Vanessa Neumann (DIPLOMAT magazine editor at large) is a white child of the oligarchy connected to Venezuela. So she knows a thing or two about what is going on there.
Vanessa Neumann (DIPLOMAT magazine editor at large) is a white child of the oligarchy connected to Venezuela. So she knows a thing or two about what is going on there.
My doctor friends tell me that another English crematorium has had to spend a lot of money buying a huge US cremation machine to cope with the soaring numbers of obese people now dying whose bodies can not be squelched into a normal-size coffin. A big problem. Still, the intellectual […]
One of the core arguments for doing something about Climate Change is that it is unfair on future generations to behave badly now (pumping out carbon into the air) and lumber them with the far-reaching results of our selfishness/negligence. Which assumes various things. That, for example, the results of Climate […]
If you can face worrying about climate issues as your financial lives wobble, swing by Climate Change Daily, a wonderful resource for articles to and fro. Such as this one in Spiegel Online: Germany’s renewable energy companies are a tremendous success story. Roughly 15 percent of the country’s electricity comes […]
That sinking feeling: Investors who once considered their retirements safely protected wake up to a sinking feeling of uncertainty and gloom. Sound like the great mortgage-fueled financial crisis of 2008? Sure. But it also describes a calamity likely to hit as soon as 2009. State, local, and private pension plans […]
Every year round comes Davos, where the Important gather to comfort each other and then tell us less important folk what they really think. The Davos Journals by NRO‘s Jay Nordlinger are neatly turned reports on the mood, style and substance of these grand deliberations. This is a good example […]
An animated discussion about our financial woes over dinner in Krakow, my colleague and I allocating core blame differently. He (accountant) blamed technical accountancy practices for allowing exotic transactions which gave paper profits increasingly detached from reality. I (former civil servant) blamed the government for not spotting the bigger picture […]
A reader writes that this blog is interesting but sometimes too opinionated and very conservative. Hmm. Is she saying that it would be improved if it was more opinionated and very conservative all the time – ‘sometimes’ is just not good enough? Or that it would be better if I was […]
Suz Blog in a less than chirpy frame of mind hosts this week’s Roundup, leading with various bloggers enthusing over anti-Israel protests here in the UK. She links to Craig Murray’s latest book. Craig himself has been busy on the anti-Israel demonstration trail: I do not believe in Israel’s right […]
Gulp. The British economy is declining at a frightening rate. Not quite everywhere. A friend who runs a business not far from here selling mass-produced medical widgets here and overseas says that profits are soaring as the cheaper pound both boosts exports and makes money earned overseas worth even more […]
