Caging Godzillas

Sustainability Requires Caging Godzillas- Andrew Sheng (INET)
Finance reforms, to meet the challenges of trade cycles and the debt bubble require Financial, Social and Resource Stability and Sustainability.
Finance is ungovernable, because of creation of credit.(paraphrased and contexted 4:58 in video through 10 minutes and more on global game-local blame.) The bubble containment dilemma*: leveraged capital flow, ability to get around** boundaries and rules. My aside: Bailouts are not stimulus, and stimulus are not bailouts. The problem and the solution are at the vertex of the three in politics and governance. Finance reform recognizes the role of governments in creating a system(market rules) that balances consumption and "creative destruction". The Godzillas are the metaphor for the responsibility that is avioded by not taking on the responsibility and blaming the market. Rollover of debt to public debt, crisis of reserve currency and international monetary system. Segue: BO-OB Barack Obama -Optimism Bias Extra Credit: Debt is not just about borrowing, it is about not paying for it. All bailouts and stimulus, not being equal, let alone at all similar, they are not all bad. Something somewhere has got to give. It is not all about free markets and free trade, but providing a system that does not just take, whether it is freedom, labor or resources.

[Laffer Cry or D ' Ribble]

[Hint: to Obama: Wrong Try Pod? More Cow Bell.]
[Huntsman Aside, Ring Obama]
[AND Congress- as amended: cutting loopholes are on the spending cuts not the tax hikes side of the equation.]

* my model/metaphor related to Platonic Tetrahedron
[** not an endorsement of shape of the curve, but another Godzilla factor]
[Breaking News: Presidential Press Conference]
[See Comments below Re:]
[Update: 7-1-11 He has a long way to go to be a Boehner or a Whiner, let alone "Tricky D." ]

HiAteUs?

There seems to be no more than 4 dimensions.
3D+T or Delta.
Physics, Economics and Theology, in time.
2cubed=8 Δ
[7-6-11 puiblished from draft...NOT]
[7-8-11 link added]

High8US

[7-6-11 links added]

(continued)
In ConText:
Over Helming.
Underwhelmed?
HiAteUS
Humpty Dumpty...
Ideology
Connecting the Dots
Way, Too Point Oh?
Way[!]
No Frackin' Way
Image Processing
Re:Verb
'nuff said
Ledership[!]
Antithesis of Nuance

Related sites:
Finance and Mandelbrot
Reader Supported News
Instutute for New Economic Thinking (Flip-flop and Obliquity)
The New Yorker*
The Economist
YouTube

Calm Pend I um? (or E'em)

*Footnote: Thank Finance and Mandelbrot for The New Yorker and The Economist links [also: errors(not fully read yet) and thank the Democrats for the YouTube.]

BTW: The above image and photo, did not turn out(inserted) as intended, not that there is anything wrong with that. (Sign Feld Pun )["Close enough for government work".[!] ]
[Writer's Almanac: KUOW, Natural Gas, Regenerating, Life After, Burning: Inslee and much More.]

Over Helming.

[6-24-11 The lack of pomp and need for circumstance*(or circumdecision?)
President Obama on the Way Forward in Afghanistan(video)
Just an aftergoogle. But I will add that Randi Rhodes gave an impressive perspective on the President's remarks, not necessarily here, but it is reflected a bit in the video of the Democrats bringing it home.]

Please note the navigational metaphor in Professor John Kay's interview in the context of Professor Ha-Joon Chang's interview and the Bib Leo File of Republic Cons.
Inter-Dimentionalism and Ge Oh Metricks not so aside: The 6Sigma of Newt needs a pinnacle of purpose. i.e. there truly needs to be a navigational approach. Not akin to "rocket science"**, but having an aim and the model to chart it. My point is that 6 Sigma does not have a point, or rather a point is needed a priori for it to work. Actually it is not about the 6 edges of a tetrahedron, but the break down of the bell curve. If it were only about the bell curve it might have a point. My point is that politics has a point of balancing power and processing the point. But from a freedom perspective is that a goal? But from a navigational perspective there is a need for a 3D grid plus time and processing. The six edges of a tetradedron reflect the 4D dynamics of the process, that is not the goal. The goal is out there, the dream or unrealized principles if you will. The balance or base is the Try Angle*** and dynamics of Physics, Psychology and Philosophy(also processes as well as subjects) for realizing our balance of powers and dreams.

* an after link: NY Times from Randi Rhodes Blog
(also TPM)
** after bolds(4) in original post
*** pun on 3 points determine a plane(and tripod) but a 4th point determines 3 dimensions. Not to mention the Geo of Risk and Robustness of Nassim Taleb. He must not be taken out of context. Reducing debt does not mean reducing spending and economics is not the most efficient determinant. "(nature) it seems very inefficient for an economist but it is robust"(...)"I want society...to be more robust and more open to up side." My only point is that society(politics see "science" bold following "rocket") has a place in determining the rules that provide the circumstances.]

Underwhelmed?

[Updated 6-23-11 on two fronts: below and here.]
Fairly Helmed(text)

Underwhelmed* is the lede some might choose for their take on
President Obama on the Way Forward in Afghanistan(video)

Yet tonight, we take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding. Fewer of our sons and daughters are serving in harm’s way. We’ve ended our combat mission in Iraq, with 100,000 American troops already out of that country. And even as there will be dark days ahead in Afghanistan, the light of a secure peace can be seen in the distance. These long wars will come to a responsible end.

As they do, we must learn their lessons. Already this decade of war has caused many to question the nature of America’s engagement around the world. Some would have America retreat from our responsibility as an anchor of global security, and embrace an isolation that ignores the very real threats that we face. Others would have America over-extended, confronting every evil that can be found abroad.

We must chart a more centered course. Like generations before, we must embrace America’s singular role in the course of human events. But we must be as pragmatic as we are passionate; as strategic as we are resolute. When threatened, we must respond with force -- but when that force can be targeted, we need not deploy large armies overseas. When innocents are being slaughtered and global security endangered, we don’t have to choose between standing idly by or acting on our own. Instead, we must rally international action, which we’re doing in Libya, where we do not have a single soldier on the ground, but are supporting allies in protecting the Libyan people and giving them the chance to determine their own destiny.

In all that we do, we must remember that what sets America apart is not solely our power -- it is the principles upon which our union was founded.

* Norman Goldman and Mike Malloy

[6-23-11 Selected quotes from remarks extended.]

America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home.

(...)

That’s a lesson worth remembering -- that we are all a part of one American family. Though we have known disagreement and division, we are bound together by the creed that is written into our founding documents, and a conviction that the United States of America is a country that can achieve whatever it sets out to accomplish. Now, let us finish the work at hand. Let us responsibly end these wars, and reclaim the American Dream that is at the center of our story. With confidence in our cause, with faith in our fellow citizens, and with hope in our hearts, let us go about the work of extending the promise of America -- for this generation, and the next.

May God bless our troops. And may God bless the United States of America.

Bully for Obama, no Bully, no Teddy,more pulpit.

Hi Ate Us

[updated 6-23-11 here and here]
[updated 6-22-11 below]

Escher On Edge
(8-29-10)
US in perspective?

(Obliquity?)
Follow up from Bib Leo File.(Interesting)

[Log-in prevented me from posting this comment (at INET...) which I save here.]
Michael your comment on "free market" and "freedom" begs definition. Words are often taken out of context or provide context, but my comment might be better framed as "problematic" or hitting the nail on the head. A "free market" will always be defined by some powers, and that does not imply that "freedom" exists. "Freedom" will always existed in the context of(relation to) other forces, market or no. This is not to provoke or confound, but may just be paraphrasing your intent, as I seem to find in your conclusion. The need for providing... an equation for the real world, or rather for economics which is yet to reflect the real world and thereby address the "myopia of share ownership". Hint to self: regards dymamics of "free market" regulating power. Back to the drawing board?[Now I just may review the interview and two comments before "provoking". Earlier, I caught the lede of a "related video" by a grad student about getting economists out into the real world, but I have been unable to find it @inet...]
[Provocative thought two: Companies should not be run in the interest of the owners. i.e. maximizing value for share holders Correlated provocation: what about the costs to the economy?]
[6-22-11(cont){italics above denote changes} PT1: There is no such thing as a "free market". Myth of "market objectivity". Myth2: "Free Trade does not make countries richer".]
[6-22-11 Comment submitted and extended here and here meanwhile regarding the golden rule .]

[Footnote on "Hi Ate" US i.e. Taleb and Kay (in the context of politics/economics being connected but having different objectives)] O K ? Navigational Models. Again, what is the point?]

Humpty Dumpty...

Sat* on a wall, and the yoke is on us.

[THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN: Tikkun Magazine Man/June 2009]

[Saved in draft 6-16-11, redated as published with addendum, The Daily Rant on The Dylan Ratigan Show(Mark Ames: Exiled No More: IPO for America**). Where are the tin-foil hats now? If only this were only Fable TV.(To be clear, I am not suggesting second amendment solutions, but there is a difference between Sharon Angle exploiting fear for the sake of exploiting the people and the media, and a Ted Rall expounding upon and exploiting his solutions. Then there is a third tier, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow(and Dylan Radigan) exploiting and expounding upon the issues for ratings and our consideration.)]

[I had no idea this*** might be the e pit o'me (2).]


* William Grieder under Humpty Dumpty

** please excuse the "bat frackin'" language

*** or this
[footnote? [!] Draining the swamp, versus raising 'gators.]

6-19-11 High8US[!]
6-20-11 Bib Leo File Roar[!]Reread: THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN: Tikkun Magazine Man/June 2009 The Wall? [!] "dark sarcasm"

Ideology

The perspective one has of society's creation and one's role in it.***

Not* Exactly[!]

[Ideology and Iowa are a lot like the eye of the needle or camel.(no pun)]

[Perspective: to be processed later more or less...[!]
Speaking of ant or fable TV. Democrats cannot afford to have distractions or liars, just because "the Right" does it. Speaking of irrelative**: ant:Anthony, Ed:Rush,(or Beck Or Reck) Whiner:BaneOr, silver lining:golden rule, objective/subjective ]

* iOWa, iRreleFont? Rachel Maddow discusses the "small i" people. But then, eye had not seen her comments.

** something about relative in regards to the differences in ideologies and personalities on spectrum ofor loopiness on the left or right.

***[Media(sources) a side: wMD: I may go on or take hiatus but the bottomline is the top line is mine. i.e. I have only begun the Mike Cormack book, and I am not quoting it. Ibid this bracket.(Thanks to truthout.org for this last crack, not the book]

[!]Hi Ate Us, interesting Try Angle or Segue(way)[]. Or Tr(eye)i Pod?
A.B.C.D...

Connecting the Dots

Yesterday's post was a bit too way out,(Way, Too Point Oh?), from the Campaign for America's Future's Star Wars attack to the Institute for New Economic Thinking's flip-flop of the free market fantasia. By way of explaining the stretch, from the Wall Street Bull to the Statue of Liberty there is the Bully Poor Pit.

Obama is no Trekky or cable guy, but he is more bullish than just hat. I was recently reminded that the "bully" in "bully pulpit" is not the bully of the school yard but was Teddy's term for good. Bully for him. President Obama is no messiah, no FDR and no Teddy, but he is also no bull nor bully. He will be at the Bully Pulpit, and that is a good thing. No pun.
[See 1st Comment]
[update Chris Matthews: more links and follow-up today.]

Way, Too Point Oh?

On the "to read" or "not too" read front, Speaker Bane Or quotes Campaign for America's Future, but can it be put in context, not cherry picked?

Speaking of hitting the nail on the bubble. Here is "the hammer" (no pun) to the "free market" fantasy and the right.

[Please note that I had not yet finished reading the first link before I watched the second link's interview and had read the last link's editorial. What is the point? Well, I had yet to get to the 3 dimensional nature of the argument, not to mention fighting the farce. So boldly* go where*** the borg** dares tread.]

* now 3 bolds mean 3 read
** update correction speaking of quotations
[SpeaKING of links or D'Ribble.]
[Not too men/tion.]
*** last insert: hint of context

(8-29-2010 Bowling Green Park, NY)

[May the farce not be with you, or against us. More from Ed and Obama. But "here" is the Republican Debate. Speaking of tread or is it bubbles or gravitas?]

(8-28-2011, on the way to Ellis Island, N.Y. And a tip of the hat to Ed.)
[Not to mention talking down with Chris Matthews(updated links) or Punching Up the talk. Will there be a draft a Texan or Floridian? Rick Perry is not in the race, and Michele Bachmann is. ]

Way[!]

Not Exactly [!] (Sarcasm aside !)
[Important to reads: Doing What Works, not Lean Six Sigma, but* Try Angles!]

*also Taleb link (too update)

[Earlier con/text

No Frackin' Way

Nuclear power is one thing*, but Frackin' with our water?

* not green(except for trickle up)
[What the frack is the connection to Newt Gingrich, well the paradox of green and being able to be a paradox period. His frackin' campaign seems to be burning the candle on both ends. But this is too complex for me to explain, except for the idea that he commits to Lean Six Sigma,*** but not to the concepts his staff thinks it will take to win. Is this a bringing it to the table moment ala the silver lining of the churned media cloud? It is bad enough that Republicans have enough money to run their lies in ads and Faux News, but they have enough to add cloud to the process.]
[Not to** mention lame stream media.]

** way
*** last frackin' link

[Post comments footnote(see my two comments): There is nothing wrong with Six Sigma as a tool, but it may be besides the point, but not aside from the point of whose hands it is in, and for what purpose it is wielded(people or profit). In fact, I believe that "Lean Six Sigma" violates "Six Sigma" principles by having a target of 25% spending reduction, which demonstrates my point on purposes and whose hands should wield it for what. Aside from the point: what the frack is the point of government?]

Image processing

Backing Ryan:

Democrats have simplified their message saying the Republican plan, your plan, kills Medicare. What is the shortest clearest response to that, from you? "Obamacare kills Medicare as we know it."

Obviously they must know it differently* than it has been known.

Meanwhile my Re:Verb image has not yet returned. But it could have only been symbolic for the back and forth(give and take), need for another perspective, other than the third way**.

*apples and oranges
** generally known as the Clinton way, aiming for the middle of the political spectrum (when the target might not be in the middle, but above the bottom line***)

*** rhetorical geometrics of give and take in the political forum
[Speaking of image processing.]

Re:Verb

Or Sleep* Blogger.
[Original context** to be recaptured later.]***

* "google test"(connecting dots)
** metaphor as language?
*** my original dream(or snooze) muse escaped me(not quite it, or is it? Not!)((nor this)
[Getting warmer?, but I may take a hint in my labels. Speaking of Iron Knee. ]

'nuff said

O'Really?

Just to note that I have no recent thoughts saved in draft. Although I just lost a few due to some technical anomaly(ala Whiner)*, which may be for the best.

* blogspot acting up not me

Ledership [!]

Yes Ledership!
No(sic)!
[!]= irony/sarcasm (sometimes [])

Therefore:
Republican Budget Extremist and Cruel
Obama Won't Extend Bush Tax Cuts Again: Pledge To House Dems

Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover
(Bill Moyers Interviews Andrew Bacevich)*,
sometimes not (God is not a Christian).

*I have only cherry picked this piece,(nfry): "Our finest warriors are often our most reluctant warmongers." While this is the only link I have not fully read(I hope to digest[] it later), I will say that in context, I do not need to fully agree, with his take on leadership vs. followers.

i.e. the first two links are on leadership, and you can judge it by the lede

Antithesis of Nuance.

That is the fair and balanced look at name-calling scatmongers. In the spirit of Platonic dialogue it is a potential*** pettifogger, and difficult to be untergiversating. Name calling or labels are subtly different but often the lazy route to understanding. This does nothing to justify misogyny, but it is often in the eye or ear of the beholder**. Not to defend the use of the "s" word (slut nor scat) or even comment on the use of the "r" word (Republican?) but to maybe note the lack of better words not to mention (PC) proper context*.

* "name-calling scatmongers"
** as it is wielded
*** embedded obliquity
[Non Sequitor? Or at least less Ad Hominem.]
[OUCH! Remember: context, context, context, and then there is still another perspectivism. Note: in fact my FB comment was lost in the act of seeking context. Something about, "playfully provocative" is in the eye of the beholder...]