Arsonists Running the Fire Brigade

This article is a superb explanation of some of the structural problems facing our economy today, exasperated by foolish and corrupt Central Bankers and driven by greedy bastards on Wall Street.

The current trends, which are strongly reinforced by the honorless sociopolitical culture that has completely pervaded modern Western society, are going to result in nothing less than the utter and complete implosion of our financial, political and social systems.


As this quote in the article below states: "People who have made retirement plans based on past return assumptions will not be happy. Does anyone truly understand the implications of making the world's reserve currency a carry-trade currency for an extended period of time? I can see how this is good for bankers and the financial industry, and any intelligent investor will try to take advantage of it; but dear gods, the distortions in the economic landscape are mind-boggling."


The Dodd-Frank legislation needs to be disposed of and replaced with the Glass-Steagall Act from 1933.  Anything less will mean the total collapse of the world financial markets under the corruption of government and the greed of the captains of the financial sectors.

The PDF to the original article is here: http://d21uq3hx4esec9.cloudfront.net/uploads/pdf/131130_TFTF2.pdf

Edited: 2015-10-23 to fix 1937 to 1933 for passage of GS Act.

Character Encoding

I found an incredibly entertaining article regarding the development and use of character encoding sets.  I am going to paste it below in case this fellow ever decides to quit hosting his website.

Original article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html