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  • Controlling The Uncontrollable: Spain’s National Addiction To The Use Of “Dinero B”

    Well, before we go any further, I would like to make clear that what I am going to talk about in this post is not anything illegal, or even irregular (things like this must be going on in almost all Euro Area countries even as I write). Bending of the rules? Perhaps. Taking them to [...]
    Posted to Economics on 08-17-2010
    Filed under: A Fistful Of Euros, Culture, Economics: Country briefings, Economics: Currencies
  • Two random videos

    This video is a satire – I want to emphasize this: a satire — done by the great American comic newspaper, The Onion. (The first 15 seconds is an ad. Sorry, that’s how they pay for this stuff.) This video is an actual commercial that played on Greek televsion recently. (Scroll down for...
    Posted to Economics on 08-09-2010
    Filed under: A Fistful Of Euros, Culture, greece
  • Are the Rand times here?

    In 2006, the German architectural practice Gerkan, Marg & Partners (GMP) took a client to court. The client was the German national rail company, Deutsche Bahn. The architects argued that their design for the new central station in Berlin had been changed without their knowledge: Deutsche Bahn had...
    Posted to Economics on 08-08-2010
    Filed under: A Fistful Of Euros, Culture
  • Just What Is The Economist Up To In It’s Seeming Crusade Against Catalunya?

    Well, this is certainly not the first time I have had cause to complain about the quality of the journalism and economic reporting served up over at the Economist, and I’m damn sure it won’t be the last. But this latest example of shoddy (I would almost even go so far as to use [...]
    Posted to Economics on 08-02-2010
    Filed under: A Fistful Of Euros, Culture, Political issues, Economics: Country briefings, The European Union
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