Is
the drop in the value of oil a diagnostic marker similar to a sudden severe drop in blood pressure?
Trump
This: Donald
says he is “self-funding” his entire campaign for dictator
president although he has only put up $100,000 of his own money so
far – while an aviation company he owns has been paid $723,000 so
far by his campaign – which reports $4 million in contributions so
far. He seems unclear on the distinction between self-funding and
funding himself.
The
Choice: Clinton:
Settle for what the Republicans will give us. Sanders: Work for what we know right.
The
Slide: For
those following along at home, the Atlanta Fed's guess about the US
Q4GDP growth has declined from 2.9% (Nov 2015) to today's 0.6%.
Off-Brand:
While we were watching
the daily gyrations
of the Dow 30 and
S&P 500, the Russel 2000 has fallen 23% from its peak. So far.
The
Peacemaker:
Explaining that the new regulations were a health and safety measure
and had nothing to do with any religion or religious practice,
Benjamin Netanyahu is
calling for a complete ban on the "unbearable
noise" Imams make
when calling the faithful to prayer.
Understatement:
“Small oil price
declines may be expansionary through usual channels, but really big
declines set in motion a process of forced deleveraging among
producers that can be a significant drag on the world economy.”
Closer
To Home:
PM David
Cameron has
authorized
an investigation into the
funding and other support various domestic extremist and jihadi
groups have received from Saudi Arabia. It was fine for the Saudis
to bankroll ISIS, but blowing up Bloomsbury is a bit cheeky.
Quoted:
“The world is full
of nations and rulers that are fighting for bare survival. And things
like that don’t play out on a short term basis.”
Tell
Me Again About The March of Civilization:
Pakistan
has ruled that banning child marriage would be “blasphemous” and
“anti-Islamic”. For several months before the media brought it
to our attention, the UN was aware of the mass
starvation being forced on the people of Madaya by the Assad
regime. Gang
rape, torture and mass killings have become common in Burundi as
law and order collapses. Kuwait
Airlines is abandoning its NY to London route because it might
have to fly an Israeli. Al-Qaida, in an attempt to regain some
relevance, has attacked
a hotel in Burkina Faso, killing at least 20, to no particular
end. And
the world's 62
richest
people
hold as much wealth as
the poorest 3,500,000,000 of us mere mortals.
Rewrite:
Tyler Cowen's
essay, Can economics
change your mind?
would have been of more
interest if he'd asked “Can economists change their minds?”
Mulligan:
A week ago the Dallas Fed met with banksters and told them they
didn't have to mark their heavily impaired energy-sector loans and
investments “to market”
because that would make the banks look weak
and the
Fed
foolish. Is
that sound I hear a domino falling?
Choice
Multiples: The
US explained that two of its small naval craft ventured into Iranian
territorial waters due to (1) Iranian aggression, (2) unspecified
mechanical failure, (3) “inadvertently drifted into Iranian waters,
(4) navigation errors, (5) all of the above, one after the other.
Huh?
The self-centered and essentially clueless Uber passenger who was
videoed committing the crime of assault and battery is now suing the
driver for $5 million for recording the crime. His lawyer probably
offices with the bunch that think they can copyright
the names of our national parks.
The
Parting Shot:
5 comments:
thanks for the link to bernie's "medicare for all" brochure
who knows what the future holds of marvel or surprise?
Tell Me: Bad enough the 'I need my own planet' crowd is quick to tell the rest of us what displeases them but worse is how they figure, since they're here, this planet must be THEIRS!
Leaving the rest of us in the indefensible position of 'trespassers'.
Do you think the 'self-entitled' will find a police force to remove the 'intruders'?
Sort of redefines the term 'money-motivated', doesn't it?
RE "Huh?": Sadly, that's the sort of thing that passes for "logic" in Trump's universe. Not to mention the direction various state governments are going with laws that ban photographing the poor folks who just happen to be violating environmental regulations.
Is the future looking Pinker? Steven Pinker has an interesting book, but one wonders if the line Steven draws will continue on the same slope. In the past technology has mostly served to disrupt the power of elite, whether it was the cross-bow in China or the printing press in the West. Now it's a race between the power to liberate and the power to control. China just opened it's first factory for clones in Tianjin. I suspect we may be heading for an inflection point. The question may become are human cattle at peace in a factory better than a messy, violent world?
"For several months before the media brought it to our attention, the UN was aware of the mass starvation being forced on the people of Madaya by the Assad regime."
You betray your biased ignorance of events in Syria.
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