Friday, 14 March 2014

Talks in London to defuse Crimea crisis reach ‘no common vision,’ Lavrov says - The Washington Post

Guess it's time to bunker down and go off to war, kill a few more millions or billions to save the planet of the human scourge as Gorbechov would explain?  Oh, what the hell!

Chinese Debt Worries - NYTimes.com

Better worker pay would lead to greater prosperity for all — including the rich | Dallas Morning News

Should we worry about inequality? - Livemint

Yes! If you want growth ......

Euro Area — “Deflation” Versus “Lowflation” | iMFdirect - The IMF Blog

Fear of Wages - NYTimes.com

California earthquake: Should we expect more aftershocks? (+video) - CSMonitor.com

Did secret CIA whistle-blower leak to the Senate? (+video) - CSMonitor.com

Maybe secret services are fascist services?

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg gripes to Obama about NSA. Why the dislike? - CSMonitor.com

Zuckerberg wins! 

Senate holds global warming all-nighter: Why 4 Dems will be no-shows - CSMonitor.com

Some states have issues others don't, but without a good public education / radio / TV system in America it's anyone's bet where people's views will go. Churches are the schools about real social issues. Still some claim it's better than being told lies as in Russia. 'Nothing information' is better than false facts? 

Is there a war on curves? Pi'ers say no.....

The 10 apps you need to keep prying eyes away from your mobile messages and data | ZDNet

Is there a sequel to NoSQL? - The Next Web

Intel's new 1.6Tbps optical cabling leave copper in the dust | ZDNet

Backdoor in Samsung Galaxy devices 'allows remote access to data' | ZDNet

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

4 million Baby Boomers have retired since 2008: Effect on stocks » Market Realist

Putin needs help with his economics, but he is very popular and no one I know believes he has $50 billion socked away. He seems to be more like Russia's John Wayne.

Putin could talk to me? 

Paul Ryan’s Lunch Bag Lie | Taking Liberties | Shepherd Express

Such strong anti-Ryan rhetoric seems scary if justified! 

Paul Krugman takes on the inflation paranoiacs - The Week

Alphonso L. R. Smith of the Bahamas has written of his family's slave past. 


Get a copy and support him....

As regards inflation from too much government spending:

"The problem is that historically in real terms all growth favours income distribution towards the haves rather than the have-nots. We want growth, but the penalty from government intervention to stimulate growth is often a further worsening of income distribution. Lord Keynes / Krugman should have read Hicks or Joseph Schumpeter! Growth policies require redistribution measures in the form of a tax on the main beneficiaries which are those who invest in growth. Without positive redistribution, we end up with the communism of Italy and Russia, OR social fascism which is a far sight WORSE than Swedish style socialism or Norwegian capitalism or Dutch socialism, or Canadian capitalism. It is ludicrous to argue that no growth would occur from taxing the investing richer beneficiaries in an era when those benefiting most are not only not taxed, but are subsidized as well.... Those that have or benefit from the surpluses from growth should help those that don't. If they don't, then capitalism won't work and the rich will see turmoil and slower growth than is possible. America needs to work towards growth and redistrution of surpluses to increase the growth investor pool. It is pragmatic policy."

Arthur Lake

Paul Krugman takes on the inflation paranoiacs - The Week

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