[1144] The Truth About Markets London – 03 July 2010

10 Responses to [1144] The Truth About Markets London – 03 July 2010

1. Gordo | July 3, 2010 at 7:27 pm |

   Krugman Rules

2. Gordo | July 3, 2010 at 8:14 pm |

   The new UK government will learn quickly not to consult the public.

   The debt is nothing to worry about when the GOP is in power, that is the critical point. The democrats are currently self destructing by falling into the austerity trap.

3. flicks | July 3, 2010 at 8:31 pm |

   The spy thing is distraction bollocks the more beautiful the women the better.

   Being an artists is not recommended in the UK or anywhere really its only ‘name’ artists who get collected by the important collectors everyone else gets fucked over by pay for review events. Show your work to an important person in the art world – hand over the dosh and show them your shit and then get told to fuck off with your derivative art. The other day I got an email from a review organisation offering ‘credit’ for those who cant afford it just to push the humiliation thing out some more.

   http://www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net/

   Battery and LED light technology is set to take off Im sure China will be well in on it.

   Haven’t heard any more from Andrew Maguire the silver trader but no doubt the US regulators will do nothing,well they cant can they – brought up and controlled by the banks.

4. flicks | July 3, 2010 at 8:32 pm |

   BTW that was a good Truth about London I had an excuse to stop painting.

5. Fiatmentalist | July 3, 2010 at 9:01 pm |

   In the UK when some one says they are obsessed with sex and bodily functions they are called a pervert and thrown behind bars. In France they are called genius and given a camera and told to make movies!!

6. swell | July 3, 2010 at 10:27 pm |

   The London fog? No, they’re in sync with America. And in America the power elite club hails almost exclusively from the Ivy League. So we get a bit of Ivy League Ivory Tower rarified air insight from this lecture “The Current State of the Economy“, which took place on the day following the Goldman Sachs hearings and the day before the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout.

   Excerpt, @ 31:55 :

   “The basic principle is, you’ve had this tremendous area of activity spring up very rapidly, which was outside, out of the sight of most of the media, out of the sight of politicians, out of the supervision of non-bankers, and where basically, there simply wasn’t enough information flow, there wasn’t even a basic prospectus for most of this stuff. [...] So, in a nutshell, trying to create more standardization, trying to put them on public exchanges, would be one way to actually start building a genuine ‘free market’. And frankly it’s a mystery to me as to why more American politicians, who are supposed to be believers in the ‘free market’ system, aren’t standing up and shouting this from the rooftops right now.”

   “Because they’re all taking money from those companies. I don’t think that’s a mystery.”

   “Absolutely”.

7. 99 | July 4, 2010 at 1:36 am |

   Wow, Max. THANK YOU for mentioning the ecology like that. You just gave me a big boost by doing that. Maybe you don’t need to hear it or don’t have the time, but this Derrick Jensen lecture is a must for anyone unclear on the concept. It’s two hours, but it’s entertainingly delivered….

   XOXOX

8. Old English Spangles | July 4, 2010 at 8:30 am |

   I sometimes tire of your lazily reductive way of projecting the behaviour of a country’s ruling elite onto its people. In particular, I’ve noticed over several weeks that Stacy in particular never seems happier than when she’s Brit bashing.

   When Britain had an empire, the majority of it’s own people were living in such poverty that Gandhi was astonished when he visited the northern mill towns.

   The British ruling elite are not the British people – as the proposed infliction of 40% austerity cuts should demonstrate. Is it really fair to go characterising 60 million based on the actions of about 6000 – many of whom aren’t even British?

   Maybe you need to get Fred Harrison on one of your upcoming shows to remind you both that we’re not all monsters.

9. Player 1 million | July 4, 2010 at 11:43 am |

   Nice comment old english spangle max n stace are spot on with plenty but not with the villifying of the British(Inc scots welsh some Irish) or is it just English they dislike. On other occasions I have pointed out to other Anglophobe posters that our elite derive hugely from the French aristocracy since 1066 when the French invaded and introduced thier fuedelism which remains to this day something like 70-80% of britains ruling classes can trace their ancestory back to 1066 our problem is the English have never been allowed a revolution.

10. Ted K | July 5, 2010 at 4:04 am |

    Is that red head really that attractive??? Maybe if I was drunk and hadn’t had sex in like 6 months…. skank city

    Let’s get some espionage with some Chinese chicks. That could excite my little brother.