Um país que evoluiu da oca e senzala ao abismo, barbárie e caos, sem ter experimentado a civilização
Monday, January 31, 2011
Índios Isolados Escolhem Entre a Selva Virgem e a Selva Vadia
Aquecimento Global ou Mudança Climática?
Estimates of lost world product due to climate change are moderate because the poor have so little to lose. More than a billion people, maybe 2 billion, are estimated to live on less than the equivalent of $2 per day. If a billion of those poorest people lost half their income, it would be an overwhelming tragedy, a true catastrophe, worse than all the earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, landslides, and fires of the past decade happening every year. But those billion people together would lose only $365 billion per year. That is less than 1 percent of world income! They have so little to begin with that what they can lose doesn’t amount to much of a statistic. But they can lose tragically.
Egito: De Onde Menos se Espera, Daí é que Não Sai Nada
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Banca e Bandidagem
This comes at a time when regulators are raising the amounts of equity the banks must hold, thus lowering their returns further. So by the slightly crazed logic of the system, the only way the banks can satisfy their shareholders is by actively seeking more risk – or, in other words, throwing their money away again.
The place they are most likely to do that – since it is where the immediate profits lie – is wherever the asset bubble is. Last time, it was developed world real estate. This time, Wyman reasonably suggests, it could be commodities and/or real estate in the emerging economies.
Behind this lies the glum premise that another banking bust is coming within the next few years – the only question being how individual banks can limit the damage. A group such as Wyman has an axe to grind here, since it aims to make money advising them accordingly. But it is interesting – and faintly disquieting – that it considers this a plausible scenario to present to its banking clients
Pré-Sal o Maior Engodo do Século
Islamismo, Barbárie, Crueldade e Lula
A presidente do Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, posicionou-se publicamente contra a prática do apedrejamento, que classificou de barbárie. Qual a expectativa que a senhora tem desse novo governo?
O que eu espero da presidente Dilma é que ela faca o que seu antecessor não fez: que condene a situação dos direitos humanos no Irã e se recuse a manter relações diplomáticas com um regime assassino como o de Ahmadinejad, a quem Lula chamava de “amigo”.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
A Universidade Federal de Viçosa
O Incomensurável Ridículo da Inteligência Francesa
Friday, January 28, 2011
A UnB é Caso de Polícia
Guerra de Quadrilhas: PMDB x PT
"Os petistas que plantaram isso sao os mesmos que atacam a imprensa e já foram vitmas de difamacoes”, escreveu, emendando, em tom de ameaça:
“É impressionante o instinto suicida desses caras. Quem não se lembra dos aloprados? Quem com ferro fere com ferro sera ferido” — escreveu, referindo-se ao escândalo em que petistas foram presos com mais de R$ 1,6 milhão em dinheiro vivo para comprar um dossiê forjado contra tucanos. Até hoje, cinco anos depois, a Polícia Federal não descobriu a origem do dinheiro.
Cunha afirmou ainda que os documentos que denunciam sua suposta ingerência em Furnas foram feitos por “aqueles que queriam fazer campanha com dossiês e felizmente não conseguiram”.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Os Vencedores do BNDES: O Caso de Eike Batista
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
A História dos Pubs Ingleses
O Obsceno Frei Betto
O ecocídio da Região Serrana fluminense tem culpados. O principal deles é o poder público, que jamais promoveu reforma agrária no Brasil. (...) Darwin ensinou que, na natureza, sobrevivem os mais aptos. E o sistema capitalista criou estruturas para promover a seleção social, de modo que os miseráveis encontrem a morte o quanto antes. É esse darwinismo social, que tanto favorece a acumulação de riqueza, que faz dos pobres vítimas do descaso do governo.
A Carne Moída do Taco Bell
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Picaretagem Come Solta na Assembléia Estadual do Texas
Favelização e Política
Karachi is Pakistan's largest city and its financial capital, providing the majority of the country's tax revenue and nearly a quarter of its GDP. It is a miniature Pakistan: every major regional ethnic group in the country is represented in substantial numbers. The city's politics are dominated by the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), a notionally secular party claiming to represent the largest "ethnic" group -- the Muhajirs, Urdu-speaking descendants of the refugees who left India during partition in 1947.
But the MQM is in relative decline: although Muhajirs make up almost 50 percent of Karachi's population, the party has no provincial population to draw from and is facing a steady influx of Pashtun workers, whose numbers have grown since 2002, when the fight against insurgents in the country's northwest first gained momentum and pushed millions of people south. The city's other major political parties have adopted the MQM model, propagating narratives of perceived inequality along ethnic lines. The Awami National Party (ANP), which claims to represent Karachi's estimated five million Pashtuns, is attempting to carve out an increasing share of power. It is allied with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), a Sindh-based party that rules at both the national and provincial levels but is a minor power in Karachi, where it effectively represents Sindhis and Balochis.
The MQM's unwillingness to accommodate a growing population of Pashtuns is at the root of what is beginning to be described as a "civil war" inside Karachi. In 2010, nearly 1,400 people -- almost as many as were killed in suicide bombings and terrorist attacks over the same period -- died in "target killings" of party workers and members of one or another ethnic group.
As Diversas Dimensões do Economista Acadêmico
O Desenvolvimento da Teoria Econômica desde 1940
Os Laranjais de Sarney
O Que é Pior o Socialismo Petista ou o Projeto Minas?
Mais Feliz que Pinto no Lixo
Vamos Fazer um Manifesto Contra o Trem Bala? O Exemplo dos Economistas Portugueses
Empalando um Jabazeiro
Monday, January 24, 2011
Pqp… O Inacreditável Projeto do Trem Mala
Vida Judaica na Diáspora
Orgulho de Ser Brasileiro
Ajoelhou, Tem Que Rezar
Sunday, January 23, 2011
O Franklin Martins Yankee é Demitido
Sources say Olbermann's agent went to NBC looking for a raise for Keith, claiming he was underpaid (compared to his counterparts) at $7 million per year.
NBC would not pay more money and made clear they felt he was "a loose cannon that could not be controlled." At that point, it was just a question of when.
Brain Drain ou Smashing Brain?
Por Que o Brasil é uma Merda Absoluta?
Sarney, o Rei Midas do Brasil, Onde Toca Vira Merda
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Universidade e Meritocracia
Friday, January 21, 2011
Finalmente a Verdade Triunfou! As Vagabundas Brasileiras não estão em Baixa no Exterior
A prostituta de luxo Nadia Macri contou num programa de TV italiano que foi convidada para um jantar na residência do primeiro-ministro italiano, Silvio Berlusconi, em Milão, na companhia dadançarina marroquina Ruby R. e de mais seis brasileiras, no dia 24 de abril de 2010.
O SB Pede Desculpas aos Moradores do Complexo do Alemão
UnB: O Complexo do Alemão das Universidades Brasileiras
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Finanças e Honestidade
Otários Relaxem e Gozem
Marta escolheu o SUV Veracruz, que custa, em sua versão top, cerca de R$ 140 mil. Também fechou a compra de dois sedan Azera. Completo, sai por volta de R$ 87 mil cada. As três unidades receberam blindagem – em torno R$ 50 mil por cada carro.
O Dólar, o Mau e o Feio
Mr Eichengreen does not think the dollar is about to be vanquished as sterling was. Rather, he foresees a “multipolar” system of international currencies. Reunification shifted Germany’s priorities from supporting America to binding itself more closely to Europe, resulting in the creation of the first significant competitor to the dollar, the euro. Mr Eichengreen could have devoted more attention to the strains that Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis have placed on the euro. His book is optimistic, noting that political rather than economic imperatives have always driven the euro. Mr Schmidt sold monetary integration to Germany’s sceptical central bank by invoking Auschwitz. Yet Mr Eichengreen’s recent writings betray a pessimism about the euro’s future that is not visible in his book.
And what of China? As was true of America and the dollar a century ago, China’s currency does not enjoy anywhere near the clout that could be expected from the size of the Chinese economy. As with Japan, China has discouraged internationalisation of its currency for fear that inflows of capital would lift its value and curb Chinese exports. It has learned, however, from Japan’s mistakes, and is gradually liberalising the use of its currency. But China is still much further behind than America was in 1914; it will be decades before the yuan rivals the dollar’s leadership.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Protógenes, Deputado, Delegado e Gênio das Finanças e do Mercado Imobiliário
A declaração de bens do candidato-delegado que agora assume como deputado é um atestado de sua habilidade no mundo dos negócios. Ali fica-se sabendo que Protógenes Queiroz guarda em casa R$ 284 mil em dinheiro e que tem pouco mais de R$ 10 mil numa conta na Suíça. Entre os sete imóveis que admite ser dono, três deles foram doados pela mesma pessoa, o delegado aposentado José Zelman. Outros dois, que ele usa como residência própria, não foram declarados ao TSE.
As Vagabas de Silvio Berlusconi
Estranho, não apareceu até agora uma vadia brazuca na lista… o que está acontecendo com o nosso enorme contingente de prostitutas na Itália? Estamos em crise!? Precisamos de uma linha de crédito do BNDES para financiar nossas exportações de vagabundas para a Itália?
Vaticano, o Complexo do Alemão do Cristianismo
México… Sinceramente, Dá Para Levar a Sério?
Como é que é, Banco Mundial Vai Liberar uma Grana?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Os Assassinatos do Mossad e a Ditadura Iraniana
Regardless of whether or not such executions are morally justifiable, Mossad murders have had unintended consequences. There's no better evidence for this than the chain of events which began with the attempt to kill deputy Hamas leader Khalid Mashal in the Jordanian capital in 1997. Mossad agents attacked Mashal in Amman with a neurotoxin, but were caught red-handed by the Jordanian police. As part of the agreement for the return of its agents, Israel had to both provide the Jordanian authorities with the antidote for the poison and release Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin from prison. Shortly after his liberation, Sheikh Yassin toured Arab countries collecting donations that he used to launch a wave of murderous assaults on Israel beginning in 2000 and continuing until he was killed by an Israeli helicopter gunship attack in 2004. In the meantime, the failed attempt on Mashal gave him so much prestige that he took over the leadership of Hamas in exile soon after Yassin's death, and was able to forge closer ties to Shiite Iran than the fundamentalist Sunni Yassin would have ever permitted.
Ocidente Versus Oriente
Timur Kuran critica o novo livro de Ian Morris, Why the West Rules, e corretamente remarca que:
By itself, of course, the lucky geography of the West and the resources it generated through global exploration cannot explain the explosive growth of modern times. Morris' index has the East ahead of the West until the eve of the Industrial Revolution. But for centuries, Europe had been building a new type of economic infrastructure, based on impersonal exchange and a commercial life dominated by large, durable, and structurally complex profit-making enterprises. Those are the developments that fueled Europe's global exploration in the first place and prepared the ground for the Industrial Revolution. They also set the stage for the West's colonial empires. In fact, the roots of the West's economic modernization stretch back to the beginning of the second millennium, when, according to Morris' development index, China under the Song dynasty led the world. It is then that Italian families in the West started forming private medieval "supercompanies," or firms that pooled the resources for dozens of investors over generations, to conduct finance and trade. These enterprises enabled private capital pooling and accumulation on an unprecedented scale.
As they grew, these supercompanies faced coordination, communication, and enforcement problems, which induced experimentation with ever more complex organizational structures and business techniques. By the sixteenth century, profit-making European enterprises were already using a corporate form of organization. Comparably complex private enterprises could be found nowhere else, not even in the rest of what Morris defines as the West. Thus, by the time Europe started benefiting from the resources of its colonies and its own conveniently located coal deposits, it already had the economic infrastructure necessary for mass production, industrialization, and mass transportation. Geographic advantages were not enough to propel Europe forward; the institutions invented in the West were necessary to exploit those advantages
Monday, January 17, 2011
Mais um Crime do WikiLeaks
Sunday, January 16, 2011
A Riqueza Potencial Refém da Burrice Oficial
Saturday, January 15, 2011
O Pior de Wall Street, A Boca de Fumo das Finanças
A Sub-Cultura do Gueto e a Pobreza
Friday, January 14, 2011
A Importância das Dotações Iniciais
Os Gastos Militares e os Cortes Orçamentários
"The Cold War is long over," he continued. "The wars of occupation are almost over and were complete failures -- Afghanistan and Iraq. The American empire is done. There are no real seriously armed enemies left in the world that can possibly justify an $800 billion national defense and security establishment, including Homeland Security."
Sobre Golpes de Estado: William Easterly Detona Paul Collier
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Eremildo, o Idiota, Fala do Arizona
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
O México é Aqui
Monday, January 10, 2011
O Terrorismo Anarquista
Regras Versus Discrição
Saturday, January 8, 2011
A Origem das Religiões
Teje Preso
Atenção, Selvagens! Vejam o que Acontece com Deputado Bandido na Civilização
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Como o FMI Funciona e Por Que os EUA Estão se Tornando uma República de Banana
Faculty Buyouts no Texas
A Imortal Estupidez do Espírito Francês
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Bus Good, Train Bad
Yet the government can mount a reasonable case in defence of the increases. It is not clear why the public should be heavily subsidising a mode of transport that accounts for a tiny minority of all travel: 8% of the total distance travelled in Britain during 2009, compared with 85% by cars and vans. The relatively few who use railways often are disproportionately well-off: three-fifths of the traffic is concentrated in the wealthy commuting counties of the south-east.
In any case, the steady increase in the cost of rail travel over the past 30 years (trains are now around 50% more expensive in real terms than in 1980) has not stopped passenger numbers growing to their highest level since the end of the second world war. Many rail firms enjoy a virtually captive market: trains are very good at moving commuters into and out of large cities; congestion on the roads means that many people have no real alternative. Passengers might grumble about the new fares, but most will pay up nonetheless.