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Dropping money from helicopters or their respectable economic equivalents ( subsidies to banks, propping up and extending handout programs like long term unemployment benefits) is great for reelection politics but has historically had a NEGATIVE impact on long term job and wealth creation. The stagnation here in America ,in Europe and for an entire generation in Japan shows this stagnation effect of constant fiat money creation not backed by real economic activity as convincingly as economic propositions get demonstrated by real world data and experience ever, anywhere.
Inflation is tame in America notwithstanding massive monetary emissions by the Fed because that august organization has been in a race to create money at least as fast as it is destroyed. We all know how fractional banking works and the write-off of loans by banks and their reluctance to make new ones, especially in housing, vaporizes a good part of the money supply. Mr. Bernake's monetary largess is, therefore, compensatory and, thus, not very likely to create inflation. If water drains out of a glass at the same rate water pours into it, the glass neither goes dry or overflows.
The various QEs and Twists may, indeed, have cut the unemployment rate. But, by now we may well suspect that the effect is temporary -- the monetary equivalent of a No-Doz pill. I used this last item liberally in college while "booking" for a test but the damn things wore off pretty fast -- so I had to keep popping them. Thus, Mr. Bernanke.
The American economy is a balloon that has wanted to land, now, for sometime. Every time its gondola starts to scrape ground Mr. Bernake fires up the monetary burners and up we go! For about six months. It might be sounder to let the balloon hit the ground and remain there for a while until, to strain a metaphor, sandbags in the form of excess leverage are finally emptied and the damn thing can take the sky on its own.
The one area where prices have inflated is the stock market. There is some sign that housing is starting to rebound. But, is asset inflation likely to result in a sustained recovery? More likely, it will further concentrate wealth in the hands of those with large investment portfolios -- and give Mr. Obama further opportunity to denounce the rich!
And, it's not as if zero interest rates are all upside. The biggest cohort of the American population, the Boomers, is now slowly retiring on virtually no interest income and the effect of this on consumer spending is incalculable. Furthermore, this lack of spending ability means they must draw down on principal and that means they will be wise to hoard, save and hide funds.The best advice for these people isn't to spend, spend, spend to boost the economy but to save, save, save and hunker down with their assets.
And, come to think of it, the economy still needs a good wringing out -- and the sooner the better. Cheap money is not prosperity -- it is cheap money. Despite vaunted low interest rates, the carrying charge on credit cards is about as high as ever. The increase in the use of those cards by Americans, reported last month, indicates that they are still addicted to credit. Thus, those with a little bit of surplus capital find personal credit just as expensive but their return on savings is risible. Long term, even short term, this is a recipe for recession.
As a final note, low interest rates make it easier to finance our national debt, The Monster That Devoured Cleveland. Eventually, though, the Fed will have to let rates rise -- and how does the country pay its debt service when this happens? Aren't we just borrowing against a very near future?
Maybe it's time to ground the damn helicopter!
I think the US credit card has bought about as much as we taxpayers can afford. As low as T-Bills interest is thanks to China, the printer is free and has the decided advantage of being a true structural reform.
Does QE stand for Quantitative Employment? LOL
Isn't that what America needs? Qualitative Employment would be fine too! Printing money is a facile enterprise, but it's not that easy to print jobs eh? Not even Bain Capital can do that!
Perhaps the US needs FDR style (or Hitler-style) Public Works (or anything that works(sic), public or private lol) to create some jobs (that pay better than at Shenzhen Heaven)
Anyway printing food stamps (FS) or welfare checks (WC) might be the way to go.
Quantitative Easing is just a "massage with happy ending (the third one already)?" between the Feds and the Wall Street Vampire Squids (Llord Bankenstein from Goldfinger-Sechs?)
Palliatives are not "cures" but barriers to structural reforms which punish idleness and reward innovation, hard work and risk taking! FDR much less Hitler is NOT a model for anything economically rational and lasting.
So the 700 trillion US$ derivatives market (roughly 10 times the nominal GDP of the whole world!) is "real economic activity"? Who wants to make "an honest living" nowadays, if you can make a lot more money on Wall Street with a Harvard MBA. The "return on investment" is way too low, for say a "teacher" and anyway the "cheap labour" stuff can be done by Chinese an Indians (that's what's good about globalisation!). It's all about the METRIC man!
Besides risk-taking is easy if you get a "free lunch" (or bail-out as it is known!) with taxpayer's money or QE's.
America is the Home of the Brave Bankers!
*a higher THAN EXPECTED inflation rate corresponds to a lower real interest rate
A high inflation rate, if anticipated by lenders/borrowers, has no real impact
"Quantitative easing" is to bankers what "Sustainability" is to entrepreneurs. Use it numerous times during a speech and people will think you're a smart guy.
This is what happens when you put a socialist in charge of the government. Print money, load up on debt, raise everyone's taxes, this is classic Obamanomics. Only a succesful business man can run our country not a community organizer.
First, the man's not a socialist by definition (doesn't want the state to own the means of production). Second, as for successful businessmen alone knowing how to run a country, would you consider Lincoln, TR, FDR, Truman and maybe even Reagan successful businessmen? And can you think of more effective leaders than they were? Wise up, me bucko, and quit spouting poorly understood pavlovian cant. You cando betterthanthat.
I recall this exact argument being blared ad nauseum for Trump's campaign. Gotta hand it to him: the man's done well in business. Well, excluding all those pesky bankruptcies.
I don't think most of us are comfortable with the idea of our government being run with the profound risk of failure that accompanies most entrepreneurial endeavors. A quick & dirty Chapter 7 or 11 is one thing. But there's no chapter in the bankruptcy code for an insolvent nation.
True, it generally gets covered under the section headed "War".
Great scholarly article. I have long wondered why the Fed can maintain historically low rate while the dollar is also in great decline and debt has risen to alarming levels, apparently it works, part of the reason is though borrowing activities dried up from 2009 and are slowly recovering, liquidity did not seem to be, there are still excessive liquidity in the global market, and they are bidding up bond prices and driving down yield, even in the face of falling yields and unstable political environments. If these excessive liquidity were unleashed (driven away from bond markets), then we will see true arrival of inflation fears.
Considering that the trillions of dollars "printed" by the Fed for QE1 and QE2 are just sitting in the banks as reserves right now, I'd say it was a pretty clearly flawed monetary experiment. How bout *gasp* giving the money to the government to spend on a stimulus project or writing down debts??
Because that's what happened up until WWII and it allowed gov's to abuse money and never control their spending...good example being pre-Hitler Germany, or Spain in 1600's
So you put rules in place to prevent that from happening.. not very complicated. QE1/2 was trillions of dollars and had no major impact on inflation or exchange rates
True, but who institutes and oversees those rules? Congress + President - the very people who have to a lot to gain by relaxing or circumventing those rules once implemented.
Conflict of interest much?
Well Washington is the home of conflicts of interest, what better place! :)
I hope the perpetrators of these monetary crimes against humanity will better sooner than later be held responsible in a court.
There are forms of oppression, misery and inhumane suffering in this world which are far worse than "my central banker is keeping interest rates low". I don't think we can rightly call this a "crime against humanity".
Sooner or later this has to end. All that's being done right now is pushing on a string. One can reduce interest rates all one wants to and not change anything about the economy. Without demand to borrow, there will be no upswing in the economy at large, and this will not happen until people show increased demand for goods.
Another point, this is simply pushing our demand for a quick fix when none exists. We are becoming reliant on this quick fix in order to devolve ourselves of our responsibilities as contributors to the economy rather than bloated and entitled masses we have become.
As an American, I feel no entitlement other than the entitlement to not have my country's wealth extracted by bad actors.
Admirable, but I'm not sure that that mentality is particularly American anymore. After all, the zeal of our largest age cohort in protecting its benefits is matched only by its unwillingness to pay for them.
I'm sorry folks, we are giving the Fed far more credit/ blame for the economy they really can control. The Fed tools were meant to be temporary, like weaning from a bad drug. The tools have little power to actually do long term permanent structural improvement. Unfortunately, those tools used in excess and with poor judgment, can inflict much long term harm. Printing money and lowering rates has become a permanent crutch which will lead to permanent crippling. Keeping rates low/cheap money, is what got us in this mess in the first place. The worst is yet to come.
Before the Clinton administration, the Federal Reserve was largely an unknown entity in the wings, keeping a low profile and doing the right thing for country without fanfare or political strings. Human behavior and psychology was not part of their equation. After Clinton provided a "coming out party" for the Fed Chairman Greenspan at the time (thank you Mr. C), the position seems to have gained rock star status (Do you even recall who was Fed chairman before Greenspan?) and every word spouted, rocks the markets. The Fed is now swayed by political, media and Wall Street interests and feeds on its own hype and ratings. Why did Greenspan keep rates so low for so long ? – because he was in the limelight and as such did not want to get blamed for a normal cyclical recession pattern that should have unfolded gradually—"not on my watch!". Now we are left with his legacy.
Our problems can only be solved long term by politician's who will put in place policies and budget changes to "do the right thing" (and they all know what those things are), and put aside partisanship.
I think the best thing the media and commoner can do is just ignore the Fed, and let them go back to their rightful job of providing temporary band-aids in the wings.
The Fed bears the responsibility for blowing the credit bubble in the first place. http://independentstockanalysis.com/
Yes, but the FED only provided this level of Monetary stimulus because Congress refused to provide enough Fiscal stimulus due to the Fad of Fiscal austerity (starting with Clinton).
you hv indicated with QE:the Gov sell of short term securities in order to buy long term securities , will help investors via increase in asset prices.My comment: this was the reason for 2008 crisis because it created an artificial increase in price not subject to real demand. what u hv indicated will be good for speculators not investors. how can a yestarday problem be a sloution today!!?
When we're adding more dollars to gross public debt than we are to GDP, how can we say that QE is "working" ?
QE doesn't add to the public debt..
Step 1 is to add to the public debt.
Step 2 is QE to move the debt to an off balance-sheet Enron-style special purpose entity managed by the Fed.
Step 3 - when the Fed is ready to sell, who is going to buy?
The US government has a $1.270 trillion deficit which omits $0.591 trillion implied 1st year principle reduction representing a reasonable 3% 20-year amortization. If the debt merry-go-round were to stop today we would have to decide how to blend two extremely bad outcomes: 1) Spending cuts plus tax increases equal to 12.1% of GDP, 2) 1,105% hyperinflation to reduce debt to a manageable one year's income tax payments.
QE appears to me to be de-facto default. We're pushing down interest rates below the inflation rate and destroying a positive yield curve.
When I look at the US government's creditworthiness I see debt equal to 12+ year's income tax receipts. I'd look for a 7% to 8% yield * pre-tax * 30 year T-Bond.
Where is there the slightest bit of comfort in all of this alleged sophistication?
There's not much comfort because QE didn't accomplish it's goal of getting banks to lend more money, they just threw it on the shelves or sent it overseas. But the debt that was purchased by the Fed already existed (MBS and treasuries), it wasn't issued for the purpose of QE. The fact that people are still buying bonds at 2.5% that you would value at 8% tells us a good deal about the *relative* strength of the U.S. economy at least..
Bond purchasers probably are buying in anticipation of a further decline in interest rates. In the short term they could well be right. As far as creditworthiness goes, if an individual earning $23K per year, spending $36K per year, who owes $158,900 wants still more credit, he should not receive it. Our illustrious Senate will spend every dollar they can borrow or tax. The Fed's "sophistication" is simply giving them license, and they are taking it. Eventually, the merry-go-round will stop. It won't stop because the economy starts growing fast enough to support the government.
Why does QE have to involve the purchase of government paper? In the current situation it would make more sense to buy other assets. E.G. the Spanish problem has not been caused by government profligacy (they used to run a surplus) but by a collapsing real estate market; so restoring health to real estate prices would do most to cure the illness. Besides, German voters might also prefer to see the ECB buying tangible assets - who wouldn't prefer owning a holiday home in Marbella rather than a government IOU of questionable value! And once QE succeeds and prices start rising, the asset may even make a profit.
There are precedents: During the Asian crisis in 1997/8 the Hongkong government bought shares in the local stock market; once that market was brought back to sanity, the attack on the HK$ also fizzled out. And eventually the government made a killing on the shares.
More recently, the purchase of UBS shares by the Swiss government in 2008 saved the bank, and also made a clean billion for the tax payer. No conservative could be against such an outcome.
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Even if the central banks conduct QE it cannot force the intermediaries (the normal banks) to lend the money. This negates most of the benefits of QE.
The question and issue is why normal banks are not lending? which I think we all know why, so that leads to the question on how to get them to lend the money.
Keep in mind that last time government (especially the USA) made the banks lend money it created the housing bubble.
Additionally, when QE does occur it seems to cause higher commodity prices which hinders economic growth and consumer spending.
a final comment: I was looking in the article for something on the effect QE causes on the value of a currency. as this is part of the reason for the rise in commodity prices.
The definition of Insanity...doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting different results. A market system is the best way society has found to deal with the law of scarcity by obtaining the gains from the division of labor. Money plays a critical role since it allows society to make the necessary calculations to be able to allocate resources where society wants it the most. Central banks, by altering the amount of money, interfere with the transmission mechanism of prices which allows the calculations necessary to best meet society's demand. If the classical economists were alive today, they would be amazed on how economic science has regressed.
The LIBOR rate-fixing scandal has nothing on this for a rate-fixing scam.
Fiscal policy is dead. Sovereign balance sheets need to be brought back to reality and the value of assets corrected. If rates were allowed to rise, asset prices would deflate. But instead central banks are forcing the opposite: fiat currency is being debased with stimulus, forcing inflation upon everyone and in some cases maintaining (perhaps even worsening) the bubble.
It means that anyone who ever did the prudent thing & saved their money is now being punished: holders of cash (ordinary working people) become the central bank's chosen losers, in favour of 'asset' owners (the rich, the banks) who are the central bank's preferred winners.
"Some of the expected impact may be priced in before QE is announced, as happened when Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, hinted at QE2 in the summer of 2010."
If expectations and rumors of future QE are too prevalent, does the Fed become hostage to the market's expectations?
With too many optimistic investors betting on new QE, the Fed will suddenly be stuck with the option to either follow through with a new round for increasingly diminished returns, or disappoint the market, thereby, not just leaving it as-is, but causing it to drop by however much the expected impact was priced by the short-term speculators.
Maybe in the near future when QE becomes routine, Mr. Bernanke can use such a disappointment to rein in that inflation wildfire he fears so much.
By increasing the money supply when velocity has fallen QE is a good way for central banks to avoid deflation. But to avoid inflation when velocity returns they'll need to sell securities (or the governments need to increase taxes) - Quantitative Tightening.
Central banks that show the discipline to soak up liquidity and avoid inflation when velocity returns will earn trust. Raising inflation targets on the other hand will destroy trust and could raise interest rates enough to more than offset any benefits from higher inflation.
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Yeah, Google's come up with a solution to this as well, just like they have for all of our other problems
Great column.
"Even a modestly effective new round of QE should quickly lift inflation expectations back to target."
Interestingly, the Bank of England's latest announcement of a £50bn increase in QE on the 5th of July barely shifted inflation expectations at all:
3.5 year UK instantaneous implied inflation forward curve according to the BoE:
02 Jul 12 1.95
03 Jul 12 1.97
04 Jul 12 2.00
05 Jul 12 1.96
06 Jul 12 1.92
09 Jul 12 1.88
10 Jul 12 1.87
11 Jul 12 1.85
Maybe £50bn was already priced in. However, inflation (RPI) expectations of 1.85% is consistent with CPI falling below 2%. The Bank of England clearly needs to do more to convince the gilt market that it will maintain demand.
Between Jan 2000 and August 2008 inflation expectations fell below 2% on 10 of 2,160 days. Between September 2008 and end of June 2012 inflation expectations have fallen below 2% on 171 of 942 days.
I don't understand why the Bank of England is not getting more criticism for failing to maintain aggregate demand and inflation expectations.
Surely newspapers owners and journalists would prefer sufficient aggregate demand to sell advertisements and newspapers. So why do so many newspapers (e.g. the Daily Telegraph, the Mail and the Times) write so much negative press about quantitative easing and expansionary monetary policy?
I can only presume that they do not understand monetary policy to realize the editorial lines they are making are against their own interests.
Naturally excepting the magnificent coverage in the FT and the economist.
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LIVING OUTDOOR: a courtyard (patio) with a mural fountain occupies the ground floor. On the first floor, there is a chill out balcony with a view on the patio. On the top floor, the large roof terrace of about 100m2 is the best place to enjoy the sunshine during the day and the deliciously breezy evenings of Marrakesh. This is a place for relaxation and meditation. All plants found on the terrace and in the patio are typical of Morocco. The house is the home of bougainvillea, hibiscus, cactus, orange trees, laurels and palms trees.
STAFF AND SERVICES: Bed sheets, towels and usual amenities such as hairdryers are provided in each bedroom. A French-speaking caretaker comes in regularly to clean the main areas and, if you wish, she can also clean the bed rooms at no extra costs.
MEALS: Dinner and breakfast (typical Moroccan dishes) can be ordered for an additional fee if you want to eat at home.
INTERNET ACCESS: Free Internet access through a Wi-Fi connection is available.
TRANSPORTATION: A private shuttle can be reserved to pick you up from the airport or the train station. The price (one way trip) is 15€ (for up to 7 persons). The shuttle is also available for sightseeing trips you might want to make around Marrakesh. Taking our shuttle is a good way to get to know the driver and the vehicle in case you plan such a trip and want it to be arranged by us.
ARRIVAL/DEPARTURE: Our house is available from 1600 on the day of arrival and must be vacated by 1000 on the day of departure. If possible, though, this will be flexible depending on your final flight arrival and departure times.
SMOKING: Smoking is allowed on the roof terrace and in the patio.
VISITORS: No local visitors are allowed entry to the Riad during your stay. This restriction is necessary because of the Moroccan legislation.
NEIGHBORS: It is expected that our guests do not make excessive noise that could disturb our neighbors. Furthermore, it is not allowed to be naked on the roof terrace. We also ask our guests not to unnecessarily look at the terraces and patios of the riads in the neighborhood. The roof terraces in Morocco were originally reserved for women.
NOT TO BE MISSED: walking is the best way to explore the medina (old city) of Marrakesh. Here are a few ideas of where your steps should take you:
- Jemaa El Fnaa: Marrakesh's main square, 15 min walk
-Main souks, 5 min walk
- Yacout, famous restaurant, 4 min walk
- Musée de Marrakesh, 7 min
- Medersa Ben Youssef (old Koranic university), 7 min
- Café Arabe, 7min
- Terrasse des Épices (beautiful roof terrace), 7 min
- KosyBar, restaurant with beautiful roof terrace, 20 min
- Restaurant Tanjia, restaurant with belly dancing 20 min
- «Palais Bahia», «Palais Badii» 20 min
- Place des Ferblantiers, 20 min
- Saadian tombs (Kasbah area), 20 min
CONTACT US: If you have any questions about our riad or Marrakesh, please don't hesitate to contact us.
From our guest-book:
This week in Marrakesh we had the impression of living in a fairy tale. This incredibly diverse city with her charming inhabitants and this wonderful house, renovated with lots of attention to detail and care - congratulations - enchanted us. When we entered this haven of silence and contemplation, exhausted from the thousand and one impressions gathered from the city life, we sought refuge in the library to read a book and restore our strength with a cup of mint tea. It was marvelous.
This riad is really beautiful and renovated with attention to detail, congratulations. We really enjoyed the stay outside of the riad (Essaouira, the Dads Valley and the Ourika Valley) as well. Thanks a lot, we will definitely come back to stay at your riad.
We spent a wonderful week in Marrakech. Thank you for letting us stay at your riad. It was like living in «the Thousand and One Nights»: beautiful surroundings and an enchanting atmosphere. Abdel took good care of us. He is very obliging and reliable. We enjoyed discovering the region by car with Kamal. Future guests may be interested to know that on the road, he stops at craftmen's shops, where you can buy items of their production. Don't forget to take money with you because it's worth it!
Altogether, this was a very successful week.
Coming back from Morocco – happy and fulfilled – I'd like to thank you for letting us stay at your beautiful riad. The surprise upon entering this wonderful space is total after going through the alleyways leading to the riad. The place is charming and has been tastefully decorated. We hope that we could manage to come back again, maybe in April next year...
We would like to thank you for our stay in your house. We really enjoyed living there and it helped us getting ready for our Moroccan adventure. The three and a half weeks went by really quickly, but we savored every single day, taking time for ourselves and time to get to know the country with the eyes of children.
SMOKING: Smoking is allowed on the roof terrace and in the patio.
ARRIVAL/DEPARTURE: Our house is available from 1600 on the day of arrival and must be vacated by 1000 on the day of departure. If possible, though, this will be flexible depending on your final flight arrival and departure times.
VISITORS: No local visitors are allowed entry to the Riad during your stay. This restriction is necessary because of the Moroccan legislation.
NEIGHBORS: It is expected that our guests do not make excessive noise that could disturb our neighbors. Furthermore, it is not allowed to be naked on the roof terrace. We also ask our guests not to unnecessarily look at the terraces and patios of the riads in the neighborhood. The roof terraces in Morocco were originally reserved for women.
Es hat schon toll angefangen: sofort nach der Anmeldung haben wir die genauste Informationen von Aleks bekommen. Gleich haben wir uns bei ihm gut begleitet gefühlt. Dann noch eine wirksame Hilfe bei der Essaouira Aufenthalt. Angekommen in Marrakesch, hat uns gleich Nadia und Fatima bestens betreut. Gleich alle Fragen geklärt und Ausflüge organisiert. Auch eine sehr gute Empfehlung für Lamama Bistro gegeben. Da haben wir noch nicht geahnt, wie tief und aufwändig wir dann die Hilfe von denen und vor allem von Ahmed in Anspruch nehmen werden. Gleich in der Nacht musste ich ins Krankenhaus gehen und nach der schweren Operation dort mehere Tage bleiben. Ahmed ist bei allen anfallenden Aktionen zur Seite gestanden. Egal wann und wie lange. Ob es Nachttransport ins Krankenhaus nötig war, oder Medikamenten holen, oder den ganzen Tag unsere Gruppe mit Wasser und Bananen versorgen oder danach jeden Tag mich im Krankenhaus zu besuchen. Die stetige Wünsche von Nadia und Aleks haben uns auch begleitet.
Über Riad haben viele frühere Bewohnen - zur Recht - sehr gut geschrieben. Wir möchten jedoch die Wärme und Hilfe von Ahmed, Nadia und Fatima als sehr große Gewinn unterstreichen. Danke!
Lovely riad. Spacious and bright, very nicely furnished in the traditional way. We were there during a cold stretch in February and found it blissfully warm for Marrakech, mostly because of the very practical transparent cover of the atrium. Very much appreciated! As someone else noted, "magnificent" can be a confusing word in Marrakech as the riad is not the super luxurious kind that one finds elsewhere there, but it is certainly wonderful compared to a normal house. Excellent wifi too. But our special thanks go to Fatima who took care of the house, made us breakfasts and cooked us two delicious dinners. She is the most lovely person we met in twelve days in Marrakech. We would go back just for her!
Home rules, welcome procedures and "how to" reach the riad are outstanding. The Riad is not at all " Magnificient" , it is a "honest" small riad, renewed a little bit roughly, and needing a hard cleaning maintenance, terrace included. The price of 30 euro per room should be fair. In january the Riad is quite cold. Fatima cooks very well and I warmly suggest to taste her dinners and breakfasts.
Nous avons été très bien reçus par Fatima et sa cuisine était très bonne. Le riad correspondait parfaitement à la description faite par Aleks et très joliment décoré.
Marcher jusqu'à la place Jemaa el-Fnaa dure environ 20 mn et la proximité des souks est sympa sans être bruyante.
Tout en ayant quelques matins et soirées un peu frais dans le patio en cette fin décembre, malgré les chauffages d'appoint - c'est une jolie expérience de vivre à la Marocaine de la sorte.
Nous avons passé une très agréable semaine dans le riad de Aleks, celui-ci est très fonctionnel et parfaitement conforme à la description. La terrasse est magique, lieu parfait pour prendre un verre tout en refaisant le monde... Nous étions 5 golfeurs, la prise en charge a été parfaite, Aleks a tout prévu pour le transport depuis l'aéroport, puis pour nous guider jusqu'au riad (même très tard) et enfin faire assurer le petit déjeuner dès le premier jour. Nous avons pu ainsi convenir avec le chauffeur de nos différentes excursions. Tout est donc fait pour un parfait moment de détente dans un environnement soigné. Je recommande vivement les services de Aleks à Marrakech !
I travelled to Marrakech with five other friends and stayed in Riad Naila. We could not have been happier! Aleks was always quick to answer any questions we had and supply helpful information. We were met at the airport by a taxi driver named Kamal who then dropped us off at a taxi stand close to the Riad. Kamal later agreed to take us on a day tour to Essaouira. Fatima (the housekeeper) was there waiting for us along with a colleague who helped us with our luggage. The Riad was spotlessly clean, very comfortable and well equipped. Fatima is a brilliant cook, as well as a lovely, very helpful person. The Riad is centrally located. All in all, it was a lovely experience!
Truly a magnificent Riad!! My husband and 2yr old son and I traveled to Marrakech with another couple and their 2 children (4yrs & 2yrs). The Riad was a magical place that we all found delightful. There was more than enough room for all of us to be very comfortable. The beauty & serenity within the Riad makes for a perfect resting place after a long day of exploring. Aleks was very excellent as a host. His communication was always timely and helpful. We organized transportation to and from the airport through Aleks and were very pleased with how accommodating everyone was to our needs. We organized meals at the Riad (2 dinners and many breakfasts!). All of the food preparation by Fatima was truly wonderful! She was a wonderful and pleasant hostess. The children loved her kindness. We also organized a tour of the city through the Riad and were impressed and delighted by Ben our tour guide. The Riad had all the amenities needed to be comfortable while being located in a very authentic and historic part of the city. The location was wonderful. We enjoyed walking everywhere and exploring the Souks, Jemaa el Fna, Ali Ben Youssef Madrasa and more. I won't hesitate to recommend this Riad to any family or friends that visit Marrakech! We are very thankful of Aleks and his team for helping to make our first trip to Morocco a memorable and amazing one!!
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I have been in love with Marrakech, its inhabitants and Moroccan artwork for many years. The first time I was struck by the beauty of Morocco was when, after hitchhiking from Switzerland, I arrived in Tangier in 1979.


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Fantastic hotel for Rome on a budget !
For Rome on a budget you couldn't find a nicer hotel.
Just 5 mins walk from Termini (the main train station and metro station). And absolute maximum of 20/30 minute walk to the main attractions such as Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps.
The room was clean, v.good air con (important in 30 degree heat) and serviced daily, the staff were very helpful and polite, all speaking english which is a fantastic bonus.
I'd recommend this hotel to anyone, don't be put off by it being 2 stars, its much nicer than what I would expect a 2 star hotel to be.
Good thing in a small package
All the reviews I read before the trip were accurate. Hotel Gabriella was a nice base for our first night in Rome. The staff were friendly, and we were surprised by the quality of the room. Our room was quite small, but everything we wanted was packed inside. This was probably the only drawback.
Overall, it was an enjoyable night in a relatively quiet area, and I would recommend the hotel.
Nice place to stay
Hotel Gabriella was a nice place to stay. My husband and I unfortunately chose to go to Rome Good Friday to Easter Sunday, so everything was booked solid and way overpriced. We decided to stay at Hotel Gabriella due to the decent price. The room was very clean, but it was not excellent. But of course, this isn't rated as a four star hotel either. The staff was very friendly, especially the younger woman and gentleman who were working the front desk. They gave us great tips on places to eat and how to get around the city. The hotel is located a couple blocks from teh train station, which is convenient. My husband and I gave ourselves a good walk and decided to opt out on purchasing a subway ticket the first day. We were able to walk to the colosseum with a pretty good hike from the hotel. We also walked to the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, and all the other touristy spots all in the same day. The walk back to the hotel was a good hike, but definitely doable. Overall, our stay was very nice and I would recommend this place if you're needing a cheaper place to stay.
A Great little family run hotel!
Hotel Gabriella is nice little family run hotel in the hotel section near the train station, just a couple minute walk for the trains. With all the things you need close by, like restaurants, internet cafes, laundry mats, etc... The down side is this hotel is on a corner of a very busy street. The entrance isn't...so no worries about getting run over. But more the constant noise. Rome is getting more and more a 24hr city with cars, scooters, buses going at all hours of the day. If you stay here, at the very least get a room on the quieter side. It is a 30 min walk to the city center or the Spanish Steps. Never tried using the buses, well, never tied squeezing into those leaning tightly packed buses. So money was spent on Taxi cabs...which aren't bad. The most expensive one was 15 euros to the Vatican...and you can pack a few people into those cabs. And the shared cabs are even cheaper. Good luck on a cab when it rains! Also I stayed at another hotel on the same street on another trip and almost got robbed in the middle of the night a few years back. Those shutters are there for a reason. Room wise, they are clean. Ours did not have carpets...which was nice in one way...the place was really clean...but then you had to step on a cold floor...oh well...I can deal with it. For a two star we got a Bathtub!!!! Wow. Looking at the map...I guess the rooms alternate between showers and baths. Another thing I noticed....there is not much difference between two and four stars in Italy. The only distinguishing difference is when it was built or last remodeled. The size of the rooms don't very much...the only difference I can tell is the extra services that you'll never really use. I have stayed at dozens of hotels in Italy over the years. The entire hotel is clean and nice...which is surprising because the street, building, and stairwell to the 1st floor is not. The two daughters are wonderful, very friendly and helpful (and pretty too). The father takes pride in his place, and the one morning when our hot water heater broke (which really sucked!!!) they had a professional plumber there working on it within minutes!!! If you just need a basic place to stay...this place is great. If you must have something nice, there are better hotels in nicer sections of town...like the Anglo-American toward the Spanish steps or the ones on Palatine hill. But honestly I don't know why you need to spend more...save it for the operas and shops!!!
Do not stay at the Gabriella!!!!
Do not stay at the Hotel Gabriella. It is not located in a good part of Rome. The hotel gabriella is in like an apartment building with 3 other hotels located in the same building and you have to go upstairs to get to the hotel gabriella. Our room was small and was too pink. WE HAD A GREAT VIEW OUT THE WINDOW OF OUR ROOM, AN ALLEYWAY WITH A DUMPSTER THAT WAS FILLED WITH SMELLY TRASH!!!!WHAT A HOTEL!!!!!SPEND MORE MONEY AND STAY ELSEWHERE!!!!!
We booked a reservation at this hotel but when we arrived we were hustled quickly to another hotel, which turned out to be a DUMP! We missed our tour that night and Expedia won't do a DAMM THING! Sorry you don't get my vote.
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Why Potash Corp. Continues To Cut Production And Jobs
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Potash Inventories Continue To Pile Up While Fertilizer Stocks Try To Rally
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Why Potash Corp. Is Relatively Overvalued And Will Underperform Peers
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Mosaic Stumbles In Its Fiscal 2013, Is The Bottom In Yet?
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Corn And Soybean Prices Have Opposite Effect On Fertilizer, Food Company Stocks
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Potash Corp., Mosaic, And Agrium Each Get A Share Of Indian Potash Demand
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Potash Closes Disappointing 2012 - What Lies Ahead?
Feb. 3, 2013 • POT • 5 Comments
Potash Corp. Full-Year Earnings Preview - Things Don't Always Go As Planned
Jan. 29, 2013 • POT • 2 Comments
Potash Corp Looks To Acquire Israel Chemicals As They Ink Deal With China
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The Commission annually assesses progress in implementation of the Small Business Act (SBA)[1] at national level. This memo describes the results of the assessment as illustrated by country specific SBA factsheets[2], composed on the basis of a wide range of success indicators and national policy developments and grouped according to the SBA's ten policy dimensions. These policy dimensions are: (1) Entrepreneurship, (2) Second chance, (3) Think Small First, (4) Responsive Administration, (5) State aid and Public procurement, (6) Access to finance, (7) Single market, (8) Skills and innovations, (9) Environment, and (10) Internationalization. The SBA factsheets cover the 27 EU Member States, as well as Albania, Croatia, FYROM, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey.
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My favorite moment on "Saturday Night Live" was Paul Shaffer's impersonation of Don Kirshner, the helmet-haired, hyper-tanned record executive whose own syndicated rock concert often followed "SNL" on local NBC affiliates. In April 1978, Shaffer, playing Kirshner, introduced The Blues Brothers for the first time. "No longer an authentic blues act", he said, The Blues Brothers had become "a viable commercial product."
Even then, Kirshner was an anachronism. It was already clear that the difference between authentic and commercial was the industrial heft required to make and move goods whose appeal was no less manufactured than the goods themselves. Commercial music and commercial broadcasting were two gears in the same machine: the business of stimulating and filling appetites for large quantities of music in the smallest possible varieties. "Saturday Night Live" was part of that machine as well. What else was on TV at that hour? Or ever?
Radio was hardly any better. Even the largest cities had fewer than a couple dozen signals that didn't fade within a few exits of downtown. For music stations, you could usually count the choices on one hand. Every one of those few stations tried to attract the largest numbers of listeners with the smallest varieties of tastes, so they could sell those numbers at top dollar to advertisers. The result was demand as homogeneous as supply, plus the ironic notion that the narrowest tastes comprised the broadest markets.
Also ironic was the belief that listeners comprised markets in any real sense. By the economics of commercial radio, listeners were the product, not programming. Stations and networks sold time to advertisers, not programming to listeners. Music and other programming was just bait. What listeners really wanted meant approximately nothing, which is what they paid for the goods. After all, they were consumers, not customers.
So can we blame them when they give music to each other at the same price?
Well sure. That's what the record industry has been doing by attacking Napster and wringing its hands over the "stealing" of copyrighted music that occurs when one music lover shares his or her MP3 collection with others over the Internet. They are joined by none other than our own leadership. Eric Raymond inveighs on behalf of artists' and record companies' right to distribute their property as they see fit, regardless of how easy it is for customers to share that property without anybody's consent. In a Linux Journal guest editorial, Eric writes, "The real point is that by 'sharing' without the artist's consent, you deprive him of the right to control and dispose of his work. The real question is this: are you going to support the artists, or steal away the few shreds of autonomy they might have left?"
Let's assume we answer "yes" to the first part of that question. The next question is, "Can we make a market where nothing is scarce and everybody can take what they want?"
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I'm looking for people to help connect me to more fans, because I believe fans will leave a tip based on the enjoyment and service I provide. I'm not scared of them getting a preview. It really is going to be a global village where a billion people have access to one artist and a billion people can leave a tip if they want to.
It's a radical democratization. Every artist has access to every fan and every fan has access to every artist, and the people who direct fans to those artists. People that give advice and technical value are the people we need. People crowding the distribution pipe and trying to ignore fans and artists have no value. This is a perfect system.
Is there a tip jar system out there already—or at least the beginnings of one?
Indeed, there is. We call it public broadcasting. Get past the noncommercial nature of the institutions that sell the service, and their often pathetic appeals for "support", and you see the model at work. In some cases it works better than the advertising model, for the simple and efficient reason that the broadcaster's consumers and customers are the same people—a market grace advertising-supported broadcasters have never enjoyed (and paid subscription media like the one you are reading now have enjoyed, thank you very much).
Case in point. San Francisco's KJAZ was the longest-running commercial jazz station in the country until a few years ago, when its owner fell into deep debt and had to unload the property, which had been making money—not much, but enough to stay profitable. The owner made an appeal, and listeners sent in well over a million dollars in donations: more in a few weeks than the station made in a year from advertising, and none of it tax-deductible. It wasn't enough (the owner needed many more millions) and the donors got their money back; but further proof of the market model came when one of the local noncommercial stations picked up the format full-time, and reportedly made more money selling programming to listeners than KJAZ ever did selling time to advertisers.
I would gladly pay to play or hear anything I love. Right now, I pay to listen to four public radio stations and one public TV station. I don't see my purchases as "donations", although I'm glad to claim the tax deduction. I see it as a tip jar system. And I would love to see some infrastructure built around it, so I could automatically make micropayments (or macropayments in a few special cases) for using artist-controlled material.
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