Tag Archives: Economy

GFC and the unusual suspects

A very cool thing from Time online. Vent your spleen.

Who, what, when, where and why

It has, all things considered, been quite the week.
That should clear a few things up. It still seems difficult to comprehend whatever it is that might be happening in economy and politics. Bernard Keane wrote a superb little thing midweek (and I’m not just saying that coz I pay him), ridiculing this collective sense that [...]

Markets, panic, idiocy and Galbraith

A wonderful thing in Ken Silverstein’s Washington Babylon at Harpers. He quotes John Kenneth Galbraith in his 1954 book The Great Crash:
In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings. Like most humans, most of the time, they did some very foolish things. On the whole, [...]