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France 24, « Le Débat / The Debate », Wednesday February 3d, from 7:10 PM to 7:50 PM
We will ponder: “Might the financial crisis be followed by national crises?”
Alessandro Giraudo – Chief Economist, Tradition Viel (in the studio like myself)
Ondine Smulders – The Economist (calling in from Athens)
A (to be determined) Reuters Breakingviews’ journalist (calling in from London)Podcasts :
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Polar Bear Solidarity
Conceptual artist Little Shiva who helped me design Santa Crisis last year informs me she went to Copenhaguen in her capacity of a polar bear.
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Update on where we stand
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August 4th, 1789
Cityislander’s imaginative translation of “La nuit du 4 août” at the French end of this blog. Many thanks to him!
Exactly 220 years ago (the French Revolution), on the night of August 4th, 1789, the question certainly was not about systemic risk. Yet, on that very night, an event of systemic magnitude occurred:…
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Why we need to find something else
A reader of my French blog has taken the trouble of translating my most recent Friday video in English. Many thanks to him!
NEWS is conveyed by letter, word or mouth
and comes to us from North, East, West and South” (Witt’s Recreations). . . but mostly from the Paul Jorion blog…
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Santa Crisis
A blog gives you visibility, allowing people from all over with views akin to yours getting in touch. That’s what happened a couple of months ago with conceptual artist, Little Shiva asking: “What about a common project?” I told her of a possible allegory for the crisis, a symbol that you could copy here…
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What went wrong. An anthropologist’s point of view.
Here is the communication I made on March 3rd to the Socialist members of the European Parliament in Brussels as my contribution to the one-day conference entitled “Closing the casino: building a fairer and stronger real economy”
Modern societies of European origin were historically built according to a tripartite structure composed of warriors-raiders, priests…
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The danger of half-truths in a time of crisis
Published in Le Monde – Economie, March 2nd 2009 (transl. Danielle Goodman)
Let’s assume that governments are actively concerned with the interests of the populace at this very moment – an ardent hope of mine. To succeed, their actions have to benefit from a certain surprise effect so as not to be thwarted in advance…
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Time for a good laugh: patents on tax evasion
Did you know that on February 17, 2007, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., introduced comprehensive legislation to stop offshore tax haven and tax shelter abuses, the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, targeting $100 billion in lost tax revenue each year from offshore tax dodges ?
One of…
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Report and Recommendations Pursuant to Section 133 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008: Study on Mark-To-Market Accounting
The SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) along with the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) have just released their report on the valuation of financial products (Fair Value).
The subject is what I discussed in « Juste prix » et « juste valeur » and in L’implosion. La finance…
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The Madoff Affair : Crime and Punishment
Original French version at rue89.com.
Does the name “Donald Crowhurst” ring a bell? He was one of the contenders in the Golden Globe Race a non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race held in 1968–1969. While he was ahead and therefore a potential victor, his radio signals stopped abruptly. His craft was later located but it…
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Le Monde, October 12th
Here an account of my column in Le Monde on the concept of a new Bretton Woods.
Bretton Woods 2.0 – Paul Jorion on The Financial Crisis
Paul Jorion wrote a column in Le Monde a few days ago concerning the prospects of a new Bretton Woods (never mind that the original died…
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Friday Market Monitor (AM 580 CFRA), on October 17 at 2 PM (EST)
I was Walter Traversy’s guest on CFRA a news only radio station in Toronto, between 2 and 2:30 PM.
The podcast is here. I’m talking in the second part of the program … just after the weather report. But hear Walter introduce me in the nicest way at the very beginning.
I’m…
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What have anthropologists to tell about the subprime crisis that no one else has said before?
Finance is in shambles. It has remained until now under the close supervision of economic and financial theory. In recent years, due to the overbearing dominance of views developed under the umbrella of the “Chicago School” of economics, finance has been regarded as explainable through the combination of a very simplified version of psychology: that…
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The willing catalyst
On September 5th, I wrote on my French blog : “D’ici à la fin du mois il semble donc bien que les conditions d’un krach soient réunies”, meaning in proper English:
It seems therefore that from now until the end of the month the conditions for a crash are being met.
The…
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LA, 1999
At Latitude 33 in Laguna Beach, CA 92651, I saw this book called Exile or Exiles with writings about Los Angeles by famous people. I read the preface waiting for Brenda at the end of her shift at the bookstore. It said that intellectuals don’t choose LA: those who lived there had no such intent…
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Galactic Report XYZ 00098887
Sir,
I need to report to you what might be a case of acute poisoning while on mission on planet Terra.
Yesterday, in the course of my duty, I happened to hold very tight for a couple of minutes a human female (from now on HF). Today, as a consequence of this I developed…
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Where this blog stands
Various commitments on papers commissioned in French have kept me away from this blog. Reward is another factor: with an average of around 30 daily hits on the English blog and 2500 on the French one, vanity has been a powerful drive for concentrating on the French one. Dialogue is another one. If you’ve had…
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Foresight and Despair
A review of my just published book L’implosion. La finance contre l’économie: ce que révèle et annonce “la crise des subprimes” by Adrien de Tricornot in Le Monde, dated June 16th (translation by Jiro Tanaka – many thanks Jiro!)
Foresight and Despair (“Oracle, ô désespoir !”, pun on a famous line from Corneille’s play…
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Would an interruption of the Gulf Stream be reversible? And if so, at what cost?
I’m blessed with a very popular blog in French. One of the questions that came up lately in my dialogue with commentators is that of the reversibility of major ecological disasters induced by human activity and of the feasibility of reversing such disasters with the tools pertaining to our current technology.
This is a serious…