Ramen Review

“[... Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant will be operational by 2009 ...]”
Spokesman Mohsen Delavizi, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. November 18th 2008
n-tv gives some details[de:] IRNA lacks; I have no idea where they got it from. Al-Jazeera does not carry the news yet. Neither does CNN. In any case, the Germans claim that they’re doing final outfitting in Bushehr as of now and adds a “we hope” before the quote above.
I observe: there is not a cratered landscape littered with debris … read more

Citigroup to cut 50K more jobs. On top of the 13K that already are gone, and the 9K that remain to be done in.

“What all of us have done - and perhaps injudiciously - we’ve added a lot of people over [...] this very benign period [...]”
Citigroup chairman Win Bischoff, November 17th 2008

Maybe so. What you guys did do was to play around, as late as 2008, with investments — a lot of investments — that had “EXPIRY DATE DUE … read more