Η θεία Λούκα και οι Τραπεζίτες

Σε μια συνέντευξη ο πρόεδρος και διευθύνων σύμβουλος της Apple, Steve Jobs, ρωτήθηκε για το μέλλον των προσωπικών ηλεκτρικών συσκευών. Ήταν μια εύλογη ερώτηση στον άνθρωπο που από τα τέλη της δεκαετίας του 70 έχει παίξει τον πιο καθοριστικό ρόλο σε αυτό τον τομέα. Ο Steve Jobs απάντησε ότι απλά δεν ήξερε. Συνέχεια

America’s bubble dependency

What Barack Obama needs now more than anything else is an economic bubble to form early enough to save his presidency. Nothing spectacular about that wish since the American economy has become dependent on economic bubbles in order to generate noticeable growth. Continue

Bringing Out the Worst in Europe

Like most postwar European institutions, the Eurovision song contest was born decadent and since then it has only gotten worse. Eurovision, is the annual contest that brings together 39 countries, the vast majority of them European, in a competition of previously unpublished songs. Eurovision started in 1956 as an effort to bring together the countries of war-torn Europe. Continue