Be the signal » economy http://bethesignal.org where we're going, we don't need roads... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:57:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Clarke and Dawe on the world’s lending merry-go-round http://bethesignal.org/blog/2010/05/21/clarke-dawe-world-lending-merry-go-round/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2010/05/21/clarke-dawe-world-lending-merry-go-round/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 10:22:05 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://bethesignal.org/?p=1653 Continue reading →]]> Clarke and Dawe on the 7:30 Report last night, for my international readers:

“How can broke economies lend money to other broke economies who haven’t got any money, because they can’t pay back the money the broke economy lent to the other broke economy and shouldn’t have lent it to them in the first place cause the broke economy can’t pay it back?”

“You’re wasting very valuable time, Roger.”

]]> http://bethesignal.org/blog/2010/05/21/clarke-dawe-world-lending-merry-go-round/feed/ 1 WotD: surge http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/09/22/wotd-surge/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/09/22/wotd-surge/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:17:12 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://bethesignal.org/?p=1203 surge, noun — Throwing good after bad. Such as: money, lives, reputation, international good-will.

Recent examples of use: Iraq, Wall Street, deregulation, tax cuts for the top 1%, War on Drugs.

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