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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/us-ambassador-picks-103242.html#ixzz2sfVEiGS1

The Ivy League ain't what it used to be. What it used to be was the preserve of the sons of WASP gents -- rather than a stepping stone for classless upstarts like Obama and his ilk. An affirmative action beneficiary, if ever there was one, and whose natural station in life would be that of a...

Exactly. They should go back to their Budweisers and pro wrestling. Mass democracy has been an abysmal failure. When gents were running the show there were standards. No Rahm Emmanuels, no US officials saying "F*** the EU," and so on.

That's my opinion. Obama himself is a ventriloquist's dummy who mouths the words on the teleprompter, then buggers off. He's utterly indifferent to policy, to incompetence, to sleaze and corruption.

Nothing wrong with patronage per se. It was the norm in 19th century European and North American states. And it was real gents who were the beneficiaries. And there's nothing particularly appealing about some classless arriviste working his way up with nothing but tedious merit. The problem is...

Not really, Some of the jobs go to campaign contributors and cronies. Some go to professional State Department officials who have worked their way up the ranks. If memory serves -- and I could be wrong -- Obama has been wont to assign more ambassadorships to cronies and contributors than has...

If he "turns himself in in a very public way," there will be some passive protesters standing with placards at street corners, who will be ignored by passing motorists. Eventually the protesters will get bored and melt away. There will be a media blackout in any case. Snowden will be tried in...

If Obama can be president, why can't this twit be an ambassador?

That is naive to the nth degree. You think the US state cares a fig about "public support?" Or cares a fig about "legitimacy?"

Can't one subsist on a diet of "hope and change?"

First of all, "collapse" is a "floating signifier," meaning different things to different people. There's no operational definition here. I read the piece and understood it. It's obscurantist economic-speak, which leaves you none the wiser, but having the vague feeling that something profound...

I'm in the USA and I did see the interview -- on Deutsche Welle (German news). Won't be shown on any of the mainstream television channels of the land of the free and the home of the brave.

If you use Orlov's taxonomy, the next step for Argentina will be commercial collapse, and then political collapse. But Argentina's been there before (2001). And there it will stop. Probably the nuanced difference between crisis and collapse is that in the latter -- according to Orlov -- there's...

A legitimate question. Orlov sees collapse as a five-stage process and you can read more here: http://cluborlov.blo...f-collapse.html This essay was subsequently expanded to book form and Orlov briefly describes the book here: http://cluborlov.blo...f-collapse.html And this is a review of...

Bring euros (if you can), not dollars as there's some uncertainty about the value of the US dollar as well.

It's like a structurally unsound bridge that got that way because of decades of neglect. Everything looks normal, traffic passes over it -- but you know that one day it'll collapse. But you don't know which day.

A 35-minute interview with John Williams of Shadowstats. In my exceedingly humble opinion it's well worth listening to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQt-FFDM_5k

The Argentinian mode of governance since at least the time of Peron has been crisis/emergency management as the country lurches from one government-created crisis to another. Postscript: More philosophically, maybe it's because of trying to reconcile capitalist imperatives with the demands of a...

This seems to be an accurate depiction. It has a pro-working class slant -- but then, it is a socialist site. http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/01/29/peso-j29.html

You're talking to someone who works as a quant and who's taken a slew of courses in macroeconomics. Save your sententious posts for the economically illtierate. What you're talking is gibberish but I haven't the patience to correct you -- and neither will you listen.