Yesterday I nearly fell out of my chair as I saw this evil man speaking with great pomp and dignity from the floor of the Romanian parliament. This obese piece of shit, who can’t even control his own personal gluttony, had come to praise Romania for raising taxes and lowering salaries and warn against anyone doing anything but exactly what the IMF tells them to … Continue reading Raise High the Roofbeam
Well it’s been a tough year all around the planet, starting with a devastating series of earthquakes in Japan (which will never happen in Cernavoda) to the wholesale looting of Greece to deadly riots in England and the ongoing “Occupation” of every major American city. I had the “pleasure” last night of listening to the latest projections on food price increases on the radio and … Continue reading God Bless All The Universe
In the lingo spoken by those who work in the financial world, the “wizards” who are currently running the global economy, a yard is another way to say a “billion”. If you speak Romanian (or Russian or a dozen other languages), you know that the word for a billion sounds like “mill-yard” in English and so hence the word “yard”. If you’re from the Indian … Continue reading 7 Yards
Well folks, for the first time in seemingly forever, I actually have a little bit of free time. My ancient G5 is busy churning through some video files, the cats are fed, and I find myself with some breathing room on a shockingly cold October day here in Romania. A lot has been going on – in my personal life as well as all around … Continue reading A Handful of Dust
It is both misguided and dangerous to push unobserved risks further into the statistical tails of the probability distribution of outcomes! Indeed… Continue reading Misguided and Dangerous
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