Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Bubblology and the Australian Housing Market.
Under the wonderful heading
Our bubble's bigger than their bubble (free sign up required to view).
Steve Keen writes in the (Australian) Business Spectator
"The Australian housing bubble is categorically larger than the USA's, though in standard bubblology talk, the main reason that it is – that it was driven by far more than pure speculation on prices – is touted as one of the reasons that "Australia is different" and a crash won't happen here.
It’s the sort of youthful hope that keeps many investors sleeping soundly underneath the Southern Cross. But this ‘logic’ is a better fit for astrologers – those other chartists – than property market forecasters."
Our bubble's bigger than their bubble (free sign up required to view).
Steve Keen writes in the (Australian) Business Spectator
"The Australian housing bubble is categorically larger than the USA's, though in standard bubblology talk, the main reason that it is – that it was driven by far more than pure speculation on prices – is touted as one of the reasons that "Australia is different" and a crash won't happen here.
It’s the sort of youthful hope that keeps many investors sleeping soundly underneath the Southern Cross. But this ‘logic’ is a better fit for astrologers – those other chartists – than property market forecasters."
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The Gabrielle Giffords Shooting - A Quote
"Our gun laws are so weak that someone who couldn't get into the military, who was kicked out of school, and who used drugs walked into a gun store and was able to immediately buy a semiautomatic weapon."
Quote by Daniel Vice, senior attorney at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Taken from the Salon.com article
Weapon in rampage was banned under Clinton-era law
via ScribeFire
Saturday, January 8, 2011
WikiLeaks and The DOJ subpoenas
The US DOJ, in the the usual US subtle fashion, has demanded "....information 'about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009.'" - referring to Birgitta Jónsdóttir -- a former WikiLeaks volunteer and current member of the Icelandic Parliament.
The request "includes all mailing addresses and billing information known for the user, all connection records and session times, all IP addresses used to access Twitter, all known email accounts, as well as the 'means and source of payment,' including banking records and credit cards. It seeks all of that information for the period beginning November 1, 2009, through the present."
Frankly a ridiculous amount of information even if her Twitter profile shows 1,126 tweets. I mean, seriously how many times has she logged on to Twitter in a year? As to 'means and source of payment' - I wish I could make money out of my Twitter account.
From Salon.com
DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
American Accents: All You Ever Wanted to Know and Then Some
"NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH, like its British cousin, has many diverse dialects and sub-dialects. Did you know that residents of the San Francisco Bay area generally speak differently from other Californians? Had you heard that people from parts of New Orleans sound like New Yorkers, or that residents of North Carolina's outer banks can sound more like folks from Charleston, South Carolina than other southerners? All this information and more is available on Rick Aschmann's map of English dialects in North America."
From The Economist blog Gulliver
The article refers mainly to Rick Aschmann's rather excellant map called that has links to YouTube video examples
North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns
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