Ouch! The whole of cosmology was standing on its head, and now it’s back on its feet! And everything becomes…
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QUESTIONS STILL IN NEED TO BE SOLVED (II) PROFIT, THE SOURCE OF ALL OUR ILLS
An English translation by Jean-Loup Komarower of the post QUESTIONS À RÉSOUDRE (II) LE PROFIT, SOURCE DE TOUS NOS MAUX
Robert Owen (1771-1858) was a Welsh social reformer, one of the founders of the cooperative movement. As a very early socialist who was blamed for being strictly speaking a “communist”, he considered profit as the
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QUESTIONS STILL IN NEED TO BE SOLVED (I) ARE ALL EARNINGS TRULY DESERVED?
An English translation of my post QUESTIONS À RÉSOUDRE (I) TOUS CEUX QUI SONT RÉMUNÉRÉS LE MÉRITENT-ILS VRAIMENT?
There is a question that neeeds to be answered at all costs; 19th century thinkers have devoted much thought towards its solution. Here it is: when we consider rent obtained by a landowner or by the
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“No Matter What We Do, It Will Still Be The Same”
An English translation by Bernard Bouvet of my « QUOI QU’ON FASSE, CE SERA LA MÊME CHOSE ! » of March 11.
77% of you, my dear blog readers, not all of you, but a “comfortable majority” of you, happens to be French. Your country is now in full “election showbiz” mode,
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GREEK DEBT SPECULATORS, NEUTRALISED
An English translation by Bernard Bouvet of my post “Les spéculateurs sur la dette grecque, neutralisés”.
Last Friday’s ruling by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) that the much talked about Greek debt swap, or the so-called private sector initiative (PSI), does not represent a “credit event” and, therefore does not trigger Credit
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Hellenic Securitisation S.A. – Request for Information, by Panagiotis Grigoriou
Guest post. Translated from the French by Bernard Bouvet.
This is Athens!
We are barely able to recover from Memorandum 2 (see the latest entry (Sightseeing Athens) on my blog “Greek Crisis”). The Shock Strategy, when undergone as a…patient, doesn’t give you any respite. Multi-risk, multi-faceted, a total weapon. In the
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A THREAT (ALMOST) WITHOUT PRECEDENT
An English translation by Bernard Bouvet of my post Une menace sans précédent (ou presque).
You will recall what Dick Cheney, the former U.S. Vice President, said at the time, it was 2001, about Saddam Hussein? No, not that, I mean before there was any question of “weapons of mass destruction.” Cheney’s affirmation
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MR. STIGLITZ HASN’T BEEN TIPPED OFF
An English translation by Bernard Bouvet of my post: M. Stiglitz n’est pas au courant.
What caused it? Is it the one year 7% decline in Greece’s GDP in 2011, 16% altogether since the crisis began in 2007? Or perhaps the defections among members of the Greek parliament during Sunday’s vote, followed by exclusions
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IT IS TIME TO RESTRUCTURE CAPITALISM
An English translation which can be read here of my post “Refonder le capitalisme”: Le moment est venu by Frankly.
It Is Time to Restructure Capitalism
Is there anything more depressing than the spectacle of the short-term remedies that are being applied at present with a view to
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CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY – “HOW DOES ONE BECOME THE ANTHROPOLOGIST OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS?” – November 7, 2011 – 5:30pm
I’ll be holding a seminar on the following topics :
“How does one become the anthropologist of the financial crisis? Fieldwork, participant observation, the closed world of bankers and what makes the anthropologist’s toolbox so special”
More information here.
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Gale Warning on Market Risk Management
On Friday, in a single forward-market trading session, gold lost 5.8% of its value, and silver lost 17.8%. Considering the present state of the financial markets and the overall condition of the economy, which for the past few weeks has been entering the second phase of the ‘W’ double dip which began in 2007, this might
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