The Melancholic Greed

Another one bites da dust

2011-12-14T10:31:00.002Z

When Hungary’s former central bank governor was buying a house two months before Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed and the country sought an emergency bailout, he received an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Peter Akos Bod, now an economics professor at Corvinus University in Budapest, was given a choice of mortgages by his bank. The 60 year-old could select a loan in Hungary’s currency, the forint, at 13 percent interest, or one in Swiss francs at less than 6 percent. After crunching the numbers on a spreadsheet, he picked the cheaper franc loan.
“It was rational,” he said of his 2008 decision in an interview in the Hungarian capital. “I put it into a model.”
Three years later, Bod and about one million compatriots who took mortgages in francs are faced with a debt pile that has swelled to 4.9 trillion forint ($22 billion).

we'll have another summit of non elected people to solve it

2011-12-07T08:35:00.002Z

and the sheep will comply as they always do....

opportunities are everywhere ...

2011-04-11T18:16:00.002+01:00

Adaptive mechanisms

2010-10-03T18:01:00.002+01:00

loss of job for life.... get coached into optimism....

no questions asked

2008-12-19T22:06:00.000Z

to good to be true...

let's just wait

2008-11-16T10:20:00.002Z

to see what happens to GM and wi'll see about free trade ..........

Flash Gordon?

2008-10-14T18:33:00.002+01:00

these here three stooges.... had to follow Gordon .........

and Brown maybe got the tide changing for his corner...

the bravery of being out of range

2008-07-12T19:42:00.000+01:00

This is a Lisbon Poster....

2008-06-18T16:45:00.002+01:00

I suppose there are others in other countries wit a similar slightly xenophobic message....

It is a view of the world sponsored by a large corporation that raise serious ethical problems.....

no shit?

2008-04-30T13:39:00.001+01:00

rapidly?.... what confidence?

Free Tibet

2008-03-23T21:35:00.004Z

Arti & Mestieri

2008-03-11T15:41:00.003Z

we're not barbarians...

2008-03-06T21:56:00.001Z

we simply went too far?....

Tangerine

2008-02-27T12:30:00.001Z

We have to learn with and from our betters

2008-02-24T09:27:00.002Z

Hobbes revisited .... "amateur psychoanalysis...".... more moral beacons ...

a breach

2008-02-19T22:10:00.000Z

in the European construction...

We could start

2008-02-14T18:56:00.001Z

by having a reasonable and sound business model that does not start by delusional assumptions...

a geography

2008-02-08T18:29:00.000Z

for a recession...

Wisdom

2008-02-03T21:25:00.001Z

I am telling my kids to study maths

2008-01-28T21:46:00.000Z

apparently there could be a correlation between having good grades at math and being able to make an honorable and decent living ..... but again ....maybe I am fooling my kids ....they do not need to study math after all....

transformer

2008-01-27T19:06:00.000Z

now that's what one can call

2008-01-24T16:05:00.000Z

clarity........

the giant clitoris

2008-01-23T11:25:00.000Z

Desperately Seeking Stimulus

every year's ritual

2008-01-17T09:57:00.000Z

gone to the dogs this time.... ... bitter disappointment or unrealistic times? why would these people feed the expectation of having something to stagger and stun every year? this competition mode is paranoiac......

better be prepared....

2008-01-10T15:42:00.000Z

"vacas flacas" are coming....

so...what else is new?

2008-01-08T16:17:00.000Z

is there any surprise in this behavior?....I fail to see the flaw.....

Inspired leadership

2008-01-01T21:31:00.000Z

just a story

2007-12-29T21:15:00.000Z

behind the bike...

there we go

2007-12-26T09:34:00.000Z

moving faster to the bottom......the average will not even be the latvian wage .... we will go further down....

Cerberus

2007-12-21T22:53:00.001Z

"Technically, no. Operationally, yes. The only thing that keeps us from going into bankruptcy is the $10 billion investors entrusted us with."

go west

2007-12-19T17:52:00.000Z

no wonder homeland security is crucial.... envy is high this season..... even if it is xmas and the feeling was supposed to be of a different kind....even if one wonders how much embellishment is going around........

scavengers

2007-12-15T22:05:00.000Z

no limit to good businesses...

Indoor Games

2007-12-13T21:37:00.000Z

the chines have forced their hand

2007-12-08T17:58:00.001Z

and don't let the past obscure the future....

Merkel?

2007-12-03T20:40:00.000Z

I thought it was someone from the far left......... it is indeed obscene....

saving Africa

2007-11-30T09:41:00.000Z

if you will ...so to speak....

reason and rationality

2007-11-28T22:01:00.000Z

what if we placed a baboon instead? would 70 million be enough? would profits decay?...one day the current inequality growth is going to backlash ....

Ah! the new frontier

2007-11-26T11:29:00.000Z

go east my son....

waiting for news

2007-11-24T17:48:00.000Z

but I got a comfortable chair........

karn evil

2007-11-23T16:53:00.000Z

designing the future

2007-11-21T22:17:00.000Z

recovering the tradition in the ultimate retro hi-tech guitar....

worthless...

2007-11-19T04:26:00.000Z

piece of paper....here we go again...

ah! the settlement...

2007-11-14T14:41:00.000Z

after behaving like cowards a few bucks to cleanse the conscience...

Bottom line

2007-11-12T21:25:00.000Z

Pizzo

2007-11-11T11:48:00.000Z

what if we decide to free ourselves? god forbids....imagine...

Major Tom

2007-11-10T14:22:00.001Z

(re)calling all products....

larger than previously dreamed....in nightmares

2007-11-08T22:41:00.000Z

1.3 billion..... murkier by the hour...dodgy....ahhhhh new semantics in the management realm....

the spectacle of defeat...

2007-11-05T09:17:00.000Z

the solid sound analysis of what went wrong......one wonders why it was not applied before the fall...

no referendum anywhere....

2007-11-04T17:55:00.000Z

but a clear voice..... mumbled perhaps...

beauty

2007-11-02T14:03:00.001Z

absolutely

2007-10-29T11:44:00.000Z

proud? maybe not........but after swallow the first frog the following go unnoticed....

Cosmic noise

2007-10-27T14:55:00.001+01:00

soon

2007-10-25T13:44:00.000+01:00

this will be privatized........we cant have people going around giving hugs for free when Betchel might charge a few bucks for them...

yet another story

2007-10-24T15:36:00.000+01:00

of pedagogic interest about corporate honesty.... Mr. Ken Lay has left many good followers

totally unexpected

2007-10-22T09:58:00.000+01:00

now...who would guess that this would happen?....

Stand up

2007-10-21T14:35:00.000+01:00

Call a wizzard

2007-10-18T18:14:00.000+01:00

Let's see who's on call today...Sirius? Voldemort?

in peace

2007-10-18T16:09:00.001+01:00

Time gone

2007-10-17T14:28:00.001+01:00

This might be it...

2007-10-17T12:23:00.000+01:00

you can always make some good money be a snitch ...it is a wonderful career ...meet the right people be one of the few....

One of the good things

2007-10-15T21:34:00.000+01:00

about playing in the stock market is that every now and then we find ethics ...true ethics ........holding a position in a government and at the same time possessing some minor shares in a company that might just might be slightly valuated ..... isn't it nice?

Upholding values

2007-10-15T11:43:00.000+01:00

aahh.......soon we'll have a new presidency filled of ethical values...a more melancholic one...