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Timeless storytelling fills 'A Country Doctor's Notebook'
While Mikhail Bulgakov wrote the stories in "A Country Doctor's Notebook" circa 1925-'27, about a young doctor's practice and plight in rural Russia, they don't read outdated, musty or strange today. Instead, they evoke archetypal situations we experience in contemporary medical storytelling.
At times, Bulgakov's young doctor in an isolated hamlet resembles the Russian equivalent of Hawkeye Pierce from "M*A*S*H," improvising under desperate conditions without backup. "Morphine," the tale of a doctor's prescription drug abuse, echoes the plight of the title character of "House," only with a grimmer fate. »Read Full Article
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The Rock Sports Complex, 7900 W. Crystal Ridge Dr. in Franklin, will host the first annual "Ruckus @ The Rock" from 10 a.m. to midnight March 9. The event line-up includes The Cardboard Classic cardboard sled race, pond skimming, Glow Snow Tubing, and two separate ski/snowboard competitions. »Read Full Article
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Chain restaurants would be banned on the east end of North Avenue under a proposal introduced before Common Council members last week.
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A hilltop site once famous for brewing Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, was named one of the greenest neighborhoods in the world Tuesday.
The redevelopment project at the former Pabst Brewing Company known as The Brewery won the highest designation for sustainable development practices from the U.S. Green Building Council. It was one of three neighborhoods in the U.S. and five in the world to be granted the LEED Platinum designation. »Read Full Blog Post(6)
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WMCS-AM (1290), the station whose talk and music format has served the African American community for twenty years is changing formats, it was announced Tuesday.
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Big Banks Busted Massively Manipulating Foreign Exchange, Precious Metals … And Every Other MarketSubmitted by George Washington on 11/12/2014 15:12 -0400
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How To Start A War, And Lose An EmpireSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 10/21/2014 22:30 -0400
"...the American scheme of world domination through military aggression and unlimited money-printing is failing before our eyes. The public has no interest in any more "boots on the ground," bombing campaigns do nothing to reign in militants that Americans themselves helped organize and equip, dollar hegemony is slipping away with each passing day, and the Federal Reserve is fresh out of magic bullets and faces a choice between crashing the stock market and crashing the bond market. In order to stop, or at least forestall this downward slide into financial/economic/political oblivion, the US must move quickly to undermine every competing economy in the world through whatever means it has left at its disposal, be it a bombing campaign, a revolution or a pandemic..."
Subprime Is Back With A VengeanceSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 09/16/2014 21:03 -0400
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Fact Or Fiction: US Treasury 'Agents' Go Undercover Posing As Russian BusinessmenSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 08/24/2014 15:08 -0400
This one is almost too sensational to be real. Almost. Jon Corzine (of MF Global) walks the streets a free man. Yet FinCEN is wasting taxpayer resources sending undercover agents to entrap some offshore casino, and they act as if they've infiltrated a major terrorist organization. Amid all the debt, graft, and incompetence that's so prevalent today in government, this is another sad testament to the direction that things are headed.
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In Bed with Wall StreetSubmitted by ilene on 05/04/2014 18:09 -0400
Capture, corruption, irreparable harm--and little hope for change.
Why India Will Soon Outpace ChinaSubmitted by Asia Confidential on 05/04/2014 11:00 -0400
India has long been an economic laggard to China but that may be about to change.
Russia To Create Own National Payment System In "Bid To Reduce Dependence On The West"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/27/2014 11:13 -0400
The more the West attempts to "isolate" Russia and pushes it away from its "core values" and of course the US Dollar, the more Russia will seek the safety of a non-dollar based system. We have previously described how Putin has been scrambling to enmesh Russia in tight bilateral commodity-based trade with both China and India, and now it is Russia's turn to announce it would seek its own "national payment settlement system" following last week's surprising and unmandated service halts by both Visa and MasterCard, which as Vladimir Putin said earlier today, will be a "bid to reduce economic dependence on the West."
Puerto Rico – America's Version Of Greece?Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2014 19:00 -0400
The global crisis that began in 2007/8 has unmasked many unsustainable economic dispositions. Unfortunately, the proper conclusions have still not been arrived at, as evidenced by the fact that the same old Keynesian recipes that have failed over and over again are being implemented on an even grander scale. One must not be misled by the claims of 'austerity' being imposed, as this has evidently little bearing on government spending as such, but is rather an attempt to squeeze more blood out of an already shriveled turnip, namely what remains of the private sector. Puerto Rico seems – at least so far – not any different in that respect.
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There is no point in trying to avert or prevent bubbles caused by monetary pumping by regulatory means. If one avenue for bubble formation is cut off, the newly created money will simply flow into another area. In fact, new bubbles almost always become concentrated in new sectors. If there were a genuine desire to keep the formation of bubbles in check, adopting sound money would be a sine qua non precondition. However, no-one who has any say in today's system has a desire to adopt sound money and give up on the failed centrally planned monetary system in favor of a genuine free market system. Our guess is that the booms and busts the current system inevitably produces will simply continue to grow larger and larger until there comes a denouement that can no longer be 'fixed'.
JP Morgan Pays $2 Billion to Avoid Prosecution for Its Involvement In Madoff Ponzi SchemeSubmitted by George Washington on 01/07/2014 16:11 -0400
RBS Pays $600 Million for Manpulating Interest Rates … But Big Banks Are Manipulating EVERY Market to the Tune of Trillions of Dollars
Goldman Vs Gazpromia: Russian Sovereign Risk Downgraded By Goldman SachsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2013 12:09 -0400
When it comes to key players in a global fungible monetary system, a far more important decision-maker than the US government is the FDIC-insured hedge fund that controls all central banks: Goldman Sachs. Which is why it is certainly notable that moments ago none other than Goldman effectively downgraded Russia's sovereign risk by announcing it is "shifting from constructive to neutral view on Russian sovereign risk." With the legacy rating agencies now largely moot and irrelevant, what the big banks say suddenly has so much more import. But when the biggest - and most connected - bank of them all, outright lobs a very loud shot across the Gazpromia Russian bow, even Putin listens.
Fear and Trembling In Muni LandSubmitted by testosteronepit on 12/16/2013 13:49 -0400
Malodorous taper emanations and bankruptcies are a toxic mix for munis
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There are only a few UK and U.S. banks on the list of global safe banks. This should give pause for thought. Notice that many of the safest banks in the world are in Switzerland and Germany.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- Richmond County deputies are investigating a drive-by shooting that injured one person on Virginia Road at Wheeles Road around 7:30 p.m.
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A woman delivering pizza in the area shortly after the shooting, identified the victim and his companion as the people that robbed her several days ago. Deputies are still investigating that accusation at this time.
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OU, Tulsa men qualify for NCAA golf tournament; OSU's streak ends
NORMAN — While the men's golf teams at Oklahoma and Tulsa qualified for the NCAA Championship, Oklahoma State's amazing tournament run is over.
The Cowboys had qualified for 65 consecutive NCAA tournaments, dating back to the program's start in 1947. But OSU finished eighth at the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Regional. The top five teams in each regional advanced to the NCAA Championship.
OSU shot a final-round 290 to finish at 11-over 863, 14 shots behind fifth-place TCU. USC won the regional at 11-under 841.
OSU's Patrick Winther tied for seventh in the regional's individual race at 5-under 208 after a final round 72.
OU earned its NCAA berth Saturday by beating Georgia Tech by 12 strokes, good enough for fifth place in a regional tournament at Norman. It's the second consecutive championship appearance for the Sooners and 33rd overall.
OU's Michael Gellerman shot a 1-under 71 to capture fifth place.
Washington took team honors at the regional with a three-round 860 and was followed by Texas. Florida State and Illinois shared third place.
In a regional at Greensboro, N.C., Tulsa also finished in fifth place on Saturday. Tulsa is making its 10th trip to the NCAA Championship and first since 2007. Tulsa shot a final round 288 to close out the 54-hole tournament with an 878 total.
Tulsa's John Young Kim finished the tournament in seventh place with a 54-hole total of one-over par 217.
The Sooners and Golden Hurricane will travel to the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., for the championship, which will be played from May 29 through June 3.


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I have seen this a couple of times and apparently it won't go away till I tell you about it. Some lady bought a product that was labeled correctly but put in the wrong place. It was a Princess Wand with a scary picture behind the label.
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When you throw in a mop of sorts and a good dancing song, all bets are off...
It's Friday, and we're all about ready to check out at this point, but there's nothing quite like a fresh cup of insanity to start off your day, or in the case of some Adult Swim viewers, keep you awake for days to come. Find out for yourself with the new 'Too Many Cooks' video making the rounds, a clever riff on the golden-age sitcom, with nothing amiss about it at all! Or is there? No, there isn't. But maybe there is!
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This "Rapper" takes a plunge during a recent photo shoot in Florida. Standing on the seawall busy weighing a buck-o-five was not a good idea. High winds makes this artist "Presto Flo" do a real disappearing act.
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Every state has their share of ghost stories and creepy sightings. Texas has two such sightings that are unexplained to this day.


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Oh, No. 27 local bus, I study you day after day, week after week, yet I do not understand you. To me, you are the ultimate enigma. You are an elusive legend, renowned for your capricious nature. Many claim that you do not actually exist, that you are just a myth. Yet I have actually sighted you, 27, and I've tried to understand you.
I wait for you, silent, in an area you are known to frequent. West 36th Street. I'm patient at first, even optimistic that today will be the day you trust me enough to come to me freely and without hesitation. I'm careful to blend in to my surroundings so as not to startle you away. I attempt to appear casual as I smoke my morning cigarette and sip my coffee. I pretend to be unconcerned that you have not yet appeared. Yet, my eyes dart to Falls Road, then to Roland Avenue, back and forth, back and forth. Over time, I've learned that one can never predict from which direction you will approach.
You see, little by little, I begin to understand some of your basic habits. For instance, I see that you travel in packs. Yesterday morning, for instance, after waiting 55 minutes for just one of you to appear, 3 of you traveled down the road in a neat row. Also, you are difficult, if not impossible, to train. I push the yellow ribbon, my request is acknowledged with a sweet and cheerful "ding," yet you do not pull over at the next stop. Or even at the stop after that. You refuse to be domesticated in this way. I both resent and admire that proud spirit!
My hands begin to shake now. From cold? From fear that I will be fired for being late to work again? From revulsion for the filthy drunken man who just sat down on the bench so very, very close to me? I stand up, as casually as possible, for I don't want to startle either you or the drunk. You see, I suspect sometimes you hide in the shadows and wait for the perfect moment to approach. My eyes still dart back and forth, back and forth. Falls, Roland, Falls, Roland.
I see many beasts with markings similar to your own pass through, yet these are not the animals I hunt today. These creatures are migrating to Reisterstown Plaza. It is the southbound 27s I seek this morning. Yet observing others of your species pass by...2 of them, now 3, now 4...as I wait for just one of you, fills me with a seething frustration I can barely contain. My hands shake harder. The people around me mutter curses. I silently agree with their sentiments.
I listen for sounds that signal your approach. Squealing brakes? Yes, this might be you. My hopes soar, only to quickly plummet. Alas, it is the Odwalla delivery truck (I am, for a moment, distracted, wondering who actually drinks that). Wait, what was that screech? Is it? Could it be? No, it's just a UPS truck. My stomach is in knots. And I now have to pee.
People drive by and seem to stare at me. Hillies, hipsters, and hoodlum-wannabes alike seem to judge me lacking. They know I am unsuccessful in my quest to find you. They know I don't stand a chance against you. They know I will soon break. Their eyes impart their scorn and sympathy.
I realize now, finally, that you are too brutish for schedules, too untamed for timetables. No. 27, you drive me to despair.
Wait, what's that? There you are! Down by the 7-11 and quickly approaching! My cold and nervous fingers fumble for my MTA pass. You pull up for me and your brakes whine their displeasure. I offer you a greeting I believe is quite civil under the circumstances. After all you put me through, I still strive to befriend you. Yet you only grunt in reply.
You have gobbled up so many of my fellow No. 27 followers today that there are no more seats. Where I was freezing minutes earlier, I now sweat in your moist, fetid heat. I feel the bus-stop drunk pressed against me through the back of my coat as you shimmy and tumble down rutty Howard Street. My knees throb with every impact. My bladder throbs in tandem. As I endeavor to remain upright, my breasts keep bumping some stranger's head. She turns to stare at them. You rattle and shake. I fear you will literally fall apart. I focus on a greasy spot on a window and pretend I am invisible. Most of those around me pretend the same. You wound us daily with your indifference. Yet it is because of us that you exist.
I wonder how I could have been naďve enough to anticipate your arrival this morning with such optimism.
We finally part ways and I run as quickly as I can away from you (the morning cigarette does not help with this). It is too late; I am already late for work. I arrive done-in, dazed, and in defeat.
Indeed, you are an unpredictable and willful beast. You've broken my spirit, stripped me of my dignity. You leave me helpless, humiliated, humble.
I give up. I'm limping away. You win, No. 27 local.
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Haaretz probe: Dubai assassins' passport photos were doctored
Haaretz probe finds Dubai assassins' passport photos were doctored, distorting identification.
The passport photographs of the agents who assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai were doctored so the agents would not be identified, a Haaretz probe discovered Friday.
The discovery casts doubt on claims that the espionage agency that carried out last month's hit on the senior Hamas operative committed grave errors.
Various features of the people in the photographs, such as eye color or the line of a lip, were changed - slightly enough so as not arouse suspicion at passport control, but still enough that the real agent could not be recognized.
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According to the Dubai police, only a few of the agents were caught on security cameras without their disguises. However, it had been assumed until now that publication of the photos of the 26 agents had blown their cover. Now it appears that the Dubai police still do not have viable information about their real appearance.
Mabhouh was known for his disguises and for using various passports to run weapons into the Gaza Strip, according to an associate who lived in Gaza and later spent two years abroad with Mabhouh. The associate told Reuters on Thursday that Mabhouh had several passports, all from Arab countries, and had even undergone plastic surgery recently to narrow his nose.
The associate also said that Mabhouh never revealed his plans to anyone, not even his wife. He said Mabhouh always ordered his plane tickets by himself, over the web or through a travel agent, and had not visited Iran in the past three years.
Mabhouh's brother Fayek also told Haaretz that Mabhouh was very cautious, and on his last trip, he did not even tell his family where he was going. But a senior Hamas leader has intimated that Mabhouh was not careful enough. Fayek said his brother flew to Dubai on a Palestinian passport, but under an assumed name.
Mabhouh's killing has led to a wave of recriminations between Fatah and Hamas and between Hamas and Israel. According to the Dubai police, a senior Hamas official gave Israel information about Mabhouh's flight. Some in Hamas have also criticized the fact that Mabhouh was not guarded.
Meanwhile, the newspaper The Australian reported on Thursday that Australian authorities had previously warned Israeli intelligence not to use doctored Australian passports in its clandestine activities around the world.
The Australian foreign minister at the time, Alexander Downer, confirmed to The Australian that his government had warned Israel on at least one occasion not to issue fake Australian passports to its intelligence operatives. And a diplomatic official in Canberra told The Australian that back in the 1990s, Australia also sought assurances from Israel that it would not misuse Australian passports.
On Wednesday, the Dubai police announced that they had identified 15 more people suspected of involvement in Mabhouh's killing, of whom three used forged Australian passports. Haaretz found that at least 10 of the 15 new suspects were carrying passports with the names of Israeli citizens who are also citizens of another country.
In response to the report from Dubai on the forged Australian passports, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith held a clarification meeting Thursday morning with Israel's ambassador to Canberra, Yuval Rotem. Smith said the Australian government condemned the use of Australian passports. He also informed Rotem that the Australian federal police had opened an investigation and that he expected Israel's full and transparent cooperation.
At this point, Smith added, there is no evidence that the three Australians whose names were used on the passports, Adam Marcus Korman, Joshua Daniel Bruce and Nicole Sandra McCabe, were implicated in the affair in any way.


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If You Thought The European Crisis Was Over...
Via Mint Partners' Bill Blain,
Today's big event was Italy's 10% auction. Buyers can't ignore yield, and I suspect many were "encouraged" to participate. But a decent Italy auction doesn't change the brutal facts. Electoral fall-out blankets the Euro battlefield, but it was decisions made years ago that have brought us to this blasted heath. Markets are caught in...
On one side you have the disbelief on the Italy election (although why markets are surprised we cannot fathom) and all that entails about rising uncertainty on the Euro. On the other is the fact buyers need to invest. In the short-term expect the pressure to invest to win out – Italian and peripheral yields will consolidate and even tighten again. Risk off will quickly become Risk-on!
From there it becomes a debate about whether the Italy election was just another minor stumble that can be glossed over, or is it part of a more significant fundamental shift? I suspect market fears, uncertainty, and the global fundamentals will likely see the Euro crisis reveal itself again in four distinct ways in coming months:
- The Politics of Austerity
- Banks
- Sovereigns
- Renewed Unwind Fears
Austerity has failed: Listen to the language Bersani is using in Italy: trying to put together an administration based on reform and "easing of austerity". 5-Star leader Grillo has made clear his anti-austerity convictions. Euro Elites must be having conniptions.
Austerity is the very core of the Euro Elites' belief structure and anything less is heresy. But, across Europe from Hollande (in France) to Athens the political patience with austerity, and its increasingly apparent failure, is in the air. Austerity has done nothing to improve sovereign finances (actually increasing the imbalances in most cases!), and destroying economies with the resulting high social costs. Self-inflicted recession has not worked. There is no point in clinging to a failed ideology of austerity. The Euro Elites won't accept that without a struggle.
So Europe needs a plan B – Growth… but a commitment to growth would require a much closer fiscal and monetary union akin to the United States of Europe to avoid moral hazard and free rider risk. It would also require yet another rejig of the ECB. There simply is not the bottom-up political appetite to support any of that. Sure, some of the Euro Elites would love to inflict top down "emergency/crisis" union, but it won't happen because it would immediately crash against national politics!
If you fancy an academic explanation of failed austerity try this: http://www.voxeu.org/article/panic-driven-austerity-eurozone-and-its-imp...
European Banks remain Rotten to the Core: If austerity has failed economies, it's singularly failed to address the banking crisis. The US has spent the last 5-years deleveraging and recapitalising its banking system, and that is now paying off with growth in personal and commercial lending, restoring housing markets and seeding growth.
What did Europe do? Debated banker salary caps and the self-immolation of the financial system through a transactions tax! The Elites singularly failed to address bank's previous fatboy lending practices – they remain essentially over-levered, over-regulated and dangerously exposed to European risk. Every policy response, like long term LTROs or even OMT, was a hasty panicked infusion of liquidity to keep the banks in pretend and extend mode. Draghi did a superb job keeping the illusion going.
But aside from that, all Europe has done to address the banking crisis at its core is make a series of promises about "save the Euro at all costs". Talk is cheap. And has done nothing to make Europe's bad banks safer. Instead, they became even more bloated and exposed to Euro risk!
Sovereigns remain in Crisis: The poor South is caught with the wrong currency – uncompetitive, unproductive and unable to deflate to compete. Even Ireland's status as the poster boy of austerity is bogus – economic growth is largely on the balance sheet of tax sheltering multinationals.
The results of austerity are all too obvious – rising unemployment, social tensions, and electoral dismissal. Although some of the crisis economies have done much to try to restructure and redirect their economies, in the teeth of the Austerity gale it's proved pretty much impossible. It takes years for economies to become as lethargic as the south has become, and it can't be turned around overnight.
Renewed Fears for the Euro: The core tenant of belief of the Euro – austerity is failing. There is no easy way to redirect the institutions of the Euro to create growth. The bloated Brussels bureaucracy would be a highly imperfect tool to sponsor European growth – although I am sure they will tell us otherwise.
The ECB's reluctant acceptance of its de-facto role of lender of last resort is heavily qualified by the need for countries to sign up to austerity prior to ECB OMT support – that is increasingly politically unacceptable in the wake of the Italy election. A new easier OMT will be required with all the national votes and treaty changes that will require.
If you thought the European crisis was over... it's probably only just beginning. Sure, we may not see bond yields immediately rack back up into the stratosphere, but a period of further political panic and change is coming! What's done cannot be undone..
And notice, yet again, I never mentioned Germany once in the above analysis.
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I didn't.
Austerity has failed
What austerity? This article sucks. Why do you post this shit?
Perhaps he was trying to point out the duality of man?
It's like when you know you're dieing but you just can't accept the cure.
... the Jungian thing, sir.
There will be no "austerity" anywhere (outside of higher taxes) it is largely a head fake.
Any attempts by "democracy" e.g. voting, markets or individual use of wealth to derail the plan will be resisted firmly and with great patience, if needed. The "people's" ability to stop the process (in Europe for sure) is transitory.
The goal is the political unification of Europe. Then they can count German ballots on one side and everybody else on the other. All hail democracy.
The austerity that causes 30% unemployment overall and 60% youth unemployment and at the same time drives GDP into the toilet, which then forces more austerity. Or maybe it's the austerity that causes individuals to burn their furniture and chop down trees in parks for heating purposes. Better yet, it could be the austerity that has people jumping to their death as the local authorities are pounding on the door to foreclose on the property. What do we make of the self-immolations in public squares?
Is that the shit you are referring to? Rube!
Indeed, there is a ZH word game on the concept of 'austerity' -
Two extremely DIFFERENT meanings
austerity (a) - lower gov't spending overall. This is NOT what is meant here, or in almost any article about Europe
austerity (b) - ravaging, life-destroying cuts in worker incomes, worker pensions, or minimal benefits for a decent life, while government debt is loaded up increased to pay interest to banks and banksters - THAT is the MEANING of 'austerity' as millions of Europeans know it and suffer it
And austerity (b) is the reason why Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo got so many votes in Italy
Tho it was actually Tyler himself who has been instigating this word game on ZH, pretending it is austerity (a) and not the life-destroying austerity (b)
Not to pick nits but the chess piece graphic on the story is actually showing Checkmate. Oh, wait...... I get it.
Yup, plenty of evidence that America is on the right track......not.
It's like watching a horror movie....you're screaming for them not to go in there....but it's exactly what they do.
To bad they did not spend all the time simply giving thier money to banks like the US did. Giving all our money, property, freedom and children to banks is now paying off in the fact that banks will lend some of our money back to us, at interest of course.
I would hope I don't need a /sarc but just in case
"If austerity has failed economies, it's singularly failed to address the banking crisis. The US has spent the last 5-years deleveraging and recapitalising its banking system, and that is now paying off with growth in personal and commercial lending, restoring housing markets and seeding growth."
Terrible article
chris cox, h paulson, mazzillo,timmy, hillary what does it matter?, sorry my memory becomes blurred with the creaps who have never come to justice, oh ya corzine.
So... lowering spending ("austerity") is not an option and the only other way to go is to "create growth" (translation - pump another bubble of malinvestment to get a few years of optimism and end up with stuff and services people don't want being produced be entire usless industries)?
If this anlysis was correct, than complete crash is a given. How will it go when these irreducible public programs that austerity tries to cut back get driven down to 0? What will happen when institutions that can only live with constant transfusions, but are absolutely essential, get just cut off at one day?
The analysis was crap, but your conclusion is spot on. A complete crash is a given. Period. It's simple mathematics, really. Your question... what will happen when SNAP gets cut off (or whatever they call it in europe)? DHS isn't buy billions of rounds of ammunition for shits and giggles (Europe implodes a few days before the US). Everything between now and then is just theater. Enjoy the show.
I agree that in order to "create growth" since 2008 governments created bubbles by malinvestment. The US has pumped $23 trillion of taxpayer money into the insolvent financial services industry and the result will be an even bigger crash when the current bubble pops. Having said that, inflicting austerity on those very same taxpayers is an economically illiterate and illogical proposition.
The 2008 financial crisis was the biggest financial crime in the 4.5 billion year history of the world. Governments throughout the western world socialized trillions upon trillions of private big bank debt. Now they demand ecoomic austerity from the victims. Tragic and utterly stupid!
OT: A timely escape for Carney after hectoring Canadians on household debt, while the economy was focussed on expanding credit with low interest rates:
The Tylers must get paid by the post.
Else, why this?
"If you thought the European crisis was over..."
...you are an idiot.
What's this crap doing on Zero Hedge.
Negative Reinforcement?
The graphic actually looks like a *checkmate* to me.
And this: There is no point in clinging to a failed ideology of austerity. The Euro Elites won't accept that without a struggle.
So, living within your means is a failed ideology now?
Since when is shrinking the size and scope of the state the battle cry of the Euro Elite?
"The US has spent the last 5-years deleveraging and recapitalising its banking system, and that is now paying off with growth in personal and commercial lending, restoring housing markets and seeding growth."
Total crap, for sure... but unless one understands the bigger picture, you could make this argument. Of course the "Curve" that we would need to return to is impossible... exponential curves are funny like that. But we are having a wile-e-coyote moment at the moment... his narrative for what's behind the wile-e-coyote moment would sound reasonable for most who are still trapped in their normalcy bias. His next article will read something like, "nobody saw that coming" or "if cooler heads would have prevailed in the sequester talks" - or some such red herring.
New home sales are up quite a bit actually...but by what means is another story:
Our current situation had its debut in 1913. All of the current economic mess can be traced back to that event.
Guess the Central banksters installed leader couldn't do his job and flood them with more printed Euros.
How's the idea of printed money fixing everything working out?
The real difficulty for Europe is that austerity IS the solution, but austerity in the EU becomes much more difficult when Central Banks across the globe are stomping on the accelerator. Austerity should mean declining home prices, declining wages, and declining prices - until they reach some equilibrium with reduced spending. But instead, the other Central Banks are forcing up food prices and commodities like oil - making austerity that much more painful for the EU.
Austerity in Europe means raising taxes but not cutting government spending, except the benefits of the sick and the poor (except for migrant groups who might otherwise create problems). For the rest the government gravy train just keeps riding on. So how can this have a positive effect on the economy?
lets compare our money printing to theirs and see who reachs the bottom first. We have printed or borrowed nearly $8 Trillion to make sure our bankers can still command top bonuses with little to no reduction in government. What will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Now that housing price are headed toward exceeding the last bust's prices. Crooks no matter where you turn. Remember the implosion of the world economy was lead by Lehman and Bear and the other leverage to the moon. Well we are more leveraged than ever with the full faith and credit of the USA!
Pretty much it in a nutshell.
The G20 meeting in Moscow in September is shaping up to be historic.
A Wile E Coyote meets ground type event.
The end of the begining,and the begining of the end.
The US "recapitalized" banks by expanding the Fed balance sheet and getting to the point of buying 80% of all issued Treasury debt. Because if it didn't, interest rates would rise and the "recapitalized" banks would all fail. So maybe the ECB could try buying 80% of issued Euro sovereign debt. Seems to work in the short run, right? And the hyperbolic discounting of the future continues...
The Euro crisis is over... when the Euro Union is over! ;-)
You have accurately summarized our circumstances by using by saying;
"On the other is the fact buyers need to invest"
This "need" is what is and has been driving everything. The need to make money from money rather than work or productive activities. There used to be a saying that a watermellon never tasted sweeter than one that was stolen. Today all wealth is not equal. That that is actually earned is of lower value than that which was stolen or derived from any other source other than one that would be perceived as work. Work is the chump's game. Work is for the loser who isn't smart enough to scam the system. Work is blue collar, low class and undesirable at any price. You can make a million dollars by digging gold from the earth, but you will never be equal to the guy who made a million by trading it to someone for paper. Class is all that is important and the farther you are removed from labor, the higher the class you are. The "need" for easy money is everything modern society is about.
And in closing, watch as the US Dollar climbs.
It never even started. So - keep that in mind;)
You can see the utter panic in European and US markets at the crisis in EU-land. All European and US markets are rallying higher and higher. In these days the markets are not only stranger than you imagine, they are stranger than you can imagine.
Over the last three or four decades we have been paying ourselves more than we earned. Our standard of living has been maintained by the FRBS. Now the banks have crashed we have made up for it by printing $3T.
Total US debt is $58T we are printing $85bn a month, how long can we keep on like this? Austerity is a dirty word but it is coming to all of us. To say that it does not work is ridiculous, there is no other long term option.


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This is the centennial year of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), or, as tonight's hour-long television documentary would have it, "Seattle's Forgotten World's Fair." But local historians are doing everything they can to discourage that cultural amnesia. There are at least two photo books out this year on the subject, one by HistoryLink's Alan J. Stein and Paula Becker, who are primary sources for this doc (narrated by Tom Skerrit, produced by John Forsen and Gayle Podrabsky).
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Risk of recurrent myocardial infarction with the concomitant use of clopidogrel and proton pump inhibitors
Article first published online: 19 OCT 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2010.04485.x
© 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Volume 33, Issue 1, pages 77–88, January 2011
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Valkhoff, V. E., 't Jong, G. W., Van Soest, E. M., Kuipers, E. J. and Sturkenboom, M. C. J. M. (2011), Risk of recurrent myocardial infarction with the concomitant use of clopidogrel and proton pump inhibitors. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 33: 77–88. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2010.04485.x
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- Issue published online: 5 DEC 2010
- Article first published online: 19 OCT 2010
- Publication data Submitted 16 July 2010 First decision 6 August 2010 Resubmitted 23 September 2010 Accepted 24 September 2010
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Background The association between myocardial infarction (MI) and co-administration of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and clopidogrel remains controversial.
Aim To quantify the association between concomitant use of PPIs and clopidogrel and occurrence of recurrent MI.
Methods We conducted a case–control study within a cohort of acute MI patients in PHARMO Record Linkage System (1999–2008). The cases were patients readmitted for MI. PPI exposure was categorized as current (3–1 days before MI), past (30–3 days before MI), or no use (>30 days before MI). We used conditional logistic regression analyses.
Results Among 23 655 patients hospitalized following MI, we identified 1247 patients readmitted for MI. Among clopidogrel users, current PPI use was associated with an increased risk of recurrent MI (OR: 1.62, 95% CI: 1.15–2.27) when compared with no PPI use, but not when compared with past PPI use (OR: 0.95, 95% CI: 0.38–2.41). Among clopidogrel non-users, current PPI use was associated with an increased risk of recurrent MI (OR: 1.38, 95% CI: 1.18–1.61) when compared with no PPI use.
Conclusions The apparent association between recurrent MI and use of PPIs with clopidogrel depends on the design, and is affected by confounding by indication. The association is not present when (un)measured confounding is addressed by design.


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The thunderous silence of a good deed can quiet even the most vocal rant of teenage critics. While the papers are filled with the misdeeds of teenagers, many of their positive actions go largely unnoticed. Hidden within the confines of a high school basketball game, a decision made by the student activities class at Placer High reminds us that high school sports can be a breeding ground for good behavior. The two masterminds of this idea were student body president Hannah Peterson and sports commissioner Jake Callahan. They wanted to encourage more Placer students to attend a mid-week game, and they wanted to politely remind people that the visiting team was an opponent and not an enemy. At the heart of their idea was a unique halftime activity. "We had a half-court shot contest which included not only Placer fans but the fans from visiting Foothill High," Peterson explained. "The winners would receive gift certificates from Taco Bell, Tango Frozen Yogurt, and Dutch Brothers Coffee." "By including the fans from Foothill High, we wanted to stop the 'head-butting' that so often happens at a high school sports event. We are all kids and students. We wanted the boring half time to come to an end. We wanted everyone in the gym to be laughing." Peterson, who has been accepted to UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara amongst other colleges, might consider a second career as a motivational speaker to organizations such as... oh… how about… our California politicians? At first, the Foothill fans were apprehensive to come out of the stands to participate. But several of the JV players came down to the court and then their friends began to follow. Soon, the court was filled with approximately 50 Placer and Foothill fans taking their turn at trying to make a half-court shot. "Soon everyone was laughing. The Foothill fans loved it, and I was having a blast watching them fire away," added Peterson. Peterson, Callahan, and the student activities class also learned another valuable lesson. They learned that to make something unusual happen, they would have to address the issue of money/revenue and work within the confines of the school's policies. Working with athletic director Mark Lee, they found out that the average student attendance for a midweek game was about 35-45 students. Armed with this information, Peterson proposed that the ASB purchase 50 tickets at $3 each to cover the cost of an average night's attendance, but that any student who showed up would be allowed in for free. That Wednesday night, versus an opponent who had no drawing power, 130 Placer students showed up for the game. Jonathan Adams, student activities director, was grateful for the turnout for another reason. "We want to see as many kids in a nice self-contained, safe environment as possible," Adams said. Tonight we succeeded." The Hillmen lost both games that night, but the students watching the game were the winners. One may recall that these two schools had an ugly brawl following the JV football game this past fall, so it made the few minutes the fans spent together on the court all that much more special. Or, as Thomas Wolfe stated in his novel, "The Bonfire of the Vanities," "Why can't we just all get along?"


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Anatomy: Barosaurus was huge and slow-moving. It had a long neck, small head, long, whip-like tail, and small brain. This diplodocid sauropod was about 66 to 88 feet (20-27 m) long, weighing roughly 44 tons (40000 kg). Its femur (thigh bone) was 8.2 ft (2.5 m) long - bigger than a human being. Barosaurus' primary defense against predators was its size.
Fossils: Barosaurus fossils have been found in western North America and East Africa.
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