End of quarter -- are you ready for the fall?

The shape of things to come

Well, of course the numbers here are totally unscientific ... but you get the general idea I'm sure. You could look back at some of my older posts to see the shape of UK M4, if you really wanted to.


Data source: Mr Madeup

Troll summer vacation over

This Troll's brief summer vacation is now officially over, although with the baby Trolls off school for the next couple months... I hope there will be some more!

Nessie asked me to say hi to you by the way (cue bagpipes!) :

Currency Pegs

Controlling Inflation

The polyphonic prayer here, it's all around you

Oh, joys arise, the sun has come again to hold you
Sailing out the doldrums of the morning
The polyphonic prayer here, it's all around you
It's all around you out here

And if the whole world is crashing down on you
Fall through space, out of mind completely
Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
Those are the shadows far away

The falling of the whole empire, it's here to hold you
Rolling out and haunted till it sinks

Little memories, marching on
Your little feet working the machine
Will it spin? Will it soar?
My little dream working the machine

Soothe like a wave
It passes far
Closing in on the moon
From where we are

Little memories
Your little feet working the machine
Will it spin? Will it soar?
My little dream working the machine

Soothe like a wave
It passes far
Closing in on the moon
From where we are

The story of Morgan

... or, Morgan chooses to participate in the blogosphere instead.
An even more excellent choice.


I wonder how many marriages and families around the world have been kept together through the emotional and intellectual outlet of blogging? It's a bit like the 21st Century answer to the Man Shed at the allotments. Perhaps Blogger should be nominated for some kind of peace prize? :-)

Currency Evolution

Move along please, nothing to see here

Osborne for "Glass-Steagall-Lite"

Just to record the event, since I've tried to note whenever everyone else of any great import has done so, that George Osborne* has come out plublicly in favour of a sort of Glass-Steagall [almost!] arrangement.

I'm going to note it through the recycling of Jeremy Warner's thoughts, to which I don't really have much of any value to add, in The Telegraph:

----> here.



* current UK Chancellor of the Exchequer

Hsin yen pu mei

Lao Tzu:

Sincere words are not pretty.
Pretty words are not sincere.

Good people do not quarrel.
Quarrelsome people are not good.
The wise are not learned.
The learned are not wise.

The Sage is not acquisitive—
   Has enough.
By doing for others,
   Has even more
By giving to others.

Heaven's Tao
   Benefits and does not harm.
The Sage's Tao
   Acts and does not contend.

Wise words, mate.

Bitcoin Pirate Surprise!

Fancy a quickie?

Germany is to Greece, as China is to _______?

China ratings house says US defaulting

A nice problem to have!

I know what I'd do. Do you?

Not In Use

The Fishermans Tale

To our very own dearest Canberran Quean,

I believe you have the full measure of the puppetmasters.



I just wanted to thank you for all the fish. None of them have gone to waste.

Sea Within a Sea

Sea Within a Sea
Some say we walk alone
Barefoot on wicked stone no light
and sanctuary found never waits around awhile

Marching to the sea
their dreams stay in the shadows
their dreams stay firmly rooted in the shallows
See the scraping sky
See my destination there tonight

So say I walk alone barefoot
on wicked stone tonight
Will you leap to follow
Will you turn and go
Will your dreams stay rooted in the shallows

See the scraping sky
Far beyond the shallows
Far beyond the reaches of the shadows

Though youth may fade with boyhood´s cares
New fear will catch us unawares
I know it will

So you might say
the path we share is one of danger
and of fear
until the end



I hope to see you all at the summit some day ... don't get washed out to sea.

Just Do It

Not sucking on the RPG oxygen pipe only prolongs the agony of suffocation for the US gummint and economy. They're trapped in a tatty old $42.22 box full of liquidity of their own making. Freegold is the only way out.

Parsley 'gets it'

Eventually, everyone'll get it.

$IMFS

Just how much longer can this albatross keep itself suspended in the air? It sure does have some impressive staying power!

New Gold Dream