Was the rumble of distant thunder heard in DC this last January? Some hold thunder in January means the presidency becomes vacant, as if it were occupied now. Even Buchanan or Pierce had more presence in office, […]

From El País English this report on 18 April 2013;

http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/04/18/inenglish/1366300688_590533.html

Lagarde: Spain needs more time to cut public deficit
IMF managing director points to […]

Why is it not surprising the last several heads of IMF have been publicly exposed having skeletons in their closets? The job description apparently calls for such obscurities. And the exposure always seems to […]

Exactly correct if your universe is corrupted to and including the bone. Question is: what was it before corruption occurred? why is it no longer operating in that fashion? how can that be corrected? is correction […]

Al Jazeera is reporting on this escalation of supposed debt as well:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/04/2013411201738990624.html

with the additional information that Cyprus’ national reserves of […]

@ Thomas Lord April 6,2013 at 1:39
Thank doG brevity is restricted to bumper stickers and fools! It is a shame ignorance cannot be restricted to the same. Oh, wait a mom…

I am quite sure your slate of […]

Just to bring attention to two points.
First: It is erroneous that all currencies are fiat, at least in my reading of historical economics. Fiat currencies were contemporaneous with metallic currency. Precious […]

First: When you a commoner Don Henry, I’ll start believing in flat earths. A little humility is in order, anyone who can track and account for: seasons, crops, animal husbandry, finances, banking, markets and […]

To respectfully differ, although an extensively as well as a competently written essay, it conflates economic investment in economic production with financial (wealth ownership) investment requiring ROI as having […]

Again, mention here also of petroleum must be made. Cyprus coastal waters cover an estimated several trillion cubic meters of petroleum products. Access to this wealth is much easier when the existing government […]

Arriving at a suspicion, the reason Cyprus is experiencing the kind attentions of IMF and EU Central Bank at this moment, lays under the sea floor surrounding that island in the form of natural gas deposits. What […]

@ 233ºC
This is again an example of willful ignorance and intellectual sloth that have overcome the populations of the so called first world. You might as well bash your head against a stone as try to have a […]

Thanks, well done.

For a longtime expatriate, The Agonist as a portal to the ‘murican circus is unexcelled. Count me as a full-hearted supporter of your efforts to continue, whatever it takes. All the best………..

Can someone help Celsius 233 regain access. With the change to the new format their password no longer works. Please leave instructions and a knowledgable contributor can regain their voice in these parts. Thanks […]

Excepting the mentally ill and the developmentally disabled, everyone else seems to be deranged. Has the whole country gone off the tracks. And don’t tell me PRIVATIZATION.

Thanks for the link, anecdotal though it was, the message needs to be widely understood, we do not know much about our very minds, what makes them work, what makes then ill, what makes them well or even what makes […]

One such invasion movie will never be equalled – The Mouse that Roared

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared_(film)

starring Peter Sellers and others.

One of the benefits of dyslexic […]

What are the chances of a Scottish Republic? or will the toffs still rule? Might be interesting to claim everything north of Hadrian’s Wall and negotiate from there. Too bad the Catalan independence movement […]

Chuffed, aren’t you?

Time flies when you’re havin’ fun, or when you’re gettin’ old. Remember how long summers were when you were just so high?