Archive for April, 2005

U.S. Currency wonkery

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Nouriel Roubini of the Stern School of Business at NYU, and Brad Setser at University College, Oxford, have co-authored a paper on the possible unraveling of the Bretton Woods 2 system, and the consequent hard landing scenario for US currency.
A PDF copy of the report is online, and makes interesting reading, if you think currency [...]

Hump Of Hate: Canadian Immigration Policies

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

One of my fave leftie Canadian magazines, THIS, has a piece this month on how the Canadian government is essentially screwing over Hungarian Roma who are trying to get refugee status–and doing it primarily so Hungary can pretend that there is no internal problem for the Roma. (Not that Hungary is the only country that [...]

Where have I been?

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

It’s been a very busy week here at Le Château De La Folie. Nothing that would make a good story, though: lots of extra hours of work for me (and indeed, there are developments at work that I am not best pleased with; nothing serious, just annoying), and lots of parent stuff that needed doing [...]