Twenty Reasons for the Chaos

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Wow – another EuroSavant post that simply writes itself! This time that delectable characteristic arises from the particular format employed (as you will soon see), and the article in question comes from Information, the Danish intellectual weekly newspaper, with the pungent title 20 reasons for the chaos we find ourselves in (and yes, it’s someone else’s fault).

Let’s go through these twenty reasons, then, shall we? – and see where we agree with the article’s author (with a very German name, I must say), Anna von Sperling. We might even keep a sort of running score; that nice, tapered, obviously feminine, nude (i.e. no rings) finger there pointing accusingly to the right at the article’s head starts us out with “one” . . . (more…)

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Alan Greenspan Goes All Rumsfeldian

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Former long-term Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, all of 81 years, is still around, and you can be sure that he has some interesting things to say about the sub-prime-inspired financial troubles making all the headlines these days. The leading German opinion-weekly Die Zeit recently caught up with him for a brief interview published as Die große Ironie des Erfolgs – whose English version is also accessible as The great irony of success. (The “English version,” if you think about it, is properly the “original,” since I’m not aware that Greenspan speaks German.) (more…)

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