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By: Some People Just Don’t Know When To Quit | SLEEPING WITH PENGOVSKY

Some People Just Don’t Know When To Quit | SLEEPING WITH PENGOVSKY — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:15:38 +0000

[…] the outgoing Prime-Minister Janez Janša has gotten law-suit-happy. Not only has he filed a suit agaist Magnus Berglund, a reporter with Finnish YLE and author of a […]

By: pengovsky

pengovsky — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:54:10 +0000

Actually, Arhar was talking about derivatives (i.e.: mortgages being sliced up, repackaged and resold) which were sold among various investment banks.

The US (the Fed, if you will), however, has borrowed a lot of money from China by selling them treasury bonds.

By: dr. filomena

dr. filomena — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:47:32 +0000

Do we know who really owns those treasury bills? I haven’t the foggiest about the ways of global economy (and I really should learn more about it!) but seem to remember reading in dr. Arhar’s article that part of the reason for the current prevalent mistrust rampaging through financial markets is that nobody really knows who owes how much to whom. With the IOUs having been sold and resold and sold again without keeping record of their current holders. I could of course have this completely wrong as my memory has a reputation for being somewhat swisscheesish.

By: pengovsky

pengovsky — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:45:24 +0000

@gandalf: he filed a suit in Slovenia. No other option, since he filed criminal charges.

@pirano:

Point about Chinese interests. However, what if the administration is trying to squeeze them out?

Elevtoralvote.com covers the “mobile phone” issue in that very same post. However, I’ve never heard of that being an issue in Europe. I will keep my eyes open, though

By: pirano

pirano — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:29:34 +0000

Meant to add a thought about that electoralvote.com link re: polling info. The key there, more important than the “Bradley Effect” ie whites lying in polls about voting for a black candidate is that pollsters never reach those whose primary phone is a mobile phone. I’m sure that’s been written about somewhere by someone; curious how it comes into play in Europe. Have you seen any studies/anecdotes on this?

By: pirano

pirano — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:16:22 +0000

cool, I need a toaster!

Similar China scenarios have been bandied about in recent years. Not sure how quickly they want to “destroy” the US economy given how much they sell there.

By: gandalf

gandalf — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:50:07 +0000

In which country did he file suite? In finland? Doubt that would work, since there is a freedom of press there..