14 July 2011

EUROSCLEROSIS



Boliqueime
Brussels
or
Frankfurt

 The Old Toothless Aunt
is
No longer  able to drink Tea
with
Scones...

Europe
is not
a
credible
Bridge 
player
.


.

08 July 2011

MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM



It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, 
the brewer or the baker, 
that we expect our dinner, 
but from their regard to their own self interest. 
We address ourselves, 
not to their humanity but to their self-love, 
and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
 .
Adam Smith
 .
Fundamentalists believe that markets tend towards equilibrium 
and the common interest 
is best served by allowing participants to pursue their self-interest. 
It is an obvious misconception, 
because it was the intervention of the authorities 
that prevented financial markets from breaking down, 
not the markets themselves. 
Nevertheless, 
market fundamentalism emerged as the dominant ideology in the 1980s, 
when financial markets started to become globalized
and the US started to run a current account deficit.
 .
George Soros


The great enemies of capitalist stability 
have always been 
war
and 
depression.
.
 Paul Krugman


.
Getty Image
.

07 July 2011

dying is fine)but Death



dying is fine)but Death

?o
baby
i

wouldn't like

Death if Death
were
good:for

when(instead of stopping to think)you

begin to feel of it,dying
's miraculous
why?be

cause dying is

perfectly natural;perfectly
putting
it mildly lively(but

Death

is strictly
scientific
& artificial &

evil & legal)

we thank thee
god
almighty for dying
(forgive us,o life!the sin of Death
 
e.e.cummings 
 
.
Em Memória de Maria José Nogueira Pinto
.

06 July 2011

JUNK


Σκουπίδια
And Finally
Portugal
Became
Garbage
Junk
@
EUROZONE
(or)
The
FALL
Off
THE
EMPIRE
{Part 1}
.
photo by APress
In the Mood...
.
 

05 July 2011

Απεχθές Χρέος


ODIOUS DEBT


We have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, 
having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, 
the working of which we do not understand. 
The result is that our possibilities of wealth may run to waste for a time 
— perhaps for a long time-.

John Maynard Keynes
.
Odious Debt
J. M. Keynes
Paul Krugman
Behavioral Finance
Debtocracy ΧΡΕΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ
.

04 July 2011

Τρεις Χάριτες


ILLUSION OF CONTROL


Homo Politicus
Homo Economicus
Homo Peregrinus

-People are Myopic
And 
Live In a Cognitive Illusion - said HPo.

-ZIRP - said HEc.

-Oh My Dear Prime Minister
I do Not Agree @ all.
They See Very Well 
and as Much as I Know
They Are Watching Us
Very Attentively.
And it seems more
Liquidity Trap than ZIRP dear Viktor! - HPe.

.

Τρεις Χάριτες

.

30 June 2011

DELETED


RIP

Requiescat in pace
.
Φράουλες με Ζάχαρη
.

19th Nervous Breakdown





You better stop, 
look around
Here it comes, 
here it comes, 
here it comes, 
here it comes,
Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown.
 
 
.
Do We Really Need Europe? 
.

27 June 2011

CREATIVE DESTRUCTION


CREATIVE


DESTRUCTION

The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion 
comes from the new consumers’ goods, 
the new methods of production or transportation, 
the new markets, 
the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.
 

Joseph Schumpeter

 .
 

25 June 2011

Μοναξιά


SOLITUDE


There is a solitude of space
A solitude of sea
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself --
Finite infinity.

Emily Dickinson
 .
Why, sister?
.


Clara Ferreira Alves
Bilderberg 2011
St. Moritz
.
 

Waiting

Waiting a Vanishing Light to move in Silence ..