When the entangled narrative is based on the Bible, the problem is the Bible.
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And then Paul Jorion created a Theory of Prices
Original Post : And then Paul Jorion created a Theory of Prices.
It’s the ‘rentrée littéraire’ in France. Among […]
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Kerviel’s trial in France: the question no one is asking…
An English translation of Kerviel: la question que personne ne pose posted on my French blog on June 21st. Many thanks to E-blogs for the translation.
What have we learnt so far from Jérôme Kerviel’s trial about the big questions? Do his superiors know more they pretend about the transactions he was […]
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Le Monde – Économie, Monday 8 – Tuesday 9 March 2010
Here an English translation of La machine infernale, my monthly column for March in Le Monde – Économie.
A DEVILISH DEVICE
Only five years ago, we were led to believe that the advertised model of the economic and financial apparatus represented a system that was finally mature: stable because thoroughly predisposed to self-regulate […]
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Capitalism (I) – The Veins of the Future
An English translation of Le capitalisme (I) – Les nervures de l’avenir posted on my French blog on March 2nd.
In Reason in History (1837), a posthumous work composed from lecture notes, Hegel observes that “ … what experience and history teach is that peoples and governments have never yet learned from history, let […]
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The House is on Fire!
An English translation of Feu en la demeure !, posted on my French blog on February 25.
Ladies and gentlemen of the European regulatory authorities, I am today turning to you: the house is on fire!
Demands that Greece lowers its civil servants’ wages will not save her. Your prodding Greece to tackle tax […]
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France 24, « Le Débat / The Debate », Wednesday February 3d, from 7:10 PM to 7:50 PM
We will ponder: “Might the financial crisis be followed by national crises?”
Alessandro Giraudo – Chief Economist, Tradition Viel (in the studio like myself)
Ondine Smulders – The Economist (calling in from Athens)
A (to be determined) Reuters Breakingviews’ journalist (calling in from London)Podcasts :
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Polar Bear Solidarity
Conceptual artist Little Shiva who helped me design Santa Crisis last year informs me she went to Copenhaguen in her capacity of a polar bear.
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August 4th, 1789
Cityislander’s imaginative translation of “La nuit du 4 août” at the French end of this blog. Many thanks to him!
Exactly 220 years ago (the French Revolution), on the night of August 4th, 1789, the question certainly was not about systemic risk. Yet, on that very night, an event of systemic magnitude occurred: […]
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Why we need to find something else
A reader of my French blog has taken the trouble of translating my most recent Friday video in English. Many thanks to him!
NEWS is conveyed by letter, word or mouth
and comes to us from North, East, West and South” (Witt’s Recreations). . . but mostly from the Paul Jorion blog […]
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