Yeah, I think it's a very good piece, and it's very similar to my own judgment of events, but I was surprised at the way they structured it. _The Economist_ doesn't usually use such a dramatic structure, with the buildup and then the balance at the end. More often they use an essay style, in which the caveats and counterarguments are presented at the beginning.
-- Ed Huntress
Jeez. It's a simple political analysis, not an econometric matrix. 8-) (can't find my hat...)
-- Ed Huntress
BS "over my head I'm sure" NOT
JC
Frat boy ready to ship out or something like that.
Yes it works. Mart> Would someone with a minute to spare please try this URL and tell me if they
Thanks, Martin. Some day I'll figure out which of their articles I'm paying for. It seems like a lot of them are free.
-- Ed Huntress
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:28:58 -0500, the infamous "Ed Huntress" scrawled the following:
Yes, it comes up for me, and I'm not a subscriber.
Shrubby, the frat boy, indeed... The way the Economist views him is the same way I always have (and then some): with complete disdain. I'm surprised that they backed him in 2000. The article sent me to the dictionary twice.
(Note to Gunner: I know you wouldn't have liked this last paragraph but if you want to talk about it, you'll have to take it to email. After seeing your half-dozenth reply to trolls this morning, I finally had to plonk you, too. Life's too short. Why _do_ you waste your time on the homunculi? )
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Thanks.
He looked like an easygoing, slightly right-of-center caretaker before 2000. That's all many people thought we needed at the time -- me included. I agree that he struck me as a frat boy, but I was not comfortable with Al Gore, who I feared was just chewing at the bit, waiting to explode a '60s-style liberal program on us, after those years of being cooped up with Clinton and his right-of-center economics. And I hadn't paid attention to the "Project for the New American Century" enrollment. I thought they were just some fringe neocons we'd never heard of. Jeez, I'll never forgive myself for not checking that out.
Par, for _The Economist_. The Britishisms are fun. The punctuation keeps this old-time editor reaching for a blue pencil, reflexively, until I remember I'm reading a British magazine. We're both saddled with the punctuation handed to us by 18th-century typesetters, but they had smarter typesetters.
I see you've added the word "homunculi" to your lexicon. You should read _The Economist_ more. It's good for you. d8-)
-- Ed Huntress
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Ed,
The story is indeed "Squeezy Money".
If this gambit had been pulled off by some London financiers I am certain that the Economist would have shouted and lauded the perpetrators from the roof tops.
But for a bunch of lousy German engineers, in the auto business no less, to pull this off is indeed distasteful and should be verboten:-)) Imagine mere engineers stealing bread from London bankers.
As one commentator had it "turn around is fair play" or "couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people" or some such thing.
Wolfgang
Oh, yeah, that was a good story, one that I think was underreported in the general press in the US.
I was impressed. Who would have thought that Porsche had it in them to play a financial gamble like that, against far bigger players? As I said, it was a George Soros moment -- testicles as big as Montana.
-- Ed Huntress
I could see it. I'm a cyberspace idiot, running whatever Dell did with this machine coupla years ago. XP Pro, etc.
That's good. Thanks, Don. Some of the people to whom I sent the e-mail are cyberspace idiots, too -- like me, as well. d8-)
-- Ed Huntress
Somewhere in the house is a 4GB and 8GB thumbdrive. I bought the 8 when I lost the 4. I bought the 4 when I lost the 1. I found the one after I bought the 4, I found the 4 after I bought the 8. I guess it is time to buy a 16 so I can find the 8 and the 4.
I hope that is isn't a progression series ;)
I gotta look into using truecrypt for anything I want to keep private since these things are way to easy too lose or misplace.
Wes
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:51:30 -0500, the infamous "Ed Huntress" scrawled the following:
I kick myself for having turned down their offer of a free subscription years ago. It's -not- a cheap script.
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:50:17 -0500, the infamous "Ed Huntress" scrawled the following:
Yeah, "ageing" and "defence" got me twitchin', too.
I felt certain that you'd notice that, Ed.
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:26:22 -0500, the infamous Wes scrawled the following:
the 4 after
Invest in a keychain model. I bet you won't lose -that- one!
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Well, you know what I'm talking about, then. These neat little electronic devices have a way of getting lost.
-- Ed Huntress
That's good. Thanks, Don. Some of the people to whom I sent the e-mail are cyberspace idiots, too -- like me, as well. d8-)
-- Ed Huntress
Ed, you didn't send it to me, except on RCM. I saw it "2 x 4", or whatever the hams say. I'm surprised Iggy didn't weight in here. Reckon he's sick or somethin?.
Bob Swinney
I sent the e-mail to a couple of relatives and some friends who aren't on RCM, Bob. I figured anyone here who was interested would see the URL in my post.
There's nothing much new in that article; it's just one of the most thorough roundups I had seen. And _The Economist_ is considered fair by the people who know it, and no enemy of GWB, so that added some interest.
-- Ed Huntress
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