Category: Greece
14 March, 2013 (14:38) | Bankruptcy, Cambridge, Detroit, Elderly, Euro, Global markets, Greece, Humor, MEEs, Month in review, Public housing, Redevelopment, Rent control, Spain, Speculation |
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s Part 1 of this review on the localized issues covered in January brought us to the problem of one elderly mother and her daughter and son-in-law, an issue that is confronting China (and even more, Japan) at a scale far surpassing our needs here [...]
14 March, 2013 (14:34) | Bankruptcy, Cambridge, Detroit, Elderly, Euro, Global markets, Greece, Humor, MEEs, Month in review, Public housing, Redevelopment, Rent control, Spain, Speculation |
[Previous Months in Review available here: Dec 12, Nov 12, Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12] By:David A. Smith No interval is so gloomy as to be entirely without its lighter side, and for a New England Patriots fan despondent at the team’s elimination from the playoffs, [...]
6 February, 2013 (09:00) | Austerity, Economics, EU, Eurozone, Greece, Spain |
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] In Yesterday’s Part 1, we saw that Europe’s extremities – Spain, profiled in the Wall Street Journal (December 28, 2012) (red font), and Greece, written up in the Wall Street Journal (January 11, 2013) (blue font) – are dying a slow economic death from capital [...]
5 February, 2013 (12:30) | Austerity, Economics, Ecosystem, EU, Eurozone, Greece, Spain |
By:David A. Smith Illegal logging has surged in Greece as households suffering through three years of recession hoard wood to burn during cold winter days. Though the body’s metabolism is not conscious, our cellular automata are rational: frostbite, gangrene, and starvation kill our extremities first, and the body lets them die to preserve [...]
7 January, 2013 (16:29) | Capital markets, Economics, Euro, Global news, Greece, Sovereign bankruptcy, Speculation |
By:David A. Smith Frostbite and gangrene attack the extremities first, as the body sacrifices bits of itself to keep the core alive. That affliction is slowing withering the economy, sovereignty, and society of Europe’s southern members – Greece and Spain in particular – as they continue to pursue the impossible, of staying in the [...]