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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 →

Think of Stephens distopian view of the future,  as speculation in the political present, to unleash his penchant for fear mongering, garnished by comforting political kitsch. Think of that David Lynch’s classic Hollywood dreck ‘Blue Velvet’, as a bloated rhetorical … Continue reading →

Should it surprise any regular reader of The Financial Times, that it features two of the most prominent, not to speak of mendacious, defamers of Jeremy Corbyn, as somehow credible, on any given subject, after the public record of their … Continue reading →