Purtroppo non riesco più a scrivere con regolarità il venerdì a causa del lavoro di cui ho parlato nei post precedenti. Quindi i pensieri di Kaos tenteranno di arrivare sempre il venerdì ma non saranno più così precisi. D’altronde, ogni tanto, rimescolare un pò le carte non è poi cos...

The macroeconomic data coming out of Estonia in recent weeks are truly shocking even in the context of the ten percent annual drop in GDP for 2009 that most observers are now forecasting. Perhaps the most evocative number of all is not the 27% year on year drop in industrial output registered in Jan...

To the National Theatre for David Hare’s one-man show on Berlin. I wasn’t at all sure what to expect, but I didn’t expect this. Quite simply, it was embarrassingly, exasperatingly awful. Hare, in person, is a fan of the southern English amateur/eccentric shtick. He makes much play ...

In 1983, Cadillac took a cleaver to the Seville’s ass in a move inspired by French Enlightenment literature. The trap was set for a young, impressionable Crazy Euro Car Boy’s heart. As......

It all started as an idle conversation in the loo. The next thing The National Bank of Hungary (NBH) and the Hungary’s Financial Supervisory Authority (PSZÃ�F) had to come out in public to declare that they were closely monitoring the status of the financial system, adding that from what they ...

Yesterday, both the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of the UK cut their benchmark interest rates to record lows. This is especially incredible in the case of the UK, whose Central Bank over 300 years old! You can see from the following chart that both Central Banks have more than made up fo...

by Claus Vistesen and Edward Hugh Most sports coaches - irrespective of whether they work in soccer, baseball, rugby or even American football - have playbooks; small books or pads filled with notes, decision rules and strategies for each and every possible situation they can envision. Of course, in...

President Barack Obama just plain rude to Britain. Don’t call us in future. :: Iain Martin We get the point, sunshine: we’re just one of many allies and you want fancy new friends. Well, the next time you need something doing, something which impinges on your national security, then try ...

Here follows a bit of demographic speculation. It’s guesswork right now, but we’ll know in a year or two if I’m right. Interesting Fact #1: birthrates tend to drop during recessions, and the drop tends to correlate with both the severity of the recession and the speed of its onset....

Spanish unemployment shot up again in February to 3.48 million in February, whilst consumer confidence took another knock amidst fears Spain’s jobless would now hit 4 million as early this summer, and maybe 4.5 million, or nearly 20% of the workforce. Right, this the latest in my monthly repor...