Thursday, September 05, 2013

Smooth...And By the Numbers 4: Christmas in July, Snowballs in Hell

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"Hold on baby" --Freddie Scott 1.  T his past July, the EU parliament voted to repeal the law capping bonuses and other payouts...
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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Smooth...And By the Numbers 3

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[ Again, all figures from, or derived from US Census Bureau's Quarterly Financial Report and the Bureau's Annual Survey of Manufactu...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Smooth...And By the Numbers 2

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1. Y ou can tell how bad things are by what registers as good news.  So just the other day (14 August), we get this bit of good news from th...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Interlude: Radio Nowhere

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It all, and mall, makes me wonder.  I feel it myself, this urge, to put every thing in its place, in a row like ducks, assigning ordinal nu...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Smooth.....And By The Numbers, Part 1

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1.  W hen Marx speaks of "monopoly," he is speaking of the monopoly of capital, the monopoly by capital of the means of production...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Full Disclosure, Self-Criticism (from a confidential source)

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From a message to a friend: To be honest, I'm not all that happy with "Overproduction, Overcapitalization 2. " The point I...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Overproduction, Overcapitalization 2

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1. Slip The journals of the bourgeoisie--digital, analog, virtual, print--have spewed tons of ink and blizzards of one and zeros--marveli...