November 2009
24 posts
“Given the over-the-top reaction of creditors and the western media (including...”
– Willem Buiter
HOB - Openingstijden →
“Whenever a woman criticizes a man’s lust, aggression, shallowness or any other...”
– John Scott Lewinksi on Wired’s Underwire
Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From...
If a boy is aloof, stand-offish, ignores you or is just plain rude, it is because he is secretly in love with you — and you are the point of his existence.
Secrets are good — especially life-threatening ones.
It’s OK for a potential romantic interest to be dimwitted, violent and vengeful — as long as he has great abs.
If a boy tells you to stay away from him because he is dangerous and may...
“Wo stehen wir in Deutschland jetzt? Überspitzt formuliert, befindet sich das...”
– Inge Kloepfer, Denk ich an Deutschland: Nichts geht mehr
The Open Source, Embeddable FLV Player →
“The extraordinary assumptions of macroeconomic models have left the outside...”
– Paul De Grauwe: Top-down versus bottom-up macroeconomics
You Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance →
“The oft recited, “Our employees are our greatest asset” is pure Orwellian...”
– Yves Smith, naked capitalism
Vila Romana Verão 2010 →
“In the 1987 stockmarket crash, a large counterparty of the Chicago Merc had...”
– Yves Smith, The Fantasy of the Clearing House Magic Bullet
“When I sat down to write my account of the experience in 1989—Liar’s Poker, it...”
– Michael Lewis writing on Portfolio.com
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“If people were fonts, I would fall in love every day. Although I suspect most...”
– S. V.