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Kite (geometry)
Kite | |
A kite showing its sides equal in length and its inscribed circle.
Type | Quadrilateral |
Edges and vertices | 4 |
Symmetry group | D1 (*) |
Dual polygon | Isosceles trapezoid |
In Euclidean geometry, a kite is a quadrilateral whose four sides can be grouped into two pairs of equal-length sides that are adjacent to each other. In contrast, a parallelogram also has two pairs of equal-length sides, but they are opposite each other rather than adjacent. Kite quadrilaterals are named for the wind-blown, flying kites, which often have this shape and which are in turn named for a bird. Kites are also known as deltoids, but the word "deltoid" may also refer to a deltoid curve, an unrelated geometric object.
A kite, as defined above, may be either convex or concave, but the word "kite" is often restricted to the convex variety. A concave kite is sometimes called a "dart" or "arrowhead", and is a type of pseudotriangle.
Special cases[edit]
If all four sides of a kite have the same length (that is, if the kite is equilateral), it must be a rhombus.
If a kite is equiangular, meaning that all four of its angles are equal, then it must also be equilateral and thus a square. A kite with three equal 108° angles and one 36° angle forms the convex hull of the lute of Pythagoras.[1]
The kites that are also cyclic quadrilaterals (i.e. the kites that can be inscribed in a circle) are exactly the ones formed from two congruent right triangles. That is, for these kites the two equal angles on opposite sides of the symmetry axis are each 90 degrees.[2] These shapes are called right kites[3] and they are in fact bicentric quadrilaterals (below to the left). Among all the bicentric quadrilaterals with a given two circle radii, the one with maximum area is a right kite.[4]
There are only eight polygons that can tile the plane in such a way that reflecting any tile across any one of its edges produces another tile; one of them is a right kite, with 60°, 90°, and 120° angles. The tiling that it produces by its reflections is the deltoidal trihexagonal tiling.[5]
A right kite |
An equidiagonal kite inscribed in a Reuleaux triangle |
Among all quadrilaterals, the shape that has the greatest ratio of its perimeter to its diameter is an equidiagonal kite with angles π/3, 5π/12, 5π/6, 5π/12. Its four vertices lie at the three corners and one of the side midpoints of the Reuleaux triangle (above to the right).[6]
In non-Euclidean geometry, a Lambert quadrilateral is a right kite with three right angles.[7]
A quadrilateral is a kite if and only if any one of the following conditions is true:
- Two disjoint pairs of adjacent sides are equal (by definition).
- One diagonal is the perpendicular bisector of the other diagonal.[8] (In the concave case it is the extension of one of the diagonals.)
- One diagonal is a line of symmetry (it divides the quadrilateral into two congruent triangles that are mirror images of each other).[9]
- One diagonal bisects a pair of opposite angles.[9]
The kites are the quadrilaterals that have an axis of symmetry along one of their diagonals.[10] Any non-self-crossing quadrilateral that has an axis of symmetry must be either a kite (if the axis of symmetry is a diagonal) or an isosceles trapezoid (if the axis of symmetry passes through the midpoints of two sides); these include as special cases the rhombus and the rectangle respectively, which have two axes of symmetry each, and the square which is both a kite and an isosceles trapezoid and has four axes of symmetry.[10] If crossings are allowed, the list of quadrilaterals with axes of symmetry must be expanded to also include the antiparallelograms.
Basic properties[edit]
Every kite is orthodiagonal, meaning that its two diagonals are at right angles to each other. Moreover, one of the two diagonals (the symmetry axis) is the perpendicular bisector of the other, and is also the angle bisector of the two angles it meets.[10]
One of the two diagonals of a convex kite divides it into two isosceles triangles; the other (the axis of symmetry) divides the kite into two congruent triangles.[10] The two interior angles of a kite that are on opposite sides of the symmetry axis are equal.
As is true more generally for any orthodiagonal quadrilateral, the area A of a kite may be calculated as half the product of the lengths of the diagonals p and q:
Alternatively, if a and b are the lengths of two unequal sides, and θ is the angle between unequal sides, then the area is
Tangent circles[edit]
Every convex kite has an inscribed circle; that is, there exists a circle that is tangent to all four sides. Therefore, every convex kite is a tangential quadrilateral. Additionally, if a convex kite is not a rhombus, there is another circle, outside the kite, tangent to the lines that pass through its four sides; therefore, every convex kite that is not a rhombus is an ex-tangential quadrilateral.
For every concave kite there exist two circles tangent to all four (possibly extended) sides: one is interior to the kite and touches the two sides opposite from the concave angle, while the other circle is exterior to the kite and touches the kite on the two edges incident to the concave angle.[11]
Dual properties[edit]
Kites and isosceles trapezoids are dual: the polar figure of a kite is an isosceles trapezoid, and vice versa.[12] The side-angle duality of kites and isosceles trapezoids are compared in the table below.[9]
Isosceles trapezoid | Kite |
Two pairs of equal adjacent angles | Two pairs of equal adjacent sides |
One pair of equal opposite sides | One pair of equal opposite angles |
An axis of symmetry through one pair of opposite sides | An axis of symmetry through one pair of opposite angles |
Circumscribed circle | Inscribed circle |
Tilings and polyhedra[edit]
All kites tile the plane by repeated inversion around the midpoints of their edges, as do more generally all quadrilaterals. A kite with angles π/3, π/2, 2π/3, π/2 can also tile the plane by repeated reflection across its edges; the resulting tessellation, the deltoidal trihexagonal tiling, superposes a tessellation of the plane by regular hexagons and isosceles triangles.[13]
The deltoidal icositetrahedron, deltoidal hexecontahedron, and trapezohedron are polyhedra with congruent kite-shaped facets. There are an infinite number of uniform tilings of the hyperbolic plane by kites, the simplest of which is the deltoidal triheptagonal tiling.
Kites and darts in which the two isosceles triangles forming the kite have apex angles of 2π/5 and 4π/5 represent one of two sets of essential tiles in the Penrose tiling, an aperiodic tiling of the plane discovered by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose.
Face-transivive self-tesselation of the sphere, Euclidean plane, and hyperbolic plane with kites occurs as uniform duals: for Coxeter group [p,q], with any set of p,q between 3 and infinity, as this table partially shows up to q=6. When p=q, the kites become rhombi.
Polyhedra | Euclidean | Hyperbolic tilings | |||||
Polyhedra | Euclidean | Hyperbolic tilings | |||||
Polyhedra | Hyperbolic tilings | ||||||
Euclidean | Hyperbolic tilings | ||||||
Conditions for when a tangential quadrilateral is a kite[edit]
A tangential quadrilateral is a kite if and only if any one of the following conditions is true:[14]
- The area is one half the product of the diagonals.
- The diagonals are perpendicular. (Thus the kites are exactly the quadrilaterals that are both tangential and orthodiagonal.)
- The two line segments connecting opposite points of tangency have equal length.
- One pair of opposite tangent lengths have equal length.
- The bimedians have equal length.
- The products of opposite sides are equal.
- The center of the incircle lies on a line of symmetry that is also a diagonal.
If the diagonals in a tangential quadrilateral ABCD intersect at P, and the incircles in triangles ABP, BCP, CDP, DAP have radii r1, r2, r3, and r4 respectively, then the quadrilateral is a kite if and only if[14]
If the excircles to the same four triangles opposite the vertex P have radii R1, R2, R3, and R4 respectively, then the quadrilateral is a kite if and only if[14]
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- ^ Kirby, Matthew; Umble, Ronald (2011), "Edge tessellations and stamp folding puzzles", Mathematics Magazine 84 (4): 283–289, arXiv:0908.3257, doi:10.4169/math.mag.84.4.283, MR 2843659.
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- ^ Eves, Howard Whitley (1995), College Geometry, Jones & Bartlett Learning, p. 245, ISBN 9780867204759.
- ^ Zalman Usiskin and Jennifer Griffin, "The Classification of Quadrilaterals. A Study of Definition", Information Age Publishing, 2008, pp. 49-52.
- ^ a b c Michael de Villiers, Some Adventures in Euclidean Geometry, ISBN 978-0-557-10295-2, 2009, pp. 16, 55.
- ^ a b c d Halsted, George Bruce (1896), "Chapter XIV. Symmetrical Quadrilaterals", Elementary Synthetic Geometry, J. Wiley & sons, pp. 49–53.
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External links[edit]
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- Weisstein, Eric W., "Kite", MathWorld.
- Kite definition and area formulae with interactive animations at Mathopenref.com


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Golden Temple attack: UK advised India but impact 'limited'
British military advice was given to India ahead of the 1984 deadly attack on a Sikh temple but it had only "limited impact", MPs have been told.
Foreign Secretary William Hague was delivering the findings of a review into claims an SAS officer helped Delhi plan the raid which killed hundreds.
The storming of the Golden Temple in the city of Amritsar was intended to flush out Sikh separatists.
Mr Hague said UK assistance was "purely advisory" and given months beforehand.
The inquiry was launched last month after declassified documents were said to suggest Margaret Thatcher's government was involved in planning the raid, called Operation Blue Star.
Official figures put the death toll at 575, but Mr Hague said other reports suggested "as many as 3,000 people were killed including pilgrims caught in the crossfire".
"This loss of life was an utter tragedy," he said.
"Understandably members of the Sikh community around the world still feel the pain and suffering caused by these events."
The military commander who led Operation Blue Star, Lt Gen Kuldeep Singh Brar, has told the BBC that he had no knowledge of any advice from Britain to India.
In 2007 a former Indian intelligence officer, B Raman, claimed agents from the UK's MI5 had visited the Golden Temple four months before the raid. The UK government review appears to corroborate the claim that a British adviser was sent.
But it also appears that the British advice was limited to a few people and certainly not shared with military commanders.
In India, Operation Blue Star has always been seen as a military disaster, which led to the loss of hundreds of lives - including those of civilians - and to the eventual assassination of the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
The latest revelations will only lead to more questions about the assault on the Golden Temple, why it was a disaster and if, in fact, it could have been averted.
Delivering his statement, Mr Hague set out the UK's involvement in planning for the raid.
He told the Commons that the British government had received an urgent request for help from Indian authorities who wanted to regain control of the temple from Sikh militants.
In response, an unnamed British military adviser was sent to India in February 1984, and he recommended any attack should be a last resort, MPs heard.
The adviser suggested using an element of surprise, as well as helicopters, to try to keep casualty numbers low - features which were not part of the final operation, Mr Hague said.
No equipment or training were offered, Mr Hague said, and the Indian plan "changed significantly" in the following three months, to cope with a considerably larger dissident force and extensive fortifications within the temple complex.
The investigation, carried out by Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, involved searching 200 files and 23,000 documents.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "I hope the manner in which we have investigated these dreadful events will provide some reassurance to the Sikh community, here in Britain and elsewhere."
He added: "A single UK military officer provided some advice. But critically, this advice was not followed, and it was a one-off."
Retired Lt Gen Kuldeep Singh Brar, who led Operation Blue Star, maintains he had no advice or support from Britain.
"If some things went around months earlier or weeks earlier with other agencies, intelligence agencies, I am not aware of them," he told the BBC.
"From the time I was given command of Operation Blue Star until I planned it and executed it, let me emphatically tell you that there was no involvement whatsoever as far as the British are concerned."
Paul Uppal, the UK's only Sikh MP, said many Sikhs would be "relieved that it was just purely advice that was given".
He praised the speed and thoroughness of the review and said it could be an "important step" towards "some closure" for Sikhs.
But Lord Indarjit Singh, director of the Network of Sikh Organisations, called Mr Hague's statement "smug and condescending".
On the claim that UK advice had a "limited impact" of the Golden Temple attack, Lord Singh said: "It is like saying that I had only a minimal involvement in a massacre or a holocaust."
He said the language in the documents was "insulting" to Sikhs - suggesting they were all extremists - and the UK's real motivation in assisting India was keeping its arms contracts.
But Mr Hague said the review had found "no evidence" UK military advice in February 1984 had been "linked to defence sales or any other policy issue".
Jasvir Singh, director of the City Sikhs Network, which represents Sikh professionals in the UK, said the information disclosed in the review "harks back" to colonial times.
"I think there are lots of people in the Sikh community who are upset that the British could be involved in this, even to a limited extent," he said.
Mr Singh said many details about British involvement in the 1984 attack were still unclear, and called for "transparency" from the authorities.
UK Sikh groups have said the government review should have looked not only at June 1984 but also the events that followed, and Mr Singh also criticised this "narrow scope".
Storming of the Golden Temple
- 1982: Armed Sikh militants, led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, take up residence in the Golden Temple complex
- 3-8 June 1984: The Indian army attacks the Golden Temple, killing Bhindranwale, his supporters and a number of civilians
- 31 October 1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who had given the go-ahead to Operation Blue Star, was assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards
- November 1984: More than 3,000 are killed in anti-Sikh riots across India
The Indian government said the UK had kept it "informed on this matter".
"We have noted the report and the statement made," an Indian foreign ministry spokesman said.
Indira Gandhi assassinatedDavid Cameron ordered the review last month after Labour MP Tom Watson said he had seen papers from Margaret Thatcher "authorising Special Air Services (SAS) to work with the Indian government".
Mr Watson cited two letters released under the 30-year rule. He said a 1984 letter from the prime minister's office stated that a British adviser had "visited India and drawn up a plan" which had been approved by the Indian government.
Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said "serious questions" remained about British involvement, and called for all relevant documents to be released.
The Sikh separatists at the Golden Temple in 1984 had been demanding an independent homeland - called Khalistan - in Punjab.
In October 1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in what was thought to be a revenge attack for what happened at the Golden Temple.
A month later, more than 3,000 people were killed in anti-Sikh riots across India.


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It was our 5th visit in 3 years all ready booked for February 2015
We thoroughly enjoyed our time at Forest of Dean and would highly recommend it to others, we would certainly return but hope that it doesn't get much bigger as the peaceful surroundings are the biggest asset along with the wonderful accommodation. The only thing we would change is more storage for clothes and more towel rails for wet towels. Otherwise highly comfortable and clean cabin.
Lovely setting and, surprisingly (for a forest setting), no mosquitos!
Just loved it
Advertised with adventure playground and laundrette but they were not even built! Lodge pk, very dark though and the tv lost some channels due to the building disruption.


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Apparently unaware that Doge jumped the shark 18,000 memes ago, the GOP today used a doge meme to criticize Hillary Clinton. Read More
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Sometime around July 21, Mitt Romney's Twitter account saw a bizarre spike in follower numbers, to the tune of 150,000 or so new accounts in about 48 hours. The presidential candidate's opponents might be quick to blame Mr. Romney or his campaign, but Mr. Romney's digital director already told Buzzfeed the campaign had nothing to do with it. Either way, someone clearly fluffed the former Massachusetts governor's follower count with fakes and The Atlantic crunched the numbers to prove it. The post by Alexander Furnas and Devin Gaffney is densely detailed: Read More


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Magnificent Obsession
Born to great privilege, late American heiress Bunny Mellon nonetheless worked tirelessly to create breathtaking gardens and interiors of soulful simplicity, as photographs from Mellon's own archives show
A Model of Modernist Principles Comes to Life
Eight decades on, the first house that Charlotte Perriand ever designed has finally been built, thanks to Louis Vuitton
AD Revisits: Pauline de Rothschild
The 1970s flat of the legendary tastemaker
The Architect's Eye: Something So Wright
Lee F. Mindel pays homage to Frank Lloyd Wright, the Prairie School, and Chicago
Anatomy of a Room
Inside Lee Radziwill's legendary London home, fashioned by Renzo Mongiardino
In Memoriam: David Collins
A look back at the Dublin-born architect's award-winning restaurant, bar, and fashion boutique design
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Remembering the AD100 designer renowned for his opulent, grand-scale interiors
A True Gent
Remembering the fascinating life and brilliant work of interior decorator Anthony P. Browne
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Remembering the cofounder of Shelton, Mindel & Associates, an influential architecture and design firm that has redefined modernist style
Curtain Call
American fashion designer turned baroness Pauline de Rothschild imagined whimsical window treatments with an unlikely inspiration.
Marrakech Master
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A Scholar & A Gentleman
Albert Hadley didn't merely design intriguing and livable rooms—the Parish-Hadley partner also taught America what style was all about
All About Eames
A new book and exhibition by JF Chen survey the modern designs of Charles and Ray Eames
Romantic Bedrooms
Mario Buatta conceives dazzling, luxurious bedrooms. Here, he talks to AD about his approach to the most important room in the house, and we present a collection of his extraordinary creations
Shall We Dance?
Aileen Mehle, the glamorous society columnist known as Suzy, opens the door to her New York City apartment—a former ballroom revamped by her longtime friend and favorite decorator, Mario Buatta
Master Class
Architect Charles Gwathmey designed one of his final projects for a spectacular site on St. Barts: a villagelike compound of pristine white pavilions with breathtaking views
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1 Now David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions that served the king, and the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the overseers of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, with the officials and the mighty men, even all the valiant men. | 1 David summoned all the officials of Israel to assemble at Jerusalem: the officers over the tribes, the commanders of the divisions in the service of the king, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the mighty men and all the brave warriors. |
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Sunday, September 23, 2012 - 6:30pm
LAS CRUCES, NM — A woman was released from the hospital Sunday after she was hit by a bullet at the NMSU football game.
NMSU police believe someone outside the stadium shot a handgun during Saturday night's game.
A woman who was sitting inside the stadium was hit in the leg.
She was airlifted to University Medical Center in El Paso.
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Busch brothers take top spots in qualifying
The Busch brothers will start on the front row for the second time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series after younger brother Kyle set a Texas...
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Busch brothers take
top spots in qualifying
The Busch brothers will start on the front row for the second time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series after younger brother Kyle set a Texas qualifying record with a lap of 196.299 mph Friday night in Fort Worth. That knocked Kurt off the pole, but not off the front row for Saturday night's race.
"Not too shabby of a day. ... I feel like we have a good piece for the race," Kyle Busch said.
It took that record qualifying lap by Kyle to knock Kurt Busch off the pole after his lap of 195.688 mph in his Chevrolet.
Greg Biffle, who won at Texas last April, qualified 35th in his Ford after a lap of 190.921 mph. Enumclaw's Kasey Kahne qualified 14th.
Kyle Busch wins again
in Nationwide event
Kyle Busch raced to his third consecutive NASCAR Nationwide victory this season and his sixth overall at Texas, leading 91 of 200 laps in Fort Worth.
Busch is the first six-time winner in any series at the 1 ½-mile, high-banked Texas Motor Speedway.
While driving a car he owned last season, Busch didn't win in the Nationwide Series. He is back in a Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota this year. After finishing 22nd in the season opener at Daytona, he has four wins to push his series victory record to 55.
Busch finished 2.27 seconds ahead of Brad Keselowski. Kahne finished eighth.
Tebow says he has a
'great attitude'
New York Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow plans to report for offseason workouts Monday with a "great attitude."
Speaking at his annual charity event in his hometown of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Tebow offered little insight into his feelings about the Jets signing quarterback David Garrard or about the rampant speculation that his time in New York might be ending after one disappointing and unproductive season.
"It's nothing I can control, and like I've said ever since I was at Nease High School, I really try not to worry about what I can't control," Tebow said.
In free-agent signings around the league, Cincinnati got offensive guard Mike Pollak; Kansas City got linebacker Zac Diles, and Baltimore signed linebacker Rolando McClain.
Senators deal Devils
their 9th straight loss
After two straight wins, the Ottawa Senators are feeling a little better about their playoff chances. The New Jersey Devils, on the other hand, couldn't feel any worse after absorbing their ninth straight loss.
The visiting Senators, in sixth place in the Eastern Conference, extended the Devils' losing streak to within one of the franchise record with a 2-0 win.
Elsewhere, Chicago tied the score late in regulation, then clinched the Central Division title with a 3-2 shootout victory over Detroit.
Isner reaches
Clay Court semis
Fifth-seeded John Isner had 19 aces, the fastest at 146 mph, to overpower Lithuania's Ricardas Berankis 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship quarterfinals in Houston.
The 6-foot-9 American will face third-seeded defending champion Juan Monaco of Argentina, a 6-1, 6-0 winner over qualifier Robby Ginepri, in the semifinals.
In the other quarterfinals, top-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain and American wild-card Rhyne Williams advanced.
• Showing again he's getting better with age, 6-year-old Wise Dan took control at the top of the stretch Friday to win the $300,000 Maker's 46 Mile at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.
With Jose Lezcano aboard, the 2012 Horse of the Year and the race favorite, ran a mile on the turf in 1 minute, 36.37 seconds. Wise Dan paid $2.80 to win in his fourth straight Grade I win.
• Barcelona will play Bayern Munich in the Champions League semifinals and Real Madrid will face Borussia Dortmund as Friday's draw kept the Spanish and German teams apart.
• Major League Soccer moved the Montreal Impact's game against the visiting Columbus Crew from Saturday to Sunday because of the possibility of snow and rain.
• The NCAA's enforcement staff has agreed to strike at least some of former Miami quarterback Kyle Wright's testimony from its case against the Hurricanes, a person with knowledge of the move told The Associated Press.
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Stop Subway from banning Meat and Pork and NOT only having Halal Meat
Recently in Scotland Subway has made a decision to ban all meat and pork from their business and only have Halal meat. We feel that these changes are unfair on people in society who are meat eaters and who do not agree with the way that halal meat is done. The way halal meat is done is they hang the animal upside down alive and then they slit its throat wide open and let the blood run out while the animal suffers.
Adrian Wutzke
I believe that allowing Halal Meats as an option is appropriate. I do not agree with banning pork. Many options are needed.
If we went abroad we would be expected to adapt to their culture so why should we change ours.
Paul mckenna
This is rediculace and shouldn't be allowed I think the way that the animal is treated in its final hours should be quick and as painless as possible therefor I do not agree the halal way of doing this is acceptable
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Errata: On December 12, 2014, the ERS farm income estimates for 2008-2013 and the 2014 forecast, released on November 26, were revised to correct coding and data input sourcing problems in the underlying farm income database. Revisions also incorporate new data that became available following the November 26 release. While changes to individual State level estimates may be larger, at the U.S. level, these corrections and data revisions increased 2013 net farm income by 2 percent, to $129 billion. Also affected were the value of year-end inventories and related measures in the balance sheet, as well as production expenses, total value of production, gross and net value added, the value of inventory change, and their respective crop components in the income statement. Net farm income forecast for 2014 increased 0.4 percent, to $97.3 billion.
These are the latest data concerning USDA's forecasts and estimates of farm income, including net value added, net cash income, cash receipts, government payments, farm production expenses, and the balance sheet.
Forecasts are normally updated three times a year. The February release provides the first forecast for the current year and a revision of the prior year's forecast. The August release converts the prior year's farm income and balance sheet forecasts to estimates and adds State-level farm income estimates, revises previous years' estimates, and updates the current year's forecast. The November release updates the current year's forecast.
Note that State and U.S. revisions for 2012 and final estimates for 2013 were made in December 2014 instead of in August, due to the change in timing of specific National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) data releases, the 2012 Census of Agriculture, and data coding and input sourcing problems identified in late November.
Data are as of December 12, 2014. The next forecast release will be February 10, 2015.
Note: Estimates are subject to revision one year after their preliminary release. Revisions are made only when additional information becomes available that changes the summarization of survey results. Because USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates are a primary source of information to the accounts, revision in their estimates will be incorporated in our estimates when our preliminary estimates are finalized. Examples include revisions in official estimates of commodity production that are a result of a Census or other credible new information. Estimates may also be revised when administrative data are changed.
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On A Public Note:
It has been brought to our attention that some contemporary Taino groups
are publicly promoting their own private agendas as Confederations, Nations,
Grand Councils, who claim to speak as the ultimate authority for all the Taino
People of the circum Caribbean and United States diaspora.
In our tribal nation Government's view, these groups do not have any authority
to speak for the legitimately established Taino tribal groups and Yucayeques
(Taino Villages) without their consent and permission.
They are not officially recognized as legitimate tribe Governments nor are they
recognized by any State or Federal Agencies as tribal entities.
These groups do not have any official standing within the legal framework of
the legitimately established Native American Tribal Governments of the Americas.
We want the general public and the world Governments to be aware of these facts
and that our sovereign Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Nation and its tribal Government
has publicly stated in the past that we as a sovereign tribal people wish to
completely distance ourselves from any of these misguided contemporary groups.
It is to be further made clear that these contemporary groups are not recognize
by our tribal Government nor do they have the authority to represent our
Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Nation Government at any Local, State, Federal level nor
at the U.N. United Nations as an NGO (Non-Governmental organization) representing
our tribal Government at any capacity.
The long stemmed North American Lakota Canupa Pipe, viewed in the above picture, is not a traditional Taino pipe. This Sacred Pipe was used in a respectful way to honor the Creator and our Northern American relatives. They had thus requested, that we share this Sacred Pipe in our Taino peace circle at our Taino Ceremony. On another note: We do use and have our own traditional pre-colombian Taino Pipes
A Taino Tribal Affairs Public Notice
Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Nation's Proclamation of September 13, 1998
Our Tribal Constitution, Tribal Laws, and Sovereign Government
"The Tribal Elders of the Jatibonicu Caney (Longhouse) and its Council of Nitaynos
(Chiefs) of the Jatibonicu' Taino Tribal Nation of Boriken and its
Taino Tribal Bands of Florida and New Jersey are recognized as a sovereign
Tribal Nation. We are Governed under our own Sovereign Constitution and
Tribal Laws.
Our Taino Tribal Council of Nitaynos are not in anyway self-appointed,
they are democratically recognized via our November 18th 1970 Jatibonicu'
Taino Tribal Nation's Constitution and Tribal Laws.
Our Jatibonicu Tribe of Boriken (Puerto Rico) And Its Tekesta Florida and Jatibonicu New
Jersey Taino Tribal Bands do not recognize the authority of any foreign governing
body nor is it controlled by any entity in Puerto Rico or in the United States of North America.
We do not nor have we ever publicly pro-claimed to represent all the Taino People. We
only represent the enrolled or registered members of our Jatibonicu' Taino
tribe of Boriken (Puerto Rico) and Its other Taino Tribal Bands that are organized
and located within their present day United States territories."
(C) Copyrights: Jatibonicu Tribal Nation's Proclamation Amended October 12, 1999:
"We will do everything within our power to preserve and protect the
integrity of our Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Government and its sovereign
tribal Constitution and Laws against all enemies foreign and domestic"
Tribal Elder and Principal Chief Pedro Guanikeyu Torres, 1970
Jatibonicu Tribal Motto: "Like A Mountain We Stand Alone"
"30 Years As A Reaffirmed and Legitimately Reorganized Taino Tribal Government"
A Case of Political Diplomatic Overture
May 1st 2010: Public Warning As To The Spreading of Open Lies And False Stories
May 19th 2010: Our Official Recognition of Legitamit Taino Tribal Council Entities
Taino Census 2000 Registration And Affidavit
Taino Tribal Leader Meets With Heads of US Census
United States Region Tribal Council office Number
(856) 690-1565
United States Region Tribal Council office FAX
(856) 690-1312
Our Tribal Webmaster Mr. Juan Antonio Perez
Copyright (C) 1997-2001 FHDJ Inc.
Taino Tribe of Jatibonicu
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my bro works at RBS in HK. And they are going to cut 10000 employees. I told him he shouldn't have chosen to work in a British bank in the first place. It's clearly falling down. Britain and most of Europe. And what the politicians do is making this process faster.
We've just had a huge crisis bought up by unregulated financial markets and instrument.. can we sure that a finance-based grow is sustainable in the long term? I think that, while the silicon valley provides true developement, based on technology and "material" products, the City is mainly boosting short-term gains: England should not forget the importance of manufacturing and other industrial sectors.
"Strangely, California doesn't talk down Silicon Valley."
That is because Silicon Valley produces tangible, useful things (in addition to less useful things such as Facebook). Financiers produce nothing and enrich themselves by skimming from other people's transactions.
They also provide financing to businesses and stuff...
Yes, they were bailed out so that they would continue providing financing to businesses and individuals. They found enough money to pay themselves bonuses out of public money, probably for squandering so well all that capital, but they are still not providing credits. They should have been allowed to go under, in a controlled fashion. But they are too big to fail. And they are fighting back, desperately, to stay too big to fail. And moaning about the excessive taxation, of course: how dare we, mere mortals, demand some sort of compensation from people who (think that they can) defy gravity, with impunity.
What about the banks that were never bailed out? What about Glencore and Jefferies? Do you hate them with such an irrational passion too?
If not then you may want to state that your beef is with the banks that received bailouts, and not with all financiers. You would not be employed if a bank didn't provide financing for your company.
I am not a financier (nor do I know any) and in fact I know very little about finance. But it is patently untrue that financiers produce nothing. Without financial markets, you would have a lot of dead capital, since there would be no way to connect those with capital to those that need capital. That would very quickly impoverish the world.
The world needs to come up with ways to limit the kind of behaviour that led to financial crash. But we should be careful to ensure that these measures come from a desire to ensure efficient and honest operation of the financial markets rather than as a way to punish overpaid financiers.
Thanks for such a colourful interpretation - but there is no irrational hate of banks, bailed-out or not, or of the financial sector. However, there is a healthy dose of distrust for casino banking and, frankly, dislike for incompetent people, grossly overpaid for unproductive activities. And still overpaid after losing my money, whether as a customer, shareholder or taxpayer. And no, the company in which I used to work has NEVER borrowed money from the banks and it's done very well for itself and me - we just used our own capital, we had enough to cover our needs. Banks are very useful when they perform a function, such as looking after customers' money and paying the bills as ordered. Banks are also useful when they provide mortgages to private people and loans to businesses as needed, after thorough checking of credentials and taking into account risks and likelihood of default. When I needed a mortgage a number of years ago, the process took several days and included a thorough vetting of my finances. I was also required to provide 20% of the financing and I wasn't allowed to borrow more than I could repay with 30% of my gross income - no ifs no buts. That worked just fine for me and the bank.
It's when banks decided that retail banking was boring and that customers weren't worth their time that things started going wrong - the rest is history. For a number of years my first rate bank (one of the biggest on a global scale) forgot that I (and millions of others) were valued customers, as they were busy trying to sell us abstruse products. It's only when they were hammered, time and again by subprime mortgages, hedge funds and, recently, by a rogue trader, they started sucking up to retail customers again - they are all over us. Conclusion: I have nothing against banks or traders making reasonable money - as long as they provide a useful service to businesses and the society which feeds them.
You've build this city in a swamp of greed and mother nature claims its rights.
Seems like the Economist is take a one sided view on this...
Maybe you should consider that London has know become a city-state like HK and Singapore because of the finance liberalization since Thatcher...If you look at figures and statistics in real terms the only city in the UK that had a net contribution to the UK was Aberdeen in the last 20 years and even that is flawed as the oil & gas fields are not located in the city.
London is and will always be a centre of commerce not matter what. It is ideally situated in regulation, policy and geographic terms for financial companies and other companies to operate due to the open-mindness of governments on both sides of the bench. Look at STR Global, a Tenessee Hospitality Bench marking based company but withits Global HQ...nothing to do with banking. These are the companies that make London the centre of global transactions not the Barclays, not the HSBC (soon to move) nor the bankrupt hypocritics of RBS (HQ in Edinburgh but operational in London), Lloyds and HBOS.
The City's got Cancer.
The analogy is perfect.
It started off with a few perfectly well-functioning cells which suddenly suddenly mutated and became greedy, selfish and fast-replicating.
So in the end, the City needs saving from 'itself' i.e. the mutant cells which are destroying its organism.
very well written....a pleasure to read.
Today is the day when we should go back in history and understand why financial market comes in place. It was to help manufacturing industries which can help build economy and provide prosper life to human being. But today we went on a track where financial industry become most dominant one, not the other one. This is the time we should seriously think is this we want. Does we want our economy to prosper on trades written on papers, not on industries in real. Normal person need job, home and food, but what we are getting is loans, credits and these are running out economy.
One of the largest concerns that is frequently overlooked in the hoopla isn't so much what the regulation is as to whether it is fully enforced. Every financial system we're discussing here (yes including the supposedly ultra capitalist USA and UK systems) had and has very good regulatory laws. Show me one senior member of the SEC regulatory bodies, US federal attorney general's office on fraud, or Parlimentary regulatory body that lost their job over this utter debacle and failure in law enforcement. One. Just one. The truth is the far sadder. The SEC has been shown to have been warned time and again by 'whistle blowers' (don't get me started about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the lack of action much less Bernie Madoff's little swindle) yet failed to act. This ladies and gentlemen is where our anger really should lie. Do we really expect the 'sharks in suits' to regulate themselves? Really? I feel I have a strong sense of morals and ethics and I wouldn't even trust myself to not 'cheat' when my livelihood depended upon my outsmarting the 'other guy' at another bank in another country. Instead... flip that coin. Bounty hunters in the sense of an SEC regulatory official whose job it is to catch fraud, etc. gets a cut of the 'bounty' far in excess of what could be given as a bribe. Problem solved. Of course that is just my two cents on the matter.
Sure, as long as you let capitalism work its magic, stop bailing out the banks that fail, let interest rates be determined by markets and stop printing and manipulating money
Sorry City-guys! Time to find a real job.
Yep you're right.
All the financiers should abandon the City and find a plot of land somewhere to farm. It's only honourable.
I'm not a banker and I do not like the industry or its values, but the article is quite correct. Banking crises are as old as banking. Governments need to be ready to moderate such crises through prudential regulation of banks, and deal with the effects through deplying a budgetary suplus built up in good times. Britain wasn't able to do this because the government was hosing the money over the public sector. Bank shareholders paid the price for badly-run businesses, and many bank bosses left with the reputations in shreds. Time now to stop the incoherent "Occupy" rage and just regulate them like grown-ups.
It would be nice if it was true. Unfortunately, only in part. It's true that, if London lets go of the bankers, others will grab them. But the author doesn't address the purpose of the financial sector, which was created, originally, to funnel capital to production of goods, when Britain was an industrial power. When the financial markets became divorced from reality and triggered a vicious maelstrom of virtual money feeding on itself, that's when the trouble started. In theory, we were only looking at virtual money spinning around and growing ceaselessly, there could be no losses because everything was virtualized and hedged. A few made huge profits, then everybody else had to bail out the whole industry - mainly those who never profited in the first place.
Tell me where is the profit? In bright kids straight out of university making gigantic salaries and bonuses, instead of learning the hard way, how to build a decent car or bicycle? In hyperinflated housing prices in London and south, where a normal person, earning a decent salary can't even dream of ever buying property to live in, not speculate? The fact that the taxpayers had to bail out the banks, receiving nothing in exchange?
Do keep the financial sector, allow it to grow and experiment, but stop throwing obstacles in the way of reasonable regulation, which will protect the middle class from the (occasional) follies and crises of the sector.
And stop blaming Europe for everything, already. Europe IS your biggest market. If you really can't stand the rest of us, think of us as clients who, when treated well, come back for more. If you keep kicking us in the teeth, we may go elsewhere for our business, thank you.
how true.
The tone of the article came off a bit defensive.
Seems strange to not expect negative attitudes to emerge about finance after such a massive crise caused by finance transpired, only four years ago.
Unless of course you think the unwashed have short memories or shouldn't form opinions on topics they may not know much about.
Otherwise, I recalled this magazine and business leaders championing austerity measures, so why should they be surprised that taxes may be included in the package.
Finally, the article seems to convey some mix messages, in both conceding the need for regulation, but then crying that the sky is falling. Heck, I thought the banks in the City got bailed out or merged with relatively stronger organizations, and the management received its compensation despite the turmoil over the past four years.
By the way, I think 50% tax rates are too high, I still feel finance serves a critical function with capital allocation, and believe that Britain will have to rely on a relatively larger finanical sector than most countries for its well being.
I think it is important to cultivate competitive advantages (which I believe are created, not innate, like the article suggests, unless it is a special plant or mineral coming out of the ground).
Did like the percentages, but would have also like to see hard figures on employment and value of services (ok, percentage of GDP too would have been nice), but maybe those come up in the main article.
"Unless of course you think the unwashed have short memories or shouldn't form opinions on topics they may not know much about."
Washed or unwashed, I think Abraham Lincoln's advice that it's better to be silent is quite apt when it comes to topics one doesn't know much about.
As for the Lincoln quote,
For private conversations, probably a wise move when outside of friendly circles.
Suggesting the electorate keep silent on matters of policy though, well that suggests technocracy or maybe an old forms of representative government (pre-1832 UK; the original drafters of the US Constitution) at best. Dictatorship at worse.
Simple fact is that when matters come up about bailouts, fraud, taxation (and where burdens are placed), etc., some affirmation or assent from the electorate on policies should be secured.
And it is a simple fact most of the electorate will not be very familiar with many aspects of the financial industry (or other complex industries, like energy for that fact).
An inattentive electorate, plus poor education on policy options, if not misinformation from outright partisan propaganda has probably made worsen both political and economic stability over the past decade, and hindered efforts at ensuring an orderly, productive financial system.
I'll take technocracy any day over populist amateurism. This is precisely because, as you say, most of the electorate is not very familiar with complex industries. And, if someone's not going to go to the trouble of becoming moderately well informed, at least have the decency to not muck things up for the rest of us who are.
Quite simply, I cannot understand why anyone would have a definite opinion on an issue they have little understanding of. There are plenty of things I don't know all that much about, and in those cases I'd much rather the experts trust their own judgement than listen to me (not that there's any danger of that actually happening).
There is still a lot of room between "technocracy" and "populist amateurism": it's called general culture and common sense. Common sense allows us to analyse facts we have at our disposal and decide what decision to make without, necessarily, specialist knowledge. E.g. you can decide which car to buy, without being a mechanic or motoring journalist. You can decide to buy a house, without being an architect. You can vote in elections, without being a professional politician. I would tend to define populist amateurs people who refuse to even consider that, to pay a debt, you need income instead of a lack of income. It's as if a bank demanded that, if you have trouble repaying a debt, you should be made redundant, so that you can pay your debt. Can you see the connection here? Does the US campaign ring any bells, just in case it's too difficult to spot the connection? We are called to make decisions every day, without being specialists. We may not be perfect, but most of us manage very well, thank you. So, mere mortals can and should judge super specialists who know their subject very well, but they are not immune from hubris and loss of control.
PS: Take Switzerland: people vote, several times a year, in referenda on often complex subjects (including raising taxes!) There is a certain amount of populism and uninformed voters but, on the whole, the great unwashed seem to vote well, considering that Switzerland is in a better shape than most other countries with greater resources.
"Common sense allows us to analyse facts we have at our disposal and decide what decision to make without, necessarily, specialist knowledge."
That's all well and good, but I still don't want people who have never even taken an economics or finance course designing regulations for the financial sector. Certainly they need to explain the regulations they propose. A public and transparent debate between experts regarding the optimal level of regulation and specific proposals is also vital for maintaining public trust.
However, if those designing policy are using twitter feeds to help craft regulations, then God help us!
I agree that most people are perfectly capable of understanding policy and regulation. However, the vast majority simply don't have time to study proposed regulations, and their potential consequences, both intended and unintended. That's why we elect politicians (who then hire aides to perform that sort of drudgery).
PS: With regards to direct democracy in action, I'll see your Switzerland, and raise you California (which has yet to vote for a tax increase).
Thanks for clarifying your thought about specialist knowledge. As for California v. Switzerland, I agree that California wins on entrepreneurship, but the badly designed initiatives have made the state ungovernable, while Switzerland's finances are doing fine, thanks. If taxes are fair and the money is spent wisely, people don't mind paying. In fact, in Switzerland people vote to raise their own taxes - which would seem astonishing, but their priority is a healthy budget and decent services and they understand that they have to pay for it. The Swiss want to make money, but they also save it and spend it wisely. Greed exists, but not at such pathological levels that it replaces policies with mantras like "thou shalt not raise tax", when it clearly makes no sense. Using your appetite for wealth and food with moderation makes for healthy budgets and fit bodies - it's rare to see obese people around. Disclaimer: I am not Swiss.
California's problems are plausibly attributable not to its partial democracy but to its having to operate under the anti-democratic US Constitution. This has had two identifiable effects:
1. Adverse selection
Operating within the context of the United States, the California legislature is affected by – and infected by - the system of franchised monopoly government operating at the federal level, the two dominant parties that system has created, and the problem of "adverse selection" in general. Nobel laureate James Buchanan describes the phenomenon thus:
[S]uppose that a monopoly right is to be auctioned; whom will we predict to be the highest bidder? Surely we can presume that the person who intends to exploit the monopoly power most fully, the one for whom the expected profit is highest, will be among the highest bidders for the franchise. In the same way, positions of political power will tend to attract those persons who place higher values on the possession of such power. These persons will tend to be the highest bidders in the allocation of political offices. . . . Is there any presumption that political rent seeking will ultimately allocate offices to the 'best' persons? Is there not the overwhelming presumption that offices will be secured by those who value power most highly and who seek to use such power of discretion in the furtherance of their personal projects, be these moral or otherwise? Genuine public-interest motivations may exist and may even be widespread, but are these motivations sufficiently passionate to stimulate people to fight for political office, to compete with those whose passions include the desire to wield power over others?
Many of the problems attributed to "democracy" (a democracy which does not actually exist) are in fact attributable to the phenomenon of adverse selection.
Under such conditions it is entirely predictable that the system will adversely select megalomaniacs who act in their own interests, with minimal regard for the subjects they rule. It is inevitable that dishonest politicians will deliberately misrepresents the state of affairs to the public in their desperate attempts to secure votes. It is inevitable that they will engage in obscene competitions to hand out bread and circuses - each side seeking to outdo the other to secure power – running up unsustainable public debts in the process. And it is inevitable that they will engage in grubby auctions, buying off special interest groups and powerful lobbies piecemeal with gifts from the public purse . . . and look to receive favours in return, either in the form of support in government or employment in later life.
2. Judicial oligarchy.
The power of special interests in Californian initiatives is a result not of democracy, but of the savagely anti-democratic, unelected judicial oligarchs of the US Supreme Court who declare money to be "free speech" and corporations to be "people". (See, for example, Meyer v Grant, 1988 and Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, 1999). There is nothing the people of California (or other states with the right of initiative) can do to overturn the rulings of this tiny clique of elitist lawyers.
The notion that the Stinking Masses are incapable of understanding policy is a common argument promoted by paternalists. Anyone with experience of elective government knows that exactly the same problem arises with (so-called) "representatives". They simply do not have the time or the expertise – and in many cases the inclination – to understand all the policies on which they vote.
In practice political parties and legislatures handle this using the committee system, where a small number of people gain expertise in each area and make recommendations to the rest of the party or to the legislature as a whole.
And this is precisely the same system that operates in a properly functioning democracy. For example, Article 139 of the Swiss Federal Constitution specifies that:
An initiative in the form of a formulated draft shall be submitted to the vote of the People and the Cantons. The Federal Parliament shall recommend its approval or its rejection. If it recommends its rejection, it may submit its own counter-draft.
In practice the various parties publish their own recommendations, just as they do under elective government.
However, under purely elective government, the adversely politicians sitting on policy committees are subject to capture from special interest. The referendum system allows the People to act as final arbiters to prevent such corrupt practices.
Your point here would be ideal:
"Certainly they need to explain the regulations they propose. A public and transparent debate between experts regarding the optimal level of regulation and specific proposals is also vital for maintaining public trust."
However, it seems many systems fall short of that.
Then there is the problem of insider communities failing outright.
The recent Great Recession resulted from collective failings of the experts, insiders, business leaders, etc.. Depending on ones political thinking, blame gets distributed between an avaricious financial community, captured regulators and shifty, grasping politicians that don't want to step on any toes of key backers (both Dems and Republicans)
So what do you do when the technocrats and people in the know are wrong? Seems we get some pretty tragic consequences, strange kinds of spasms of governmental action witnessed over the past four years.
Comparing the "City" to Silicon Valley is so ridiculous that I did not expect it even from the Economist. This reprehensible article reads more like a propaganda piece than balanced reporting from an esteemed magazine of economics (however much that reputation has already been damaged).
Another progaganda piece from this hundreds years old esteemed magazine is the last artice about Ron Paul a few days ago.....
It was so unbalanced, it generated hundreds of unhappy comments, very few comments agreed with.....
How sad?
The fact that all the teenaged pothead Ron Paulbots have no better things to do with their time than to troll all corners of the internet does not prove that global media is little more than an just a conspiracy theory against St. Ron Paul.
Financial services are fine and should be defended.
But much of the 'casino banking' activity does not actually generate net wealth, any more than does any other form of gambling. It just shifts it around and the UK has lost badly (probably from our alarmingly underfunded pensions) as well as gained from this, with maybe little overall gain.
This is quite different from Silicon Valley, which does design and make real wealth-creating stuff. FTR the UK also does this (think of ARM, the dominant force worldwide in mobile processors). But ARM bosses do not pay themselves mega-bonuses for largely artificial gains, much at the taxpayers' expense. City bosses have only their own greed to blame. Perhaps we should save some of them from themselves but a little humility would help.
The global financial centre is changing, the City needs Changes!
Trading Chinese yuan may be a good idea.
I suppose majority of readers of Economoist are not idiots.
I'm afraid, at least, you should understand that Chinese Yuan is under strict regulation from People's Bank of China. Tranding Chinese Yuan? It's not up to you. Wanna do business with Chinese? At least learn some modesty and how to bow first.
You talk about here that "Finance, the funnelling of savings to their best use - is a vital industry -n and London is quite good at that".
What utter rubbish - the City knows aabsoutely nothing about finance other that for their own personal greed and pockets.
If you want to learn / see how finance should really work for all levels of civil society than go to Frankfurt and and see how KFW has supported German industry for 60 odd years and then go and meet with the 700 odd local German banks whose directors, management (decison makers on the spot)industrial and commercial businesses and retail customers all work together with the "invisable hand" to a create mutual serving cohesive society and then you will find out at both the micro and macro level how "finance" really works.
At least you know how to spell the word "finance" but that is all you all at the Economist and the FT really know about the realworld of finance.
Too bad really - you are a disgrace, along with the City itself, to any well meaning and developed civil society trying to survive in a real political economy.
Ahh yes, the amazing German Landesbanks that gorged themselves on Sub-Prime mortgages and Greek Government Bonds. Trust me, there is a reason why Germany has let the ECB lend half a trillion to the banks - to prop up this 'civil society' of bankers. Germany's elite is just as greedy as the rest - if not more so.
Canuk - your comments really are a disgrace. Every time I read an economist article about the City I see your pathetic, bitter bleatings about Frankfurt. Every one contains a short list of the failings of the City of London and British/American culture followed by a list of reasons for favouring wonderful Frankfurt.
It would not surprise me at all if you also spend time on fashion blogs extolling the virtues of the Frankfurt design scene, or angrily foaming at the mouth on TripAdvisor at the lack of interest in Frankfurt's tourist hot-spots?
I'm sure to you Frankfurt is the most wonderful place in the universe, but judging by every one of the hundreds of comments you have posted, you are having trouble really convincing youself of it.
Perhaps if you spent more time doing the things you enjoy rather than reading the Economist and FT (which you seem to despise, so why read them?) you would be a happier, more content and confident person.
"Britain will one day wake up to discover that it has lost... the best hope the next generation has of earning a decent living."
Absolutely - we must at all cost ensure that the tiny minority of England's most affluent graduates can forever be guaranteed a decent job in the City. Why stimulate the bulk of the economy if it only supports indecent living on paltry incomes below £50,000?
Good article, I actually agree with its views.
I've always felt protesting isn't going to make capitalism go away. Nor is picking on the rich or the greedy bankers. Taxing the wealthy is a drop in the ocean in the tax jar. The City needs the greedy bankers to stay or they'll be greedy elsewhere (e.g. Asia/emerging economies) and the City won't be the City no more! Think we've got to look at the big picture here and the long term- instead of focusing on a handful of bonuses. A moral banker? wishful thinking- so move on!
Regulation will be good step forward- only if it helps rather than hinders the financial system. Hope they get that bit right at least.
Letting financial elite do what they please without any limits or responsibilities is an aberration; such aberrations in system based on capitalism (is there any other?) may be unavoidable but that does not mean we should allow them to corrupt our societies.
It is obvious that you are
A) An American (your deficient intellect and poor use of the language give you away)
B) One who aspires to be one of the 1%
C) A stooge for the 1%
Know that you will never attain your aspiration.
@ Frumious in reply to pdtvdtFm82 Jan 9th 2012 5:59 GMT
'Sir: It is obvious that you are
A) An American (your deficient intellect and poor use of the language give you away)….'
I did not read 'pdtvdtfm82's post and don't know who s/he is, but a funny thing happened on the way to this forum. your insult of americans are silly and offending, yet you sound american too.
"It is obvious that you are
A) An American (your deficient intellect and poor use of the language give you away)
B) One who aspires to be one of the 1%
C) A stooge for the 1%"
It seems that Americans are at least smarter than you. Why would you resort to such childish comments? Your stereotyping of Americans is rather uneducated and shows your lack of intellect more than anything. If your country teaches you such simplistic thinking, America must be doing much better.
Dear Frumious,
Just seen this. No offence taken with this but...
You could not be more incorrect in your absolutely baseless comments- to add, all your assumptions are far from the truth, in fact no where near. I thought best to clarify. Please see below.
'Sir: - NOT A SIR. MADAM WOULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE THANK YOU.
It is obvious that you are - YOU SURE IT'S OBVIOUS?
A) An American (your deficient intellect and poor use of the language give you away)- NEVER BEEN TO AMERICA IN MY LIFE. ON THE CONTRARY, SPENT THE LAST 7 YEARS PAYING TAXES TO YOUR GOVERNMENT AND CONTRIBUTING TO YOUR ECONOMY. OH AND HELPING TO PAY FOR PERFECTLY CAPABLE PEOPLE TO STAY AT HOME AND LIVE OFF THE DOLE.
B) One who aspires to be one of the 1% - WORK IN THE DEVELOPMENT AID SECTOR. DON'T PLAN ON BEING A BANKER. I WORK HARD FOR MY LIVING JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. DON'T NEED TO ASPIRE.
C) A stooge for the 1% - CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT JOB YOU DO MATE. CLEARLY YOU ARE UNHAPPY.
Know that you will never attain your aspiration.' SEE ABOVE.
Oh dear, I support the free-market approach and you don't. Tired of people winging about bankers and bonuses.
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