to Moscow. The assignment has nothing to do with Soviet - American relations. The present ambassador, it seems, is leaving.  It is the election year of 1952. For purely domestic political reasons, the administration is afraid to leave the post vacant.  Foreign policy -- policy toward the Soviet Union -- plays no part in the decision.  It never occurs to people in the administration that the position of American ambassador to Moscow has anything to do with policy.  They don't really know, to tell the truth, what an ambassador is for...."  

"They don't really know, to tell the truth, what an ambassador is for." 

Without getting into the current Hillary matter, about which I know nothing, Kennan actually explained, in several works, echoing eg Tocqueville and others, at different places, why, structurally, the American political system does not do either diplomacy or foreign policy well at all.

The objections are, in some ways, similar to, and as valid as, those made by European emperors and their ministers to the European republics, especially Republican France, after 1815.  

He quotes Tocqueville in Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, "  a democracy can only with great difficulty regulate the details of an important undertaking, persevere in a fixed design, and work out its execution in spite of serious obstacles."

RE DOLLAR

http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/is-the-dollar-doomed-18228#.U2GCPuUhbZk.gmail