Monthly Archives: April 2020

Headline: Coronavirus and the threat to US supremacy Sub-headline: Two questions serve as a reality check on excessive American declinism It has reached such a point that Mr. Rachman feels compelled to link to his January 3, 2011 essay at Foreign … Continue reading →

Niall Ferguson, in his Sunday Times essay of April 12 , 2020 , features John  Maynard Keynes as its main protagonist. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/dont-bet-on-a-quick-global-resurrection-z553527tx Keynes appears first an a negotiator of the Treaty of Versailles, who collapses from overwork or The Spanish … Continue reading →

Toro1963 Thank you for your comment. Why have I posted these  examples of the  Financial Times reportage on the the Argentine Question? Macri’s ‘Austerity Lite’ was a dismal failure, as have all other instances of this Neo-Liberal economic sadism! Although … Continue reading →

Should the regular reader of The Financial Times remind Mr. Mander and his employer of his September 1, 2019 essay, co-authored with Michael Stott ? Headline: Argentina: how IMF’s biggest ever bailout crumbled under Macri Sub-headline: With the Peronists waiting … Continue reading →

You might want to give that Helen Lewis Corbyn Anti-Semitism essay/defamation another ‘editorial look’! Headline: Labour antisemitism investigation will not be sent to equality commission Sub-headline: A report found factional hostility towards Jeremy Corbyn amongst former senior officials contributed to … Continue reading →

Dr Ian Wellens letter is just a bit too polite. It lacks something like a necessary combativeness ! I am an uncouth American. On the rise of Keir Starmer, a look at part of an American context, might offer insights … Continue reading →

“Bill Maher” When will this ‘Once Rebel’, now just the comic voice of a collapsed Neo-Liberalism, and its Con-Man-in-Chief Obama & the utterly loathsome Hillary, retire to the Comedy Old Folks Home? Like that other un-funny ‘Comic’ Jerry Seinfeld. It … Continue reading →

Headline: Inside Bill Ackman’s $2.6bn big short Sub-headline: Hedge fund chief bets on stockmarket recovery after profiting from coronavirus sell-off Dan McCrum and Ortenca Aliaj chronicle, in all its gripping economic melodrama, the triumph of the grey-haired genius boy Mr. … Continue reading →

Not even a mention of Pedro Sánchez’s essay in The Guardian of Sunday April 5, 2020 ? https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/apr/05/europes-future-is-at-stake-in-this-war-against-coronavirus The end of the E. U., and its single currency, in the Age of The Pandemic, is gaining momentum , or is … Continue reading →

Has this newspaper moved to The Left, with Covid-19 as its goad? Schumpeter’s ‘creative destruction’ ,that Mr. Thornhill makes the centerpiece of his intervention, in the face of the massive, and largely unsupervised bail-out of American Capital, passed by both … Continue reading →