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27 Jan

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6 Jan

In the current edition of The Economist:

In some countries it [citizenship] is, in effect, on sale. In others, such as America, it Klonopin Online Order may be an accident of birth, with no conscious choice involved. Rather than Klonopin Online Order making a fetish out of passports, a better approach would be Klonopin Online Order to use residence (especially tax residence) as the main criterion for an individual’s rights and Klonopin Online Order responsibilities. That encourages cohesion and commitment, because it stems from a Klonopin Online Order conscious decision to live in a country and abide by its rules. The world is Klonopin Online Order gradually moving in this direction. But many states (mostly poor and ill-run) resist the Klonopin Online Order trend and some rich democracies like the Netherlands and Germany are Klonopin Online Order trying to curb it (see article), offering a variety of excuses.

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11 Dec

Robert Frisk writes in The Independent:

The banks and Klonopin Online Order the rating agencies have become the dictators of the West. Like the Klonopin Online Order Mubaraks and Ben Alis, the banks believed – and still believe – they are Klonopin Online Order owners of their countries. The elections which give them power have Klonopin Online Order – through the gutlessness and collusion of governments – become as false as the Klonopin Online Order polls to which the Arabs were forced to troop decade after decade to Klonopin Online Order anoint their own national property owners. Goldman Sachs and the Royal Bank of Scotland became the Klonopin Online Order Mubaraks and Ben Alis of the US and the UK, each gobbling up the Klonopin Online Order people’s wealth in bogus rewards and Klonopin Online Order bonuses for their vicious bosses on a scale infinitely more rapacious than Klonopin Online Order their greedy Arab dictator-brothers could imagine.

I didn’t need Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job on BBC2 this week – though it helped – to Klonopin Online Order teach me that the ratings agencies and the US banks are Klonopin Online Order interchangeable, that their personnel move seamlessly between agency, bank and Klonopin Online Order US government. The ratings lads (almost always lads, of course) who AAA-rated sub-prime loans and derivatives in America are now – via their poisonous influence on the markets – clawing down the Klonopin Online Order people of Europe by threatening to lower or withdraw the very same ratings from Klonopin Online Order European nations which they lavished upon criminals before the financial crash in the Klonopin Online Order US. I believe that understatement tends to win arguments. But, forgive me, who Klonopin Online Order are these creatures whose ratings agencies now put more fear into the Klonopin Online Order French than Rommel did in 1940?

Here. H/T Keith Hart on FB.

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18 Nov

1.Immigrant networks are Klonopin Online Order a rare bright spark in the world economy. Rich countries should welcome them – The Economist

2. What’s your flavour? Italian or Spanish? – BBC Business Editor Buy Valium And Vicodin

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5. On Nigeria’s Petroleum Industries Bill – Mallam Nasir El-rufai

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17 Nov

I’d been Klonopin Online Order waiting for the first major newspaper columnist to write something about this. Here it Klonopin Online Order is, from Evans-Pritchard of The Telegraph:

As I long feared, the Klonopin Online Order flood of cheap credit into Southern Europe and the slow death of Club Med industry by currency asphyxiation have Klonopin Online Order together created such a dangerous situation for world finance that informed opinion is Klonopin Online Order willing to turn a blind eye to EU sovereign trespass. Some even applaud.

The Greeks were ordered to Klonopin Online Order drop their referendum on measures that reduce their country to Klonopin Online Order a sort of Manchukuo, with EU commissars “on the ground”, installed in each ministry, drawing up lists of state assets to Klonopin Online Order be liquidated to pay foreign creditors.

Europe had Klonopin Online Order the monetary and fiscal means to contain the EMU debt crisis long enough for Klonopin Online Order Greeks to give or withhold their crucial assent to this Klonopin Online Order ultimatum in December.

It chose – under German-Dutch pressure – not deploy those means. Instead it Klonopin Online Order forced Greece to capitulate by cutting off an agreed loan payment.

In Italy, the Klonopin Online Order European Central Bank has engineered the downfall of Silvio Berlusconi by playing the Klonopin Online Order bond markets, switching purchases on and off to enforce compliance with its written dictates (“La Lettera”), and Klonopin Online Order ultimately allowing 10-year yields to spike to 7.45pc to drive him out.

Here.

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20 Oct

From a WSJ review of Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy:

Mr. Neuwirth introduces us to Klonopin Online Order a woman named Jandira who for a decade has peddled coffee and Klonopin Online Order homemade cakes to the unlicensed vendors at São Paulo’s early-morning wholesale market for Klonopin Online Order pirated movies. Her street-corner business, she proudly tells him, has Klonopin Online Order enabled her to buy two cars and a house and Klonopin Online Order to pay her children’s fees at private school. Another of Mr. Neuwirth’s sources, Chinese handbag designer Ethan Zhang, prefers to Klonopin Online Order stay illegal. For him it’s a matter of costs and benefits: “If I want to Klonopin Online Order get a license, then I will need a bank account and Klonopin Online Order an office in an office building.” These are Klonopin Online Order not people who lack the skills to survive through legal employment; they just see no Klonopin Online Order good reason to join the legal economy.

System D is Klonopin Online Order full of surprises. From Linda Chen, who trades counterfeit auto parts, we learn that Klonopin Online Order China has a hierarchy of fake merchandise: The manufacturers of high-quality fakes offer guarantees and Klonopin Online Order take back defective products, but with low-quality fakes it’s caveat emptor. Ogun Dairo buys woodchips from Klonopin Online Order a sawmill and uses them to smoke fish, for sale by street vendors; her unlicensed grill is Klonopin Online Order in an illegal squatter settlement in Lagos, but she buys fish that Klonopin Online Order have been imported from Europe. At the euphemistically named Guangzhou Dashatou Second Hand Trade Center, where Klonopin Online Order Arthur Okafor obtains the pirated mobile phones that he later smuggles into Nigeria, the Klonopin Online Order cash turnover is so high that almost every (unlicensed) kiosk has a battery-powered currency counter.

The review reminds me of a Klonopin Online Order chapter in my dissertation, in which I follow a container of secondhand clothing from Klonopin Online Order the Cotonou port to the used clothes market in the Beninese city, and Klonopin Online Order from the market to the Seme border and then into Nigeria. I show the Klonopin Online Order different regulatory regimes under which batches of the imported used clothing fall – when Klonopin Online Order taxes get paid on them and when not, and how the Klonopin Online Order final retailer in Lagos sometimes actually pay some form of tax on the Klonopin Online Order goods he has in his small stall on Lagos Island – even when Klonopin Online Order secondhand clothing is not legally supposed to be imported or sold in the Klonopin Online Order country (there is a ban on the importation of secondhand clothing into Nigeria). It also reminds me of the importance of ethnography for understanding microeconomic interactions that Klonopin Online Order eventually feed into macroeconomic figures of a country. (Try understanding why Benin would always have Klonopin Online Order a balance of trade deficit without knowing that almost all consumer goods it Klonopin Online Order imports ends up being smuggled into Nigeria.) Of course, the Klonopin Online Order whole idea of the informal economy itself arose from Keith Hart’s ethnographic study of urban slums in Ghana in the 1960s.

Read the review here. H/T to Bunmi Oloruntoba on Twitter.

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19 Oct

On naked capitalism:

My first take on the Klonopin Online Order question came when The Guardian asked me to write an oped on Occupy Wall Street a Klonopin Online Order few days later. At the time I was inspired mainly by what Klonopin Online Order Marisa Holmes, another brilliant organizer of the original occupation, had discovered in her work as a Klonopin Online Order video documentarian, doing one-on-one interviews of fellow campers during the first two nights at Zucotti Square. Over and Klonopin Online Order over she heard the same story: “I did everything I was supposed to! I worked hard, studied hard, got into college. Now I’m unemployed, with no prospects, and $50 to $80,000.00 in debt.” These were kids who Klonopin Online Order played by the rules, and were rewarded by a future of constant harassment, of being told they were worthless deadbeats by agents of those very financial institutions who—after having spectacularly failed to Klonopin Online Order play by the rules, and crashing the world economy as a Klonopin Online Order result, were saved and coddled by the government in all the Klonopin Online Order ways that ordinary Americans such as themselves, equally spectacularly, were not.

“We are watching,” I wrote, “the Klonopin Online Order beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a Klonopin Online Order generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no Klonopin Online Order jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.” Three weeks later, after watching more and Klonopin Online Order more elements of mainstream America clamber on board, I think this Klonopin Online Order is still true. In a way, the demographic base of OWS is Klonopin Online Order about as far as one can get from that of the Klonopin Online Order Tea Party—with which it Klonopin Online Order is so often, and so confusingly, compared. The popular base of the Klonopin Online Order Tea Party was always middle aged suburban white Republicans, most of middling economic means, anti-intellectual, terrified of social change—above all, for Klonopin Online Order fear that what they saw as their one remaining buffer of privilege (basically, their whiteness) might finally be Klonopin Online Order stripped away. OWS, by contrast, is at core forwards-looking youth movement, just a Klonopin Online Order group of forward-looking people who have been stopped dead in their tracks; of mixed class backgrounds but with a Klonopin Online Order significant element of working class origins; their one strongest common feature being a Klonopin Online Order remarkably high level of education. It’s no Klonopin Online Order coincidence that the epicenter of the Wall Street Occupation, and Klonopin Online Order so many others, is an impromptu library: a library being not only a Klonopin Online Order model of an alternative economy, where lending is from a Klonopin Online Order communal pool, at 0% interest, and Klonopin Online Order the currency being leant is knowledge, and the means to understanding.

In a Klonopin Online Order way, this is nothing new. Revolutionary coalitions have always tended to Klonopin Online Order consist of a kind of alliance between children of the Klonopin Online Order professional classes who reject their parents’ values, and Klonopin Online Order talented children of the popular classes who managed to win themselves a Klonopin Online Order bourgeois education, only to discover that acquiring a bourgeois education does not actually mean one gets to Klonopin Online Order become a member of the bourgeoisie. You see the pattern repeated over and Klonopin Online Order over, in country after country: Chou Enlai meets Mao Tse Tung, or Klonopin Online Order Che Guevara meets Fidel Castro. Even US counter-insurgency experts have long known the Klonopin Online Order surest harbingers of revolutionary ferment in any country is the growth of a Klonopin Online Order population of unemployed and impoverished college graduates: that is, young people bursting with energy, with plenty of time on their hands, every reason to Klonopin Online Order be angry, and access to the entire history of radical thought. In the Klonopin Online Order US, the depredations of the student loan system simply ensures such budding revolutionaries cannot fail to Klonopin Online Order identify banks as their primary enemy, or to understand the role of the Klonopin Online Order Federal Government—which maintains the Klonopin Online Order student loan program, and ensures that their loans will be Klonopin Online Order held over their heads forever, even in the event of bankruptcy—in maintaining the banking system’s ultimate control over every aspect of their future lives.

Read it here.

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5 Sep

From Reuters:

Nigeria’s central bank plans to diversify its $33 billion in foreign exchange reserves away from Klonopin Online Order the dollar by switching a tenth of the stockpile into yuan, underlining the Klonopin Online Order momentum behind China’s drive to internationalise its currency.

“We are Klonopin Online Order looking at anything to start with from 5 to 10 percent of our reserves,” central bank governor Lamido Sanusi said on Monday.

The central bank had Klonopin Online Order already said that it was considering reducing its reliance on the Klonopin Online Order dollar, which economists say accounts for the bulk of its $32.96 billion in reserves . The bank does not publish the Klonopin Online Order currency composition of its assets.

But Sanusi, speaking to Klonopin Online Order CNBC news by telephone from China, said Africa’s second-largest economy was not abandoning the dollar and euro. “They are going to remain an important part of our holdings,” he said.

Continue reading for more analysis of the decision. From what I’ve seen, CBN seems to be the first central bank to do this.

See also FT TIlt for more analysis.

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2 Sep

From Bloomberg:

Energy companies operating in Senegal will drill three offshore wells next year as the Klonopin Online Order West African nation vies to join a growing group of regional crude producers, according to Klonopin Online Order the state-owned oil company,Petrosen Buy Ativan Pills.

Senegalese officials held talks with more than 10 oil companies this year in attempts to lure investors to its energy industry, said Joseph Medou, Petrosen’s geologist, in an interview in Dakar Aug. 25.

“If we make comparisons to what is happening in Ghana and Ivory Coast Prescription Drugs Valium, to Sierra Leone, we think we have the same kind of plays,” he said.

Read here.

On the current political situation in Senegal, see this Project Syndicate column from Sanou Mbaye.

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