Don’t mess with the big dogs
“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or a .400 baseball hitter, but now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.” —…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day August 20, 2008
Hipster: The dead end of western civilization, says Adbusters
The angst and anomie in this hipster howl of despair from Adbusters reaches almost epic proportions. We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to become it ourselves. We are a defeated generation,…
Cuba may cut social welfare benefits
Alfredo Jam, head of macro-economic analysis in the economy ministry, told the Financial Times that Cubans had been “overprotected” by a system that subsidised food costs and limited the amount people could earn, prompting labour shortages in important industries. “We…