03 December 2016

November Intraday Price Averages for Gold and Silver - Pictures In an Exhibition


"Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many."

Publilius Syrus


“And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”

Dick Durbin, US Senator From Illinois


"And there is a kind of an 'ok guys, you're mad, how are you going to stop me' mentality at the top."

Robert Johnson, economist



Thomas Frank - What Happened, One More Time - Economic Devastation and Populist Backlash


"The American white-collar class just spent the year rallying around a super-competent professional (who really wasn’t all that competent) and either insulting or silencing everyone who didn’t accept their assessment. And then they lost. Maybe it’s time to consider whether there’s something about shrill self-righteousness, shouted from a position of high social status, that turns people away.

The even larger problem is that there is a kind of chronic complacency that has been rotting American liberalism for years, a hubris that tells Democrats they need do nothing different, they need deliver nothing really to anyone – except their friends on the Google jet and those nice people at Goldman.

The rest of us are treated as though we have nowhere else to go and no role to play except to vote enthusiastically on the grounds that these Democrats are the 'last thing standing' between us and the end of the world.

It is a liberalism of the rich, it has failed the middle class, and now it has failed on its own terms of electability. Enough with these comfortable Democrats and their cozy Washington system. Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue."

Thomas Frank




The Imperial Presidents From the Fall of the American Republic


“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”

Plutarch


"And I'll leave you with one set of numbers that I found today, which is just an absolute for this whole thing. In 2015, Wall Street Bonuses, not regular compensation, bonuses, seven years after they were bailed out with the public purse, totaled $29.4 billion dollars.

Total compensation paid to every single person in this country who makes minimum wage totaled $14 billion...

The era of neo-liberalism is over. The era of neo-nationalism has just begun."

Mark Blyth


“There may be thunder in Europe but it is in America the lightning will fall.”

Ambrose Bierce