I had a great time playing Mexican Train last night.
And that's not a euphemism racist.
Kevin Drum had a piece on this a little while ago, which I can't pretend to have read closely, having seen it just last night and said to myself, "Greece? Greece? What's that, now?"
Meanwhile, I may use this Mexican Train information, as we are currently being heavily snowed upon yet again, and I do have a set of dominoes.
A true Greek bailout can only occur where the EU nations express their filicity in a spiritual manner, and where the Greeks exercise appropriate restraint & virtue before acceptance. And nobody can have a beard.
Apparently Goldman was involved in rigging the Greek financial numbers while simultaneously playing investment games with their debt. Or as John Cole put it, it's time to replace SPECTRE in all those Bond movies with GS. Though to be fair to GS, a friend of mine who knows the industry very well argues that it's not so much that they're more crooked than anyone else, they're just better at rigging the game.
Does it at any time require the participants to oil themselves up? That's my main concern.
It's typical for the donor nation to insert a strigil provision.
Krugman is on the Euromess
Krugman is astonishing. Best blogger evah.
Germany:Greece::China:USA
As far as the equity markets, even stupider than teabaggers, the very stupidest stupid in the world belongs to amateurs who pay any attention to short term fluctuations in equity markets.
In line with 5, Goldman Sachs, IIRC, is responsble for more than 1/3 of daily equity trades. On the day that Greece was bailed out, that might have been half. And nobody really understands what G-S does, the simple churning for small advantage can always be used to disguise major plays.
As Joseph Stiglitz has pointed out, the ECB is happy to lend to banks, but not when it comes to member states. It's all stimulus where private finance-capital is concerned, but sour-faced austerity when public sector budgets are involved. But then, that is the point. The EU isn't attacking Greece, or neglecting Greece, as Stiglitz claims. Greek capital will do well out of this. It will benefit from suppressed wages, will probably make a tidy profit from sold public assets, and will enjoy the continued access to Balkan and Eastern European labour markets that membership of the EU brings. It's a not an attack on Greece. It's a class war...."Lenin"
Bob, this is a thread about things that sound vaguely like they indulge in ethnic stereotypes but in fact do not.
11:Sorry The OP isn't real clear.
Identity rather than class. Got it. I think.
I suck as a liberal.
So making a joke about Scottish people being cheap would be way out of line?
It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonize between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncracy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis should be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists.
Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic.
In our epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists.
Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically.
These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political barometer are halcyonic.
The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethical economies. The genesis of the programmed organisation will dynamize these policies. I sympathise, therefore, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them.
I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.
Belgian Waffle
Dutch Treat
Bologna Sandwich
Polish Knob
Norwegian Wood
"Greece? Greece? What's that, now?""
It's the word, is the word that you heard.
I can't be the only person who keeps confusing the Chicago School with the Chicago Way.
("Capone pulls a knife - you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital - you send one of his to the morgue.")
19. That doesn't clarify the distinction. Capone, Pinochet, it's just a matter of scale.
Is that the only film featuring a heroic (if stereotypically nerdy) accountant?
Friedman pulls a Laffer Curve, you pull a Gini co-efficient. He sends one of yours to the AEI, you send of his to the CBPP.
Is that the only film featuring a heroic (if stereotypically nerdy) accountant?
Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life.
23: not so - I think those are actuaries.
DePalma's Untouchables had a heroic accountant.
Shawshank Redemption! y'all should be ashamed
Schindler's List
25: yes, "The Untouchables" is the one I was thinking of. "Shawshank"'s Andy DuFresne's a bank president, I think, not an accountant. Good catch on Itzhak Stern - a heroic accountant doing heroic accounting.
But he's working as an accountant while in prison, so I think he counts.
27: good point. We will pass Andy DuFresne.
Ooh, look, a peer-reviewed paper!
"Accountant stereotypes in movies distributed in North America in the twentieth century", Dimnik & Felton, 2004.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VCK-4DTKK2R-1&_user=10&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2006&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1203134853&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=c83065ab878e4fc6b9852e16dc8e8266
And a free article by the authors:
http://business.queensu.ca/alumni_and_donors/docs/InquirySummer2007/Inq_S07_FeatureAccountantsInMovies.pdf
Which points out Gene Wilder and Matthew Broderick in "The Producers", Rick Moranis in "Ghostbusters", Joe Pesci in "Lethal Weapon", and Denis Lawson in "Local Hero". Though not sure how many of those are actually heroic...