It Takes Just One Village to Save a Species New York Times
John le Carré: Britons have been ’stripped’ of civil liberties Telegraph
Press Coddles Banks With Pulled Punches Gawker (hat tip Cash Mundy)
Lehman Brothers reveal £100m pensions hole Times Online
An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Regarding the Current Financial Crisis John Hussman
Bridge Loan to Nowhere Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson, The Nation
Fed makes it easier to take stakes in banks Associated Press
Zimbabweisation, USA Sam Jones, FT Alphaville (hat tip Cash Mundy). Before you get too excited, I suggest you check what happened to the Indonesian, Thai, and Russian stock markets in their financial crises.
What If? One Salient Oversight. Insight into the inflation versus deflation debate.
US Bonds: That AAA Rating Won’t Survive….. Dead Cats Bouncing
On Bank Holding Companies and Bailouts Roger Ehrenberg
Antidote du jour:
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I couldn’t resist.
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This is a visual metaphor directed towards back pain:
Re: At the lowest end of the spine, some patients may have tailbone pain (also called coccyx pain or coccydynia). Others may have pain from their sacroiliac joint at the bottom of the lumbar spine, called sacroiliac joint dysfunction (see sacroiliac joint for more information).
While some cats have found help from Medical cannabis for this condition, others simply lie in the sun and relax.
Then again, this may represent fat cats and the risk of systemic collapse?