Monthly Archives: February 2017

The unspoken declaration of Mr. Ganesh’s latest essay is: I’ve come to bury Labour/Corbyn not to praise them- I paraphrase. In the project of Neo-Liberal self-rescue, one of the most popular forms that that project takes is of misdirection. So … Continue reading →

Can the reader of his latest essay wonder, has Mr. Luce discovered the 99%? If so, it qualifies as a belated victory for the Scruffy Hippiedom of Occupy Wall Street! So much for my lapse into the hyperbolic. Mr. Luce … Continue reading →

My essay will look at Fillon as one of the main protagonists in this political farce, through the lens of The Financial Times reporters and editors. This French serio-comic melodrama as played out in the pages of this Neo-Liberal newspaper, … Continue reading →

Here is just a portion of what the reader needs to know about Mr. Bremmer. This week, I am in Berlin to join David Lipton, IMF first deputy managing director, and other key stakeholders in a conversation on the shifting … Continue reading →

  One marvels at this excerpt from Mr. Rachman’s latest essay, yet how should the reader interpret Mr. Foa and Mr. Mounk’s statement about the last three decades, in which trust in political institutions has precipitously declined? The thought that … Continue reading →

I will continue my comment on Paul Collier’s TLS Book review. I will quote from his essay and those quotations will be underlined and colored to indicate quotation, and my comments will be in bold italics. I try to address … Continue reading →

Sir Paul Collier ‘reviews’ ten books on Capitalism in the Times Literary Supplement of January 25 2017, under the title of ‘How to save capitalism from itself’: 1.Marc Levinson AN EXTRAORDINARY TIME The end of the postwar boom and the … Continue reading →

The ever evolving Greek Melodrama continues in the pages of The Financial Times.   Mr. Münchau’s essay is framed in a dire warning: ‘A failure to tell the truth imperils Greece and Europe’ and its sub-headline ‘If the IMF pulls … Continue reading →

In a polemical style reminiscent of Ayn Rand ranting about ‘Altruism’, as the poison that ales humanity, Mr. Covel mimics the literary style adapted from Robert Evans, in ‘The Kid Stays in the Picture’: full of bravado, but punctuated here … Continue reading →

Mr. Gallo, in his essay, advocates a ‘rethink’ for the E.U., led by The Germans, who defaulted four times in the 20th Century. Read Ms. Tett’s 2015 essay for the particulars: https://www.ft.com/content/927efd1e-9c32-11e4-b9f8-00144feabdc0 The stark choice for the German led E.U. … Continue reading →