Deity, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the fucking difference! Homo Sapiens - Wise man. The Victorians got it astoundingly wrong, we should be called Homo Bardus, aka Stupid Man or Homo Superbus -Arrogant Man, better yet; Homo Bardus Superbus - Stupidly ( Read more... )

The weaknesses in the Euro are starting to surface. From Martin Baccardax’s article, Eastern Europe is suffering severe contraction. The other problem is not having a coordinated stimulus and management plan. In the EU, the ECB calls the shots for the money supply and interest rates but the other half of the machine, a strong central treasury, is ( Read more... )

Sweden is only the latest country to come back to the nuclear fold.

Leaders of the coalition government say new reactors are needed to help combat climate change and secure the nation’s energy supply.

Yes two requirements that are on a head-on collision; energy requirements and reducing CO2 emissions.

Sweden was one of those countries that ( Read more... )

A CNBC report inspired me to do a quick Google , which lead me to this article. However, Silvia Wadhwa summed it up best in her article. Yes, that does look a bit disconnected but that’s the way my subconscious processor works. Huge amounts of disparate information flowing into a tentative conclusion. I spend at least 6 hours per day plugged into ( Read more... )

This is in spite of headline inflation in the Euro Zone. I am sure that mister Trichet would rather be raising rates but Europe has been taking huge hits from the US Credit Crunch. In addition, the recent Oil Price Bubble has also been hitting the economy.

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Supply Constraints is the phrase that the talking heads are beginning to use, to describe the current oil price crisis 1 . The important part to remember is that this does not refer to the current supply/demand ratio, which is still good with supply exceeding current demand. Instead, it refers to near-future supply constraints and capacity caps, ( Read more... )

Not that I really want to but I had an experience that really made me think about it, last Saturday.

Among many others, we have made friends with a German couple from Stuttgart. They are both working here in Switzerland. The husband, Michael, is from the German side of the Dutch-German border area where I was born. The wife, Anna, is born in Poland ( Read more... )

I passed the initial screening for this job and I get to go and see them in person on Thursday. It's in Schiphol-Rijk, about seven minutes from the airport.

Some of you asked what a triple-play Telco was. The link should give you a clue. Voice, Internet, and TV on the same copper pair. It's the same thing I did at Pacific Bell. Telcos have two ( Read more... )

is that it only takes a few radicals to make them look very bad. This writer's experience absolutely validates exactly the statements he has made.

Robert Redeker has been forced into hiding after making controversial remarks about the Prophet Muhammad ( Read more... )

Should we be worried? The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and EuroNext agreed to merge. This will create the first ever true International equity marketplace. The new company will be called NYSE Euronext and will have trading floors on both continents. Euronet shareholder will lose out, just slightly but it is roughly a par:par deal. In exchange ( Read more... )