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Until black swans were seen in Australia, swans were ‘predicted’ white. Today ‘Black Swans’ are improbable events with a dramatic impact. We have been tracking them since the GFC…
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[Brexit] Vive la Grande Bretagne !
Long live Great Britain!
Political speeches keep insisting on the motives behind the Brexit vow: the brits have apparently voted to leave the EU because of immigration. It’s very bad.
Such demonization happened… Continue reading
[Christine te parle] Dear Occupy, you’ve been right all this time!
Dear Left blogger, dear Occupy, dear Nuit Debout, dear early follower or The Other School of Economics, dear aficionado of BlaqSwans unpredictable events, dear Yanis V ….
Christine Lagarde from the… Continue reading
[Australia’s next crisis, part 3: the Regulator’s view] ASIC says it’s got the Big Aussie short covered
Part3: A big-short scenario for Australia has been getting a lot of attention this week. John Hempton, Bronte Capital‘s chief investment officer (a hedge fund) and Jonathan Tepper, an economist and… Continue reading
[Australia’s next crisis, part 2: the bull view] ‘Big Short’ on Aussie banks ‘will take years’ if true, JPMorgan says
Part2: A big-short scenario for Australia has been getting a lot of attention this week. John Hempton, Bronte Capital‘s chief investment officer (a hedge fund) and Jonathan Tepper, an economist and… Continue reading
[Australia’s next crisis, part 1: the bear view] Uncovering the big Aussie short
Part1: A big-short scenario for Australia has been getting a lot of attention this week. John Hempton, Bronte Capital‘s chief investment officer (a hedge fund) and Jonathan Tepper, an economist and… Continue reading
[ #RevenuUniversel ] Compte rendu & analyse de la conférence @GLthinktank Salle Gaveau du 4 fév 2016
Sorry, this entry is only available in French.
[2010-2015] Goldman Sachs compiled an epic list of 48 items that changed in 5 years
Picked up from Business Insider. Inserted here in Hi-Res:
5 years ago was 2010. It was already post the GFC of 2007-08. It feels like yesterday? Yet have a look at… Continue reading
Mapping the emerging Post-Capitalist Paradigm and its main Thinkers
This is a cross-post of a diagram and text we originally did for the P2P Foundation and which they first published on their wiki “http://blog.p2pfoundation.net”. It unexpectedly generated a lot comments…. Continue reading
[Charlie Hebdo, one year later] Lost in commemoration
One year after more than a million people took on the streets of France (and even abroad) to protest against the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the crowd was so thin it… Continue reading
[France] The truth is that without a new map cut by Hollande, the National Front would have won local government
One week after the disastrous local elections in France, the analysis can be summarised in a few points:
– The Left (le Parti Socialiste) only keeps 5 of the 12 “regions”… Continue reading
[Saudi women voted for the 1st time] “But who’s going to look after the kids?”
Saudi Arabia’s women were allowed to vote in local elections for the first time on Saturday 12 December 2015. We’re very happy about it – albeit it is starting from such… Continue reading
[Watch] An atheist (Sam Harris) and a Muslim (Maajid Nawaz) on the future of Islam
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation – Lateline – Broadcast: 28/10/2015 – Reporter: Tony Jones
This is really a must watch and read especially after the shootings in Paris (13/11) and Beirut (12/11), and the… Continue reading
A ton avis quelle est la ville avec le plus de charme ? Paris !!
Sorry, this entry is only available in French.
[Headache] Paris attacks: Who benefits from ISIS terrorism? Bashar al-Assad
OPINION – Original paywalled article from the Australian Financial Review
Paris attacks: Who benefits from the terrorism? Bashar al-Assad
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, seen here with Russian President Putin, who is backing the dictator’s… Continue reading
[Freudian] Former US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson cannot stop laughing about inequality: “We Made It Wider!”
At a conference hosted in April 2015 by the real wolf of Wall Street Mike Milken (sentenced to ten years in prison for racketeering and securities fraud in 1989, fined… Continue reading
When Gandhi was prefacing the Peer-to-Peer, and post-capitalist sharing economy
[Fr – Eng]
The Art Gallery of New South Wales is currently exhibiting a monumental work from Jitish Kallat, “Public Notice 2”. It reproduces a foundational speech from Gandhi pronounced on… Continue reading
[2005-2015] This isn’t a crisis, this is a system: Greek tragedy in 5 acts
[Fr – Eng]
Whilst the Blaq Swans are busy translating this post in English, you can practice your French and enjoy the original version here
[Greek Tragedy] Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis comes back on Greece’s economic crisis
The Australian Magazine The Monthly published in its August 2015 issue an excellent interview of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. With the benefit of hindsight, he comes back on the circumstances of… Continue reading
“Why falling food prices mean the US Fed won’t probably raise rates (yet)?”: analysing the pros and cons
In anticipation of this coming week’s US Fed meeting to decide on short-term interest rates, some analysts have been discussing an interesting link between food prices and the US Fed rates. Here… Continue reading
The tea leaves are unequivocal: the latest French nuclear EPR technology has finally reached maturity
[eng – fr]
A reader wrote to blaqswans.org, and we found it interesting to publish that text to contribute to the debate on nuclear, which is too often Manichean.
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Raymondo – 9… Continue reading