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[Jan. 12th, 2009|12:06 am] |
Frank Rich writes in NYT:...another $50 billion rip-off. This time the vanished loot belonged to American taxpayers. That was our collective contribution to the $117 billion spent (as of mid-2008) on Iraq reconstruction — a sinkhole of corruption, cronyism, incompetence and outright theft that epitomized Bush management at home and abroad.
In 2001 we were scared into giving a blank check to the government for its war on terror. In 2008-09 we are being scared into giving a blank check to the government for the war on depression.
To tell you the truth, I am really afraid that the results of both these wars will be largely the same: government waste and corruption. |
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[Jan. 12th, 2009|07:39 pm] |
畠中にのさばり立る桜哉
hata naka ni nosabari tateru sakura kana
lording over
the farm field...
a cherry tree in bloom
translated by David Lanoue
надменно
над крестьянским полем...
сакура в цвету
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[Jan. 12th, 2009|08:29 pm] |
Вдогонку графикам: http://watertank.livejournal.com/1148110.html
Интересно получается. Самый серьезный кризис последнего времени разразился в условиях, когда, благодаря интернету и закону Мора (The Moore's Law), у всех есть, во-первых, доступ к практически любой экономической информации и, во-вторых, лучшие в мировой истории возможности брабaтывать эту информацию.
Похоже, что жизнь опровергает теорию эффективного рынка ( the efficient market hypothesis) |
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