Monthly Archives: April 2013
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The Financialisation of H₂0: The Final Frontier of Bankster Capitalism
1430/04/2013 by Don Quijones
First Posted in January 2013. A little-known US investment fund called Waterfund LLC recently announced that it had signed an agreement …
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RGBS’s Film of the Week: La Haine
228/04/2013 by Don Quijones
Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine exploded onto the screen like a cluster bomb in 1995, single-handedly launching Vincent Cassel’s rise to …
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Blackjack in Atlantic City (Part 3)
Leave a comment28/04/2013 by Don Quijones
A Personal Account by Marcus Peyrera. It’s still cold but I’m not complaining. I’ve had more arduous journeys to a …
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Spain Loses Faith, But Rediscovers Reality
727/04/2013 by Don Quijones
The reputation of the economics profession was dealt a heavy blow this week when it was discovered that much of …
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An Ode to the World’s Non-People
126/04/2013 by Don Quijones
With economies across the globe slow-mo collapsing in domino-like fashion and hot wars mushrooming across the Middle-East and Africa, the …
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Fresh From the Archives: 21st Century Economics – A Dismal Science Indeed!
Leave a comment26/04/2013 by Don Quijones
“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, writer and historian. Since the …
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Life’s Too Short…
124/04/2013 by Don Quijones
If your life flashed before your eyes, would you be content with what you saw? Would it amount to much? …
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