Showing posts with label Rahm doctrine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rahm doctrine. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

How Financial Experts Bamboozle the Public

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Money pros had been taken to the woodshed according to the Global Association of Risk Professionals . (hat tip EPJ) [bold mine] American...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013

War on Savings: Australia Doubles Retirement Taxes

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Crisis or no crisis, Cyprus may have set a trend for governments to seek ways to tax private sector savings.  Australia has reportedly ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Quote of the Day: The Social Costs of Regulations

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Rahm’s Rule is a useful accessory to a body of theory that seeks to explain the political economy of regulation. The rule tells us that ma...
Friday, October 12, 2012

IMF’s Christine Lagarde Inflationist Delusions

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From the Deutsche Borse Group : (bold added) International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde praised monetary stimulus e...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Fatal Conceit: Philippine Authorities to Avert Asset Bubbles

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Philippine authorities suddenly become “cognizant” of internal bubbles. From the Bloomberg , The Philippines’s move to enhance oversi...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Singapore’s Gradualist Descent to the Welfare State

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This is sad news. Using demographic conditions, Singaporean politicians are considering to embrace more welfare policies. From Bloomberg ,...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

War on Short Selling: Price Controls Fail

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Prohibition in terms of market transactions or via short selling fails. From Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics Blog New resea...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Central Bankers Talk Doom, Markets Surge

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You’ve got to hand it central bankers for deftly using scare tactics to drive up the markets This from a Bloomberg article entitled Centra...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Power of Scapegoatism

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It is important to observe two points about projection: [1] the power of the state depends upon the scapegoat, whose presence is nece...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Germany Wants New EU Constitution: Lebensraum Merkel Version?

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Sometimes I ponder upon the possibility that today’s crisis has been engineered to impose ulterior goals. In the resonant words of former W...
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Friday, September 30, 2011

Will IMF’s bailout of Euro Reach $ 3.5 trillion?

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From the Daily Mail , Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF, said the current war chest of around £250billion ‘pales in c...
Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Euro Crisis: Path towards United States of Europe?

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Is the Emmanuel Rahm creed of using crisis as an opportunity to expand political power being tacitly enforced in the Eurozone? This from t...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

France-Germany Plot a Politically Centralized Eurozone with More Financial Repression

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The struggle to save the Euro has been giving windows of opportunities for Euro politicians to adapt the Emmanuel Rahm doctrine/creed—use th...