Tag Archives: Angela Merkel

the real deal is rather unspectacular

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Dave

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table, And we are introduced to Goodness every day. Even in drawing-rooms among a crowd of faults; he has a name like Billy and is … Continue reading →

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120 billion dollar bash

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Dave

End of the Euro? It does seem that three is a crowd. And with the Euro, The American dollar and China as a nimble but nonetheless elephant in the room, it may be the Euro will slowly be dismembered and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alen Ginsberg, Angela Merkel, European Growth Pact, European Stability Mechanism ESM, francois hollande, Franz Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Larry Rivers, Marcel Duchamp, mark blyth, Niall Ferguson, Simon Tilford, Tom Wassermann, watson institute | Leave a comment

dawn of an old day

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dave

The Golden Dawn. It conjures up some weird Kabbalah and esotericism of Aleister Crowley. Actually, it’s Greece’s rebranded Nazi party dressed in the regalia of post modernism. The breakaway white trash segment projecting identity politics and clearly jabbing at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Aleister Crowley, Angela Merkel, Angela Merkel Greece, boris artzybasheff, Gideon Levy, Golden Dawn Party Greece, james rickards, John Heartfield, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mark blyth brown university, Nikos Michaloliakos, Yair Ettinger | Leave a comment

austerity will set you free

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dave

A Pinata Party. Picking over the carcass. Reena Virk. A girl, fourteen, caught in a deep plunge of self-esteem. She just wanted to be part of the gang. The cool club. But she became a victim of adolescent ritual. Virk … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Angela Merkel, Gottfried Helnwein, Greek debt crisis, james rickards, mark blyth, mark blyth brown university, mimmo rubino, nicole itano, reena virk, reena virk murder, Thorstein Veblen, watson institute, watson institute brown university | Leave a comment

play it again zorba: the crocodile cure

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dave

Its a bit ambivalent. Michael Lewis applying the screws to the Greek population. Fatuous moral righteousness with the cruel guile that only Ugly American can muster.A targeted assassination of an un-people. Not that descriptively the proof is in the pudding. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Angela Merkel, Caravaggio, Diego Velasquez, European Central Bank, Greek debt crisis, Honoré Fragonard, johann Baptist Kirner, Larissa porsche owners, Michael Lewis The Big Short, michael lewis vanity fair, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Krugman, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Vallieres, porsche cayenne greece, Sarkozy, THe Eurozone debt crisis | Leave a comment

PINOCCHIO,PROFITS & PEE WEE: ''another NICE mess''

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Dave

At the G20 Summit in Toronto last week, the major accomplishment was the agreement on the ”Toronto Consensus”, which proclaimed in light of the Tsunami of fiscal stimulus hosed into a river of existing, and backlogged promises to spend, these … Continue reading →