My daughter got the brochure.
He specializes only in free trade and globalization.
Say no more.
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Monday, April 21, 2014
REUTERS RE EURO DEFLATION LOOMING
Flat tire globalist economies everywhere.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-old-2010-post-inflation-deflation.html
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-old-2010-post-inflation-deflation.html
Sunday, April 20, 2014
CLSSIC POST ECONOMIST OFFSHORING
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-this-is-not-recovery.html
RE DUSTY IN NEVADA
Not to defend Dusty, but when the federal government owns, and has long owned, 87% of the land in a particular state, as for instance, in Nevada, that sort of sets up an inherent problem.
The theory of national lands, as against state or local lands, is not inherently more problematic than any other federal type problem; i. e. merely rather problematic.
But, in states where the federal government owns the lion's share of all land, the problems stick out much more.
The theory of national lands, as against state or local lands, is not inherently more problematic than any other federal type problem; i. e. merely rather problematic.
But, in states where the federal government owns the lion's share of all land, the problems stick out much more.
NYT QUOTE SIMILAR TO FATEFUL ALLIANCE APPROACH OF GERMANY TO RUSSIA REAL SMART
If you just stand there, be confident and raise the cost gradually and increasingly to Russia, that doesn't solve your Crimea problem and it probably doesn't solve your eastern Ukraine problem. But it may solve your Russia problem."
IVO H. DAALDER, a former American ambassador to NATO, on one potential approach President Obama could take with President Vladimir V. Putin.
This was how the Germans quote
' solved ' their Russia problem, in the later 19th early 20th Century. Economic sanctions were a big part of it...
This aspect, of the development of international relations, is one of those where, it seems to me, that Kennan's accounts, if not quite omitting it, at the very least vastly understate its significance for diplomatic decision making.
He does talk about it at certain points, for example regarding finance and investments between Germany and Russia, as noted, and at times even bemoans the disconnect between imperial ministries of finance, trade, and war.
This aspect, of the development of international relations, is one of those where, it seems to me, that Kennan's accounts, if not quite omitting it, at the very least vastly understate its significance for diplomatic decision making.
He does talk about it at certain points, for example regarding finance and investments between Germany and Russia, as noted, and at times even bemoans the disconnect between imperial ministries of finance, trade, and war.
COLLINS ON JESUS
"One text gives a tell-tale detail: Immediately after entering Jerusalem in the palm-waving crowd, Jesus went into the temple courts. He looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he went out to the nearby village of Bethany with the Twelve. (Mark 11: 11) Jesus clearly intends to make a big scene; he is going to do it at the height of the business day, not in the slack time of late afternoon when the stalls are almost empty. Jesus always shows strategic sense.....
Why are the animals and the money changers in the temple in the first place? Because of ritualism; the animals are there to be bought as burnt sacrifices, and the money changers are to facilitate the crowd of distant visitors. But also it was the case, throughout the ancient world and in the medieval as well, that temples and churches were primary places of business, open spaces for crowds, idlers, speculators, merchants of all sorts. In Babylon and elsewhere the temples themselves acted as merchants and bankers (and may have originated such enterprises); in Phoenicia and the coastal cities of sin anathema to the Old Testament prophets, temples rented out prostitutes to travelers; Greek temples collected treasure in the form of bronze offerings and subsequently became stores of gold. Jesus no doubt had all this in mind when he set out to cleanse the temple of secular transactions corrupting its pure religious purpose."
Why are the animals and the money changers in the temple in the first place? Because of ritualism; the animals are there to be bought as burnt sacrifices, and the money changers are to facilitate the crowd of distant visitors. But also it was the case, throughout the ancient world and in the medieval as well, that temples and churches were primary places of business, open spaces for crowds, idlers, speculators, merchants of all sorts. In Babylon and elsewhere the temples themselves acted as merchants and bankers (and may have originated such enterprises); in Phoenicia and the coastal cities of sin anathema to the Old Testament prophets, temples rented out prostitutes to travelers; Greek temples collected treasure in the form of bronze offerings and subsequently became stores of gold. Jesus no doubt had all this in mind when he set out to cleanse the temple of secular transactions corrupting its pure religious purpose."
Saturday, April 19, 2014
re DK POST YEATS
'The best lack all conviction,
while the worst are full of passionate intensity.'
How, when the worst are full of passionate intensity, could the best accomplish anything, without any conviction?
I guess that is, perhaps, the point.
while the worst are full of passionate intensity.'
How, when the worst are full of passionate intensity, could the best accomplish anything, without any conviction?
I guess that is, perhaps, the point.
A FEW HYPOTHESES FOLLOWING HUNTINGTON LOOSELY
Let's hypothesize, for instance, that civilizations themselves, whatever you think civilizations means, are, inherently, hostile to all other, not just each other, civilization(s).
We have seen this repeatedly throughout history, but it might not be right, after all.
I am willing to be corrected on this, believe me.
We have seen this repeatedly throughout history, but it might not be right, after all.
I am willing to be corrected on this, believe me.
DK ' DUSTY ' STORY
"The second episode is truly astonishing, and potentially even more serious. In Nevada, a rancher, Cliven Bundy, who has been illegally grazing cattle on federal land and refusing to pay fines for about twenty years, forced the Bureau of Land Management to stop rounding up his cattle with the help of armed militiamen from all over the West. Fox News covered the story in detail, cheering Bundy on for defying the federal government. "
Terms search: Dusty, muttrin
Terms search: Dusty, muttrin
GREAT PASSAGE GREAT QUESTIONS
"...In 2010, Warren met with President Obama in the Oval Office, and he informed her that he could not make her the head of the the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which she had just designed, because of objections from Senate Republicans and bankers. “You make them very nervous,” he told her. In a second meeting, he browbeat her into doing additional work on the design of the agency anyway.
"Now there are two questions that immediately occur to me, questions that I would like to pose to President Obama. First of all, can you name one instance in which George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and the rest of the Bush II White House decided not to do anything because it would make Democrats in Congress and labor unions nervous?.... But the second question is more fundamental. How on earth can we fix our financial woes without making Wall Street nervous? Does the President really not understand that the crash came, and the next one will come, precisely because our financial institutions have much too much power and much too much money?...."
RE RE DK POST AND MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES LEGALITIES WIKIPEDIA
"One critical component of the securitization system in the US market is the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) created in 1990s, which created a private system wherein underlying mortgages were assigned and reassigned outside of the traditional county-level recording process. The legitimacy and overall accuracy of this alternative recording system have faced serious challenges with the onset of the mortgage crisis: as the US courts flood with foreclosure cases, the inadequacies of the MERS model are being exposed, and both local and federal governments have begun to take action through suits of their own and the refusal (in some jurisdictions) of the courts to recognize the legal authority of MERS assignments.[53] The assignment of mortgage (deed of trust) and note (obligation to pay the debt) paperwork outside of the traditional US county courts (and without recordation fee payment) is subject to legal challenge. Legal inconsistencies in MERS originally appeared trivial, but they may reflect dysfunctionality in the entire US mortgage securitization industry."
"....Legal inconsistencies in MERS originally appeared trivial, but they may reflect dysfunctionality in the entire US mortgage securitization industry."
For whom could such matters ever have originally appeared trivial?
For whom could use of MERS ever have appeared legal in any state?
It is hard to believe that these matters might ever have appeared trivial to knowledgeable real estate or business transactions lawyers, in any state.
Who advised Wall Street banks regarding MBS' legality ?
I suspect the advice was "Don't do it," but of course lawyers do not run these, or most any, companies.
Reference from an old post found on Krugman's blog in 2010:
http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/foreclosure-fraud-for-dummies-1-the-chains-and-the-stakes/
"....Legal inconsistencies in MERS originally appeared trivial, but they may reflect dysfunctionality in the entire US mortgage securitization industry."
For whom could such matters ever have originally appeared trivial?
For whom could use of MERS ever have appeared legal in any state?
It is hard to believe that these matters might ever have appeared trivial to knowledgeable real estate or business transactions lawyers, in any state.
Who advised Wall Street banks regarding MBS' legality ?
I suspect the advice was "Don't do it," but of course lawyers do not run these, or most any, companies.
Reference from an old post found on Krugman's blog in 2010:
http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/foreclosure-fraud-for-dummies-1-the-chains-and-the-stakes/
Friday, April 18, 2014
POP LYRICS AND A CERTAIN VIEW OF GOD RANDALL COLLINS
' “What does not kill me, makes me stronger,” Nietzsche was to write. Ironically: for all his attacks on the moral revolution of Christianity, this is a Christian discovery he is citing. Religious techniques set precedents for modern secular politics. Protest movements win by attracting widespread sympathy for their public sufferings, turning the moral tables on those who use superior force against them. This too is world-changing. It is little exaggeration to say that the moral forces of the modern world were first visible in the Jesus movement.'
US CHINA RUSSIA JAPAN NIXON SHOCK
RATHER LIKE THE FRANCO RUSSIAN ALLIANCE BEFORE WWI WHAT
But which 'alliance' is fateful, w China after Nixon shock, or w Japan since WWII and now?
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post.html
But which 'alliance' is fateful, w China after Nixon shock, or w Japan since WWII and now?
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post.html
RE UNIVERSAL WARMING FOUND ALREADY UNDER WAY 2007 EG MARS
Googling terms universal warming, they have long already jumped to this idea apparently. Confirming, or at least not confuting the Hot Butt Hypothesis.
There are already a number of scientists ready to jump on board.
Here is a blog, great name, discussing this phenomenon:
http://gustofhotair.blogspot.com/2007/04/universal-warming.html
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/11/4/australian-temperatures.html
There are already a number of scientists ready to jump on board.
Here is a blog, great name, discussing this phenomenon:
http://gustofhotair.blogspot.com/2007/04/universal-warming.html
"Skeptics over global warming have jumped on news
that Mars is heating up to back their skepticism that
humans are causing global warming on Earth.
The research, coming from U.S. planetary scientists, suggests that Mars warmed by about 0.65C from the 1970s to the 1990s. This is similar to Earth’s 0.6C average temperature rise during the 20th century.
'It could be coincidental or it might be the needle in the haystack,' said climatologist William Kininmonth, former head of the National Climate Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
Kininmonth said that the research, which was published
in the journal Nature, showed that there was enough
natural climate variability to explain global warming on
Earth."
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