30 July 2011

Δραστική



-Poderá ser DRÁSTICO...
Mas eu não sei quanto..., disse, 
em voz tão lenta 
quanto parkinsónica 

Δραστική

FIQUEI FARTO DO SEU ESTILO 

EXMO DR PROFESSOR DE CÁLCULO

Disciplina B, segundo trimestre;

. Monetarismo  

. Financiamento NeoLiberal

. IMF

LACK OF TRUST

MAS TUDO Acaba sempre da mesma maneira

Conclusão: 

Paga o Desgraçado,
Ri-se a Prostituta.
Dorme o sem-abrigo em sonhos de vinho de cartão

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Δραστική quer apenas dizer  activo.

Did I mention that the European Central Bank — although not, thankfully, the Federal Reserve — seems determined to make things even worse by raising interest rates?  - Paul Krugman

22 July 2011

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus

Ώδινεν όρος και έτεκε μυν

A Montanha pariu um rato


11. 
All euro area Member States will adhere strictly to the agreed fiscal targets, 
improve competitiveness and address macro-economic imbalances. 
Public deficits in all countriesexcept those under a programme 
will be brought below 3% by 2013 at the latest. 
In this context, 
we welcome the budgetary package recently presented by the Italian government
which will enable it to bring the deficit below 3% in 2012 
and to achieve balance budget in 2014. 
We also welcome the ambitious reforms undertaken by Spain in the fiscal, 
financial and structural area. 
As a follow up to the results of bank stress tests, 
Member States will provide backstops to banks as appropriate.

in STATEMENT BY THE HEADS OF STATE OR GOVERNMENT OF THE EURO AREA
AND EU INSTITUTIONS

Brussels, 21 July 2011
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painting by Lucien Freud
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21 July 2011

LAST FLIGHT



High Flight
.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
.
 — John Gillespie Magee, Jr
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
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On 3 September 1941, Magee flew a high altitude (30,000 feet) test flight in a newer model of the Spitfire V. 
As he orbited and climbed upward, 
he was struck with the inspiration of a poem — 
"To touch the face of God."
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19 July 2011

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
.


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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


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Getty Image
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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
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06 July 2011

JUNK


Σκουπίδια
And Finally
Portugal
Became
Garbage
Junk
@
EUROZONE
(or)
The
FALL
Off
THE
EMPIRE
{Part 1}
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photo by APress
In the Mood...
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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
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Odious Debt
J. M. Keynes
Paul Krugman
Behavioral Finance
Debtocracy ΧΡΕΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ
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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.

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Τρεις Χάριτες

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Waiting

Waiting a Vanishing Light to move in Silence ..