why not reprise this one

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/04/re-chalabi-kennan-gaddis-kissinger.html

re off shoring

This was a good one:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-this-is-not-recovery.html

RE COMMAGER'S ABRIDGEMENT OF MARLBOROUGH

Have a sense that the abridgement is a mistake to read.......

I had a change of heart, as the unabridged volumes are too bulky to hold for long!

re CHINA INDIA MEETING OVER BORDERS IN THE MOUNTAINS

China's borders are what they say they are, no doubt.

THE GLOBALIST LIBERAL MAVERICK AS BENEFACTOR

Think Gates Foundation.

Also think, Lauren Bush Lauren. Says it all.

These kinds of initiatives, paraphrasing W,  are 'right for all people everywhere'.

RE TREASURY WWII

I thought it was particularly special, how Treasury, Morgenthau etc,  got for the Soviets a duplicate set of mark occupation plates for their use, at the end of the war.  Special quantitative easing, over there.

This is from Beschloss' The Conquerors , see p 152, 153 and fn.2. 

RE SMOKING TAX TO AID DUPED INVESTORS BBC

Apparently, there are plenty of private, and political, entrepreneurs there in India.

Randall Collins blog

He has pointed out certain features of mass killers. They usually have a backstage arsenal, similar perhaps to that in Boston recently;

although  a mass killer and a so called terrorist probably differ significantly, analytically.

It is a long article, for the attention challenged modern psyche:

http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/2012/09/clues-to-mass-rampage-killers-deep.html

MORGENTHAU OR PATTON

Fairly cut and dried, really.

for my numerous Russian guests

Why shouldn't we have bestowed the bounties of federalism onto the USSR, after WWI?

It would not have been that hard to do.

Dividing it into at least three separate monarchies seems, in retrospect, to have made much more sense than to allow it to lumber forward as a Stalinist land mass behemoth regime, as it did.

I will go into Patton's wise suggestions for Russia after WWII  on another day.

Australian government is investing in Chinese bonds

Not a good sign, going forward.......

Very predictable, though, given all the Chinese buying of Australian natural resources..........

what choice did they have?

As Mary Poppins complained, leverage a problem.

JAPAN WARNS OVER ISLAND LANDINGS

Now you're talking.

You only live twice.

this was fun back then

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-lester-thurow-future-of-capitalism.html

this was a catchy cartoon mise en scene

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/mise-en-scene-maverick-executive-free.html

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RE BBC NEWS DEPORTING ONE RADICAL MUSLIM CLERIC

Why not make a package deal?

That might ensure the gradual withering away of a Muslim ' presence ' in the UK.

Their numbers there are, after all, huge.

A CLASSIC MAVERICK EXECUTIVE BBC NEWS

The device was based on a golf ball detector!

an old post from the other blog re green two party politics

http://deglobbalization.blogspot.com/2011/08/re-two-party-system-and-post-wwii.html

the menu French toast Romano for Gigi

I think of Italian dishes as ' for Gigi ':

This is ' French Toast Romano ',

rather like eggplant parmesan........

sprinkle grated pecorino Romano onto bacon fat fried french toast.

Muir Glen garlic roasted garlic sauce to cover.

Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.

re Michael Lewis

Would be fun if he were to delve into the underlying causes of the wild whacky swing down in gold recently.

He could train his analytic eye onto the currency angle, which, to my knowledge, he has not looked at much, in print at least.

RE ROOSEVELT TRUMAN

Been reading Beschloss' Conquerors. Seems rather well selected, but what an enormously editted narrative it had to be; in that sense, it seems less a work of history than of historical journalism, with highly selective and important quotes interspersed.

What a sad commentary is painted, not just the Morgenthau White saga (also reading The Haunted Wood),
but the whole administrative set up, and approach.

Term search maverick

Back in the 70s it was generally thought that the key to good management was keeping your domestic American work force happy and self actualized.......................

I read what seemed like a hundred HBS articles on the subject.

All that changed rather rapidly in the 80s.

I guess these seasoned Harvard academicians were just a little behind the times.

LAISSEZ FAIRE MAVERICK GONE GREEN CARBON CREDITS THE PRICE OF A BIG BUFORD

So called Western environmentalism, carbon market, and greenhouse abatements, mainly helped to artificially boom Asia, especially China, enrich liberal carpetbag traders, and help further hollow out Western industries generally:

BBC article:

"That means more tough times for financial institutions. Particularly troubled is the business of investing in greenhouse gas abatement projects like wind farms or hydroelectric dams in developing countries like China. JPMorgan Chase paid more than $200 million for one of the largest investors in these projects, EcoSecurities, in 2009.

 

Financiers say these projects used to be gold mines, generating credits that industrial companies could use to offset their emissions elsewhere. But so many credits have been produced by these projects — on top of the existing oversupply of credits in Europe — that they are trading at about a third of a euro."

' carbon credit printing ', similar to fiat currency printing.......

Term search, say: Maverick Executive

this was one of the classics

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-cartoon-mise-en-scene-uncle-sam-dog.html

someone likes this perhaps you too

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-nyt-editorial-bailing-out-new-jersey.html

RE THE GERMAN NEW DEAL VERSUS OURS

See Communities Of Discourse pb. p. 402, the paragraph beginning "Although the state was not particularly responsive to socialist demands, it had a long history of intervening in the economy on behalf of workers....these measures...all were opposed by the liberal parties on the grounds that laissez faire was a more appropriate policy toward economic affairs.....Thus the socialist movement was able to unify its objectives around state-sponsored programs rather than having to carve out a distinct agenda amidst competing programs offered by liberal parties, trade unions, and voluntary associations."

Our New Deal was a liberal, bourgeoisie, laissez faire, New Deal.

the menu for Gigi

Gigi knows how to eat........

Sear, in a shallow skillet, several rather thin pork chops, in butter,
then saute onions therein. Deglaze with a little fino sherry or white wine.
Add a dollop of fig jam per chop, and some olive oil, to the deglace; also a pinch of mustard,
and a splash of balsamic vinegar. Salt and pepper to taste.
Roast in the same shallow skillet for 20 minutes @375.
Serve with potato carrot garlic mash, made with milk and butter.
Serve also with field greens with arrugula and sweet onion,
and dinner rolls.

Red Burgundy wine, Chianti, or fino sherry.

RE BOWDOIN AND THE NAS

Already a must read................locus classicus.

infested with Russians today

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Term search cartoon

some older ones were rather fun;
older post titles (use terms search w Bing):

NEW CASANOVA HAND VERTICAL INTEGRATION BUT WORLD IS FLAT CARTOON

Re Making Ignorance Chic: Cinderella Three Penny Opera Crucible Marilyn Palin Beauty and the Beast Mise En Scene

Re Kennan

Not widely known I am guessing, but Japan and the USSR had a nonagression pact, in effect, an alliance,

while the USSR was allied with us during WWII,

so that Japan could have a free unencumbered hand to attack us, and others, in the Pacific.

Get ready for a lot more of the same, from all sides.

YOU CANNOT CURRENCY YOUR WAY TO PROSPERITY

Printing money is not an ' industry '.

KOREA NOW AND AN UNSTABLE ASIA AN OSTENSIBLE BIG SURPRISE

Not a big surprise.  I have been saying low grade global war under way now several years, under the radar. Certainly many events have been acts of war already; eg cyber attack on Iranian nuclear program, etc., etc.

See DK's current post.

SPEAKING OF ACADEMIC UTOPIAN DREAM LAND BLAST FROM THE PAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/10/re-48th-is-not-good-place.html

RE US ZIGGED WHEN IT SHOULD HAVE ZAGGED THROUGHOUT 20TH CENTURY RE SOCIALISM

I checked out The Haunted Wood, and Cloak and Gown.

Romantic radicals......

The place, here,  has however been filled with
' romantic ' utopians, at both extremes, ever since the founding, really.

audience this week US Germany Russia neck and neck why ask why

Russia	26
Germany	25
United States	21
Hungary	8
Mexico	4
Italy	3
United Kingdom	1
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term search

Daumier

audience so far this week very Russia heavy

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Hungary	6
Italy	3
Germany	1
Venezuela	1

RE ENLIGHTENMENT AND EDUCATION

See David Kaiser's current post.......
I have been reading Wuthnow's Communities Of Discourse,
instigated by a reference in Collins. Great stuff.
See Collins' relatively early work, The Credential Society. There are some useful references in both to other works in the history of  ' higher education '.

surprise Black Sea manouevres

the problem for the few so called Keynesians left

Faber Marc,

money not flowing into what they are trying to help, so too speak...

faux economies to some extent, now.

term search re the tooth fairy

laissez fairy

this is also popular somehow rather more recherche

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=4147236395245613308

someone likes this a reprise of the laissez fairy etc

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/03/re-big-short-john-gutfreund-salomon-ceo.html

THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS BBC NEWS

Buddhists versus Muslims. A perennial rivalry heating up.

They just need a little more freer trade,

and of course a little less government regulation of any kind,

to flourish together,

over there,

 in the subcontinent.

re Collins

here is a blast from the past on his blog. I have read only excerpts:

http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=4

SEE David Kaiser's current topic

Re meritocracy.

term search

Many even now think this has been a meritocracy here. They need to think instead of blindly believing this nonsense.

term search: meritocracy

mercantilism

What ruralized, embattled fragmented areas will eventually resort to, again.

Largely because they did not resort to it ab initio laissez faire.

RE THOMAS L FRIEDMAN TODAY NYT

Great point,  Western hobbyism. The dispatch of a vassal.......

The solution for the modern state of Israel needs to be,
again, what it always was, in the biblical age,

re vassal ization by a Muslim state, at best.

A GREAT BLAST FROM THE RECENT PAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/08/i-keep-meaning-to-talk-about-so-called.html

CARTOON BLAST FROM THE PAST

these maverick rodeo ones were a cute genre back then:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/huan-trading-places-mise-en-scene-hog.html

UK WADING INTO SYRIAN WAR

Sending vehicles to the opposition, the slender wedge.

re nyt as fears recede

What a Pollyanna dream world these investor folks are in.
 'Sophisticated market participants '.

BBC RE CRISIS OF GLOBAL TRADE INVESTMENT LIBERAL HOUSE OF CARDS

Christopher Hughes re China Japan:

"We are seeing the coincidence of two regimes in China and Japan which are facing crises of legitimacy and a temptation to turn to issues of nationalism to compensate."

I WOULD HAVE PUT IT RATHER DIFFERENTLY, BUT IT COMES TO THE SAME THING, in a way.

One could meaningfully say this re almost all liberal market globalized Western democracies too.

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/02/re-japan-china-and-us.html

re austerity italian style Krugman nyt

He criticizes Italian austerity,

but as I have said so often, Keynesianism stimulation doesn't on the other hand work so well for the globalized gobblelized:

'Stimulus' gets sucked out of the 'erstwhile' domestic economy (no such thing, that much, anymore) like an egg

by developmental weasels, and MNCS, plying that trade.

re Japan China and us

Curious Americans might well wonder how it came about,
that we can confirm a military alliance with the former
against the latter, while at the same time having much of our debt held by, and much of our manufacturing done in, the latter? It is a long and sad story. See this blog for details.

George Kennan, Chalmers Johnson, Prestowitz, Van Wolferen, Thurow, Kindleberger, Friedman and LaBard, Gabor Steingart, Raymond Vernon; these are some authors to consult.

RE THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS

She, Pauline Maier,  fleshes out some of this history rather well. 
Few Americans care about the actual history.


http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/12/re-pauline-maiers-article-nyt.html
 http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/01/re-right-to-bear-arms.html

for some great flashes from the past

term search say a term like: Casanova

RE NO BUY AND HOLD ANY LONGER

All 'investments' are now short term.

Gambling.

The underlying fact is all assets now really are short term. 

There are no long term assets anymore.

the menu

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-krugmans-eating-irish.html

hacking eventually may result in partial take down of globalization

But probably not, by itself.

Other factors will come to the fore, in concert.

RE NYT HACK WAR CHINA ARMY UNIT

This, to me, was the most comical, and ridiculous,
part of the article, so far:

"The United States government is planning to begin a more aggressive defense against Chinese hacking groups, starting on Tuesday."

Yesterday, 'Tuesday', a little too late, my friends.

About 5 decades too late at least.

As I have said here so often,

smell the coffee, game over.

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=3732211802249797760

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=3732211802249797760

SOMEONE SAW THIS NOT AT ALL BAD REALLY

MISE EN SCENE BUS STOP MAVERICK EXECUTIVE MARILYN FREE TRADE HUMAN RIGHTS HOLD UP AND UGLY PHILOSOPHERS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/mise-en-scene-maverick-executive-free.html

SEE DAVID KAISER'S CURRENT POST

RE MY COMMENTS HERE IN OLDER POSTS RE COMPARTMENTALIZATION DIFFERENTIATION ETC

See Tilly re another aspect of these issues: dedifferentiation.

See his Index, Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons

RE RECENT NOTICE OF CYBER THEFT SYMPTOM OF THE LARGEST MOST DISASTEROUS RECKLESS SHIFT IN GEOPOLITICAL POWER IN HISTORY

It went almost unnoticed over here for decades.

We have been more or less giving this stuff, and on the ground know how, away for 6 + decades now, for that good short term profitability.
What's all the to do, now,
with a little large scale cyber theft, to boot?
Just good ole large scale private capitalism working itself toward wholesome equilibrium?

Not. Just a belated footnote to:
Term search, my paraphrase of Churchill's remark re the RAF:

' never in the history of human conflict has so much been given away, to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly. ' 

It is easy to poo poo economic nationalism, or, say, a more modern form of mercantilism or something, nation statism, what you will, until one realizes that the alternative, in the long run, is Schumpeterian like destruction of your nation state and almost all others in the wake of some outcome or another of globalization and developmental nationalism, now coming into view.

As many people have pointed out, Wallerstein more recently and broadly, certain once great imperial centers are now semi pheripheral areas, notably Madrid Spain, Rome Italy, Athens Greece, Cairo Egypt, Istanbul Turkey, etc., etc.;

once great capitalist trading cities, Amsterdam, Genoa, Venice, Cadiz, Lisbon, Cairo, Constantinople, Baghdad, not peripheries but also not commercial empires either anymore.

historyunfolding

RE CHRISTOPHER HUGHES CHINA JAPAN

Why are all these super powerful regimes so de legitimized?

Why is ours, and Europe's, also so weak and delegitimized?

Why are they turning to nationalism?

Because liberal and conservative and communist globalism have all failed.

AMERICAN MARKET CAPITALISTS CANNOT FREEZE REPUGNANT to them GEOGRAPHICAL NATION STATE BORDERS FOREVER ANYWAY

Why not 'go with the flow',

to paraphrase a laissez faire idiom, anyway?

term search

poker

RUSSIA IN THE MIX ON THE NORTH END BBC WORLD NEWS

RE TRADE WAR WITH THE ISLANDS GLOBALIST NYT TALKS ABOUT A TORRENT IN A TEACUP

WTO: another bi partisan blunder,

close on the heels of NAFTA.

Too much global trade,

too much internet.

We are primarily responsible for the excessive proliferation of both.

ITS ALL GOOD RUSSIAN FIGHTER JETS BREACH JAPAN AIR SPACE BBC NEWS

They all need a little exercise over there.....

This no doubt helps China make its case with Japan.

Russia needs to exercise its muscles somewhere.  Asia has not been its strong point.

Maybe they need to relive the Russo Japanese War, 1905.

RE STANDARD & POOR'S SUIT

What a pathetic showing.

As everyone knows, these were relatively poorly paid, quant grunts, on Wall Street, at the beck and call of the houses.

I actually interviewed for an analyst job, back in 79 or 80. 

It was considered a slippery stepping stone, at best.

Only the average American,

in the relative total darkness of global market capitalism now,

will think this is a form of retribution for anything.

Michael Lewis' books flesh this fact out rather well.

Both Liar's Poker and Moneyball.

Cynical in the extreme, given S & P's serfdom position on Wall Street.

THE RISE OF CHINA IS THE WAGES OF SIN NOT ONLY FOR US BUT ALSO FOR JAPAN

Term search: playing three sides, leverage, etc.

See, eg:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/08/re-market-power-and-trickle-down.html

IN THE UNWINDING AFTERMATH OF GLOBBISM

Every man for himself.

GOOGLE ADVERSUS CHINA BBC NEWS SEE ALSO JAPAN ETC

Further re The Economist December 12 post:

We gave them, and all others, the internet.

We gave them, and many others, trade advantage.

These are things we have now done.

Smell the coffee.

Game over.

Term search: leverage, Mary Poppins retired......

CHINA ATTACKS NYT LAZY FAIR BBC

A private, merchantile, matter shall we say:

"When you see the same group steal data on Chinese dissidents and Tibetan activists, then attack an aerospace company, it starts to push you in the right direction,"

I say: bring a civil suit, what?

re taup fardy old lyric nonsense

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/02/re-grammies-and-top-40-so-what-money.html

re a free laissez faire press

Re the recent Murdoch scandals, here was an old post of mine:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-mr-paterson-editorial-same-old-media.html

HISTORY IS NOT ACTUALLY MADE MAINLY BY TITANIC INDIVIDUALS

Although I love watching Rufus, a Randian world of a few supernatural beings at the top making history,

extreme case, one human being,

determining all things by their prowess,

a meritocracy of the elite,

not something I believe in at all.

DAVID BROOKS nyt

Believes we have had a meritocracy here,

against which he poses so called a progressivism of Obamaism.

We never had a meritocracy here.

Obama is not even a real progressive,

either.

RUFUS FEARS ON CHURCHILL NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN ETC

The Economist, 'don't want to risk a trade war..."

See my prior post:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/01/post-globalist-capitalism-on-horizon.html

Watched, last night, again,  Rufus on Churchill, and British politics, Halifax, in the 30s...............

didn't want to risk a trade war......

term search playing three sides, Mary Poppins, etc.

EAST CHINA SEA DISPUTE

US backs Japan......

(Parenthetically, WW IV, now already several years into it, in my view.)

EAST CHINA SEA CHINA JAPAN JETS

All highly predictable.

The Economist December 12 was especially illuminating re the Fortune 100

They have been systematically bilked of all value, especially by the Chinese, p 62.

When will their stock prices reflect this pathetic strategic reality?

When the flow of knock offs becomes even more of a torrent, perhaps.

POST GLOBALIST CAPITALISM ON THE HORIZON

See especially The Economist , December 12, 2012, 'Hype And Fear', p 62 63.

The Economist has to downplay things they nevertheless cover, like cyber private espionage. Here The Chinese lead the pack. 

P 63 is especially instructive. The J-20, etc., etc.

"...but it could be hard and would risk a trade war...."

Don't want to risk a trade war, when one can appease oneself into oblivion.

Please.

another blast from the past re Michael Lewis

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/07/re-noblesse-oblige-michael-lewis-npr.html

SOMEONE LIKES THIS RECENTLY WHY SHOULDN'T YOU TOO

Re boards of directors, experts, academicians, Rumpole, Rum, Maverick Executive, team play, etc.

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-academic-industrial-simpletonex.html

the menu Polish or Ukrainian holiday soup

This is dedicated to the BFF

Three or four large organic potatoes, finely sliced or diced, covered, almost, with water, in the bottom of a good pot.

Add a half cup of Ba Tam pt garlic dill pickle juice to the water, one crushed clove garlic, and a half or whole large cooking onion, finely diced.

Cook covered. Add, near the end, say 10 minutes, three tablespoons health food rendered smoked bacon fat, 
and one cup, at least, drained organic sauerkraut.

Add ground pepper and Tabasco to taste; 

no additional salt, as some of these ingredients are loaded with it already.

Chilled Riesling, or East European beer, or chilled Vodka.

G LOBOTOMIZATION GLOBALIZATION NOW FAR ADVANCED

G lobotomal global market capitalism may be unwinding faster than enthusiasts have predicted.

Market capitalism, not held in check, eventually gives itself a lobotomy: it globotomizes itself by globalizing.

That has been what we have been seeing for several decades now.

AMERICANS MAY SOON FIND OUT

PERHAPS, AN OLD STORY BY NOW.

That Apple has found out,

that their ideas are being gutted. say lobotomized, and knocked off by copycat Asian nations where their products have been made for so long.

None of that will have been a surprise for me.

RE GUNS AND THE CONSTITUTION

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/12/re-pauline-maiers-article-nyt.html

the holiday menu for Gigi

High quality panetone slices, egg and milk dipped, 
pan butter fried French toast,

whipped butter,

maple syrup, or raspberry conserve if needed,

fat link pork breakfast sausages

italian roast coffee

Background music: Dino Robbins

A USEFUL DISCUSSION ON GUNS AND MASS KILLINGS IN CONTEXT

I just started to read this.

Randall Collins' September 1, 2012 post.

re BBC the typical economist line re Japan

'Ask any economist of any stripe what Japan needs and they will give you a very similar list.

Continue reading the main story

“Start Quote

To add insult to injury, Japan has been hit hard by the global financial crisis”

Regulation needs to be loosened, foreign investment welcomed and women empowered to stay at work while raising families.'

Question: if this has not worked. in the long run, for almost all already developed economies, or for the successful developing ones, 

as we are now seeing,

why would anyone think it should work for Japan now, after a long successful developmental protectionist state period, 1950 to 1980 or so, but then 

torpedoed by the US opening to China after the Nixon Shock?

BRILLIANT DISCUSSION OF POLITICS

Randall Collins:
"MATERIAL INTERESTS ARE AMBIGUOUS MOTIVES; INTERACTION RITUAL FOCUS IS BETTER PREDICTOR OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR"

someone likes this old note on economics

Why shouldn't we reprise it now?

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/06/cobdenist-manchester-school-corn-law.html