It is my Friday Lay Day blog and it is going to be relatively quick. There was an article in the Wall Street Journal (December 23, 2015) – Economists Say ‘Bah! Humbug!’ to Christmas Presents – that says a lot about how my profession struggles to appreciate reality in all its dimensions. Every year, it…
A blog lay day
A few years ago I decided that I would not write a blog on Fridays unless something big was happening. Instead I was using it as my notes for the development of our textbook, which you will pleased (or not) to know is nearing completion and should be published before year’s end. This year I have been using the Friday spot for on-going development of my Europe book, which is in the final stages of editing. So today I decided that I could use all my time for that latter task and the product of that editing is not of ‘blog interest’. Therefore, a blog lay day. Although I have been studying all the documents surrounding the Argentinean debt saga, which would have made a nice story today. The Argies have the vultures licked and I hope they know that!
Just in case curiosity got the better of you and you clicked the link to more content, why not enjoy Max Richter from his 2004 record The Blue Notebooks, which is classical meeting ambient. Or just plain beautiful.
Regular transmission back Monday.
Saturday Quiz
The Saturday Quiz will be back again tomorrow. It will be of an appropriate order of difficulty (-:
That is enough for today!
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On the nature of daylight … very nice; thanks Bill!
I hope you’re right about the vultures. So as I understand it the ruling of the court in the US is that Argentina has to pay out everyone in full or nothing to anyone.
So they sit tight and pay out no-one? Is that right?