http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ open source intelligence en-us rmb@dymaxionweb.com 2008-05-19T15:23:21-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2008_05_19.html The Apotheosis of Deal Making For Ben Bernanke and the Fed these have been bare knuckle flying days. Never has the dominant central bank moved so radically into a new orbit as has the US Fed this year. Conversely,... ]]> 5848@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ Federal Reserve 2008-05-19T15:23:21-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2008_04_17.html Moral Hazard is a term of art, it has an old fashioned kind of zing to it, like a Jane Austin novel where the cardinal points are attraction, marriage, pound sterling per year, and caddish behavior (a seducer runs off... ]]> 5847@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ Federal Reserve 2008-04-17T13:47:52-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2008_03_19.html Even as this winter pushes into Spring there is little bright to see other than the buds of crocuses and daffodils pushing their way through the soil here in Washington. A few days ago a group of top drawer Wall... ]]> 5846@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ Federal Reserve 2008-03-19T18:29:23-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2008_01_23.html ]]> 5843@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ Markets 2008-01-23T14:21:03-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2007_12_03.html We have, it seems, evolved a political/media system that nearly guarantees no remedies until the damage has been done, the scoundrels have safely buried the loot, and there is a full blown crisis on hand. It's not just the politicians... ]]> 5841@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ Media 2007-12-03T17:03:54-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2007_09_29.html If you haven't noticed, Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chief has been as busy as a hero in a Univision telenovela as he makes the circuit plugging his new book. Greenspan, once one of the most powerful men on... ]]> 5792@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ 2007-09-29T14:40:38-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2007_07_27.html ]]> 5699@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ 2007-07-27T16:40:56-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2007_06_02.html Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is... ]]> 5587@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ 2007-06-02T15:36:35-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2007_03_15.html The Case for WMD In Washington, the hypocrisy often runs thicker than the Anacostia River. This week, it even surpassed the sludge rate at the Blue Point Water Treatment Plant. As soon as news of Scooter Libby's conviction was... ]]> 5417@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ 2007-03-15T13:16:45-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2007_01_27.html Hieronymus Bosch, click for closer look From One Speech to Another It was. Katie Couric said, the most important speech of his presidency. He delivered it with all the poignancy of voice recognition software in a tone, more somber,... ]]> 5295@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ Trends 2007-01-27T13:01:57-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2006_12_18.html ]]> 5184@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ Media 2006-12-18T14:44:57-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2006_11_01.html This is beginning to feel an awful lot like Vietnam, that haunting chapter that just doesn't want to close. The world, we all know, has made many turns since but it's as if all those names carved in the... ]]> 5071@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ 2006-11-01T14:58:15-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2006_10_11.html ]]> 5037@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ 2006-10-11T17:46:26-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2006_09_01.html In his 1999 film, Moloch, Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov recreates a weekend visit by Adolf Hitler and entourage to his Bavarian mountain retreat, Berchtesgaden. It is late autumn of 1942 and the Fuhrer, fickle, impotent and prematurely aging, passes a... ]]> 4970@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ 2006-09-01T15:47:03-05:00 http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/archives/2006_06_25.html The Big Squeeze: Peak Oil and the Global Climate Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is bringing the word to many Americans about something of which there is little dispute in the scientific community: global climate change can no longer... ]]> 4836@http://www.dymaxionweb.com/dymaxionweb/ 2006-06-25T16:17:25-05:00