Ramen Review

Picture is not that much related.
So… by now it should be clear theat the Greek Situation is dead serious.
No Flachs[de:]
The SocDems are doing perhaps the first major thing since long that looks like it might actually work, instead of making you think “ho hum, again? Prions or brain flukes, I wonder…”.
Which is to say they abstained when the Greece bailout bill was put on vote today[de:]. The Socialists went for an all-out Nay, as was expected. The Greens were … read more

(Too pissed off of the universe to add links right now, also need to run some PCR 2mo’. Maybe l8r.)
A month as uneventful as it was full of summer heat and monochrome karma.
Kim the Lesser’s guys have assembled some more rockets in NKorea and are showing off. Everybody is pissed, except the NKoreans, who are partly elated and partly… … I don’t expect it to matter to their daily lives too much.
Peace in Sri Lanka? I fear not — though … read more

via the good anonymi at 4chan.

Indices bounced back, jerking, stuttering up steeply — about as steep as they, on average, had fallen throughout most of February, though the volatility is decidedly less. The DJIA has already made good 50% of its Feb loss; the N225 goes alongside.
The DAX, which performed marginally better (IIRC) then is more equivocal. The gov’t is taking its tiiiiiiiime[de:] as regards HRE; they think about having made their mind up whether to exercise their damn[de:] constitutional … read more

The Wall Street Journal has a rather strict access policy to its archives. Regarding a particularly fascinating piece from some 40 days ago, you will need archival access, which is for example unavailable on the sometimes-helpful BugMeNot.
But you can access WSJ archival material via many university libraries. And in this day and age, there is likely to be a helpful student around in the States or the EU or or China or India or Indonesia or Russia or Brazil … read more