So unfair to defend or subsidize one's industries or peoples. Shame on those Europeans.
Remember that it was Clinton who drove that one (WTO) through, on the tail of NAFTA,
A REPUBLICAN INITIATIVE, BUT HE WAS THOROUGHLY ON BOARD.
MY WIFE SAYS THINGS LIKE 'HE ONLY DID IT TO TRY TO GET RE ELECTED',
AS IF THAT WERE SOMEHOW A VALID AND COMPLETE EXCUSE.
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Monday, November 5, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
TERMS SEARCH
soft power, Steingart, etc.
See eg: http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/11/re-bbc-china-buys-stake-in-heathrow.html
See eg: http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/11/re-bbc-china-buys-stake-in-heathrow.html
RE BBC OKINAWA
I say just clear the Americans from Okinawa and rely from here on out on:
Term search: Mary Poppins
Thursday, November 1, 2012
RE BBC CHINA BUYS STAKE IN HEATHROW AIRPORT
This is just a tiny example, of what one now often sees, with relatively unbridled so called market capitalism.
Can you say ' leverage decline ' re UK versus China, or China versus other global power players?
Australia has been selling big contracts to them for a long time now.
What if the deals, some time, somehow, for some unforeseen reason, need to be unwound?
Will it just be a little matter of money?
Term search: Mary Poppins, Popper, playing three sides, etc.
Can you say ' leverage decline ' re UK versus China, or China versus other global power players?
Australia has been selling big contracts to them for a long time now.
What if the deals, some time, somehow, for some unforeseen reason, need to be unwound?
Will it just be a little matter of money?
Term search: Mary Poppins, Popper, playing three sides, etc.
Monday, October 29, 2012
SHORT SIGHTED ASIA INDIA SUCKING UP
TYPICAL NOW OF ANGLOPHONE LAISSEZ FAIRE NATIONS THE WORLD OVER.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20114032
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20114032
Saturday, October 27, 2012
RE BBC CHINESE PISSED OVER NYT SCANDAL RAG SELL THOSE NEWSPAPERS TO BOZOS
Who can blame them, shameless globalist panders west, versus globalist authoritarians east.
BBC DUKING IT OUT, IN BETWEEN, maybe something there to observe, re the so called global press?
In the words of Thurow, they, all three, each need to go head to head.
BBC DUKING IT OUT, IN BETWEEN, maybe something there to observe, re the so called global press?
In the words of Thurow, they, all three, each need to go head to head.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
POIGNANT AN OLD MORGAN STANLEY VETERAN NO WHERE REALLY TO TURN NOW
http://www.resourceinvestor.com/2012/10/25/why-i-bailed-on-gold?ref=hp
I can well understand the feeling, and the longish background, going back into the 60s really.
Conservative professionals, everywhere, losing their ass now.
No good investment decisions, or nowadays really talking about trades, nor more buy and holds, left, really, to be made.
Term search: cashing in their chips
I can well understand the feeling, and the longish background, going back into the 60s really.
Conservative professionals, everywhere, losing their ass now.
No good investment decisions, or nowadays really talking about trades, nor more buy and holds, left, really, to be made.
Term search: cashing in their chips
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
re the larger disaster looming behind the financial one
Americans have been lead to believe that it has been mainly a financial debacle that has been under way.
Grounds for this are that the so called US economy (nothing like this really exists anymore) has become overly financialized.
That tells only the part of the story.
How did the what- it- used- to-be economy get over financialized in the first place?
Grounds for this are that the so called US economy (nothing like this really exists anymore) has become overly financialized.
That tells only the part of the story.
How did the what- it- used- to-be economy get over financialized in the first place?
Sunday, October 21, 2012
AN INTERESTING ESSAY BY RANDALL COLLINS
I HAVE ONLY STARTED TO READ IT:
"MATERIAL INTERESTS ARE AMBIGUOUS MOTIVES; INTERACTION RITUAL FOCUS IS BETTER PREDICTOR OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR"
"MATERIAL INTERESTS ARE AMBIGUOUS MOTIVES; INTERACTION RITUAL FOCUS IS BETTER PREDICTOR OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR"
RE EAST CHINA SEA TENSIONS CHINA JAPAN
Hopefully this will continue an ' uncoupling ' process, re a coupling that has been going on now for many decades.
Term search: playing three sides, Nixon shock, Mary Poppins, weasel, etc.
Term search: playing three sides, Nixon shock, Mary Poppins, weasel, etc.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
term search Thurston Howell Boca etc
Re Thurston Howell Romney, I had said it all back in 06,
and in Boca too!
There are ' property rights ',
and then there are big big big property rights.
and in Boca too!
There are ' property rights ',
and then there are big big big property rights.
many viewers like this one
Who knows why.
It shows a very old cello belly, off, and the bottom block area of the belly, where prior bottom block outlines, and recent and older repairs of cracks, including plugs or patches or whatever they are called, share the photo view.
Some of these were quite old, some looked much more recent, throughout the body.
It shows a very old cello belly, off, and the bottom block area of the belly, where prior bottom block outlines, and recent and older repairs of cracks, including plugs or patches or whatever they are called, share the photo view.
Some of these were quite old, some looked much more recent, throughout the body.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
RE KEVIN PHILLIPS BAD MONEY
"THE U.S. POLITICAL SYSTEM IS NOT BROKEN....BUT BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES HAVE CALCIFIED...."
He really will not tackle deeper issues, recent or older, here; he sees all as hunky dory if only the parties would get it together.
He fails to see, or better, refuses to discuss, that always, since the beginning really, say 1776 and before, structural problems have enabled party problems to be blamed, rather than structural ones.
He takes a broad historical perspective. Goes way back into history, everywhere, back to Rome, etc.
Reminds one of Niall's gyrations.
He talks, every few pages or so, about things he claims neither party's politicians will talk about..........................and points at other recent doleful financial and geopolitical trends the average American can know little about................
Yet, he mentions the Civil War, a hello long standing structural problem here, only once, p 124, for a tangential non point about oil.
Why have politcal parties calcified?
When did that start? (He wants to imply it is somehow a recent development, in an otherwise virtuous political history.)
Why?
Take a guess.
He does talk about structural problems in ch 6 somewhat, but backs away from calling it other than party schlerosis.
At p 156, he sets out his theory from 40 years ago, in a sentence, if subsequent history does not correspond, he calls it a schlerosis of the party system, not the political system structure itself.
He really will not tackle deeper issues, recent or older, here; he sees all as hunky dory if only the parties would get it together.
He fails to see, or better, refuses to discuss, that always, since the beginning really, say 1776 and before, structural problems have enabled party problems to be blamed, rather than structural ones.
He takes a broad historical perspective. Goes way back into history, everywhere, back to Rome, etc.
Reminds one of Niall's gyrations.
He talks, every few pages or so, about things he claims neither party's politicians will talk about..........................and points at other recent doleful financial and geopolitical trends the average American can know little about................
Yet, he mentions the Civil War, a hello long standing structural problem here, only once, p 124, for a tangential non point about oil.
Why have politcal parties calcified?
When did that start? (He wants to imply it is somehow a recent development, in an otherwise virtuous political history.)
Why?
Take a guess.
He does talk about structural problems in ch 6 somewhat, but backs away from calling it other than party schlerosis.
At p 156, he sets out his theory from 40 years ago, in a sentence, if subsequent history does not correspond, he calls it a schlerosis of the party system, not the political system structure itself.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
RE THE MARKET CALITALIST WORLD OF EDUCATION AND EXPERTISE SHARING
"....Today's universities have an insatiable appetite for cash, and thereby have to cater, in dozens of ways, to those who can provide it. Quite a few, including my own alma mater Harvard, have turned their endowments into hedge funds and thus experienced both the pre-2007 boom and the disastrous 2008 crash. (To be fair, Harvard's endowment just reported a flat year, indicating that its new manager, Janet Mendillo, has in fact adopted much more conservative strategies.) Dr. Hubbard's career is another example of how they function as one side of a triangle that also includes the financial services sector and government...." David Kaiser
I would add that, re our higher educational system, we have systematically given away what Randall Collins calls cultural capital to underdeveloped countries whose goal is to pull abreast and then overtake us.
Our laissez faire higher educational system, though an enormous market capitalist bubble for us, has frankly been of less benefit to Americans than to foreigners in recent decades.
In this sense it has paralleled our market capitalist corporate commercial and industrial sectors closely,
and, once again, according to analogous principles as Collins has pointed out.
The internet has facilitated this trend, a technology which, once again, we also pioneered, then offered to them as well.
Never, in the history of human conflict,
has so much been given away,
by so few,
to so many,
for so little,
so rapidly. Paraphrasing Churchill.
I should point out, parenthetically, that my inferences from some of Collins' views would not be shared by him, based on some of his views, eg that 'we are all one, under the skin', things like that.....
although this seems to me inconsistent with his theory of change as based on conflict, it is what it is apparently, for him.
I would add that, re our higher educational system, we have systematically given away what Randall Collins calls cultural capital to underdeveloped countries whose goal is to pull abreast and then overtake us.
Our laissez faire higher educational system, though an enormous market capitalist bubble for us, has frankly been of less benefit to Americans than to foreigners in recent decades.
In this sense it has paralleled our market capitalist corporate commercial and industrial sectors closely,
and, once again, according to analogous principles as Collins has pointed out.
The internet has facilitated this trend, a technology which, once again, we also pioneered, then offered to them as well.
Never, in the history of human conflict,
has so much been given away,
by so few,
to so many,
for so little,
so rapidly. Paraphrasing Churchill.
I should point out, parenthetically, that my inferences from some of Collins' views would not be shared by him, based on some of his views, eg that 'we are all one, under the skin', things like that.....
although this seems to me inconsistent with his theory of change as based on conflict, it is what it is apparently, for him.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
COMPETITIVENESS ALWAYS WAS A MISNOMER FOR ME
Nationalism is really what it should have been about.
'Competitiveness' terminology begs the whole question,
and gives the discussion into the hands of economists,
who have monopolized what economic rivalry is supposed to be about, including the bouger of protectionism
and to ignorant politicians like Gore, who, for example, waved a copy of Smoot Hawley in a debate over NAFTA, as if that won the intellectual day for NAFTA.
'Competitiveness' terminology begs the whole question,
and gives the discussion into the hands of economists,
who have monopolized what economic rivalry is supposed to be about, including the bouger of protectionism
and to ignorant politicians like Gore, who, for example, waved a copy of Smoot Hawley in a debate over NAFTA, as if that won the intellectual day for NAFTA.
RE RULES FOR CRAFTSMANSHIP DAVID BROOKS
No one person, or even small group of persons could, possibly, 'fix' our political system,
which needs drastic structural overhaul and consolidation, not ever more, decades in, decades out, presidential politics drivel.
And please don't bring up something like EJ Dionne's 'vital center', the kind of bipartisan mutual myopia that kept us in this downward spiral since WW II at least, as a fix in Brooks' terms.
The bipartisan 'vital center', after WWII, is really what got us here.
which needs drastic structural overhaul and consolidation, not ever more, decades in, decades out, presidential politics drivel.
And please don't bring up something like EJ Dionne's 'vital center', the kind of bipartisan mutual myopia that kept us in this downward spiral since WW II at least, as a fix in Brooks' terms.
The bipartisan 'vital center', after WWII, is really what got us here.
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