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Very good article by Simon Johnson: The Quiet Coup		23 Apr 09
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The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government-a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time. www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice

Bad banks are unfair and a huge risk our kids will still pay for!

23 Apr 09

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As a German I’am allowed to say this. Our government is about to gamble on 500-1000 billion EURs when creating a bad bank. With a high probability a huge chunk of this tax money will be gone forever .. and nobody informs the public (as usual). This madness has to stop.

There are valid alternatives out there as outlined by George Soros: creation of good banks.

Welcome hyperinflation in the next 2-5 years. Good night Germany.

smaz: small strings encryption library		06 Apr 09
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github.com/antirez/smaz/tree/master github.com/antirez/smaz/blob/45c64a774fa62ed9d8cd37b4157cf63be8c6137d/README

Updated UK house prices in ounces of gold		04 Apr 09
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UK gold prices could drop below the 100 oz target. House values will even fall further as the gov’t won’t be able to afford social/welfare rents. gold.approximity.com/since1968/UK_House_Prices_in_Gold.html

Cool hypertable freelance projects or permanent jobs		01 Apr 09
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If you are a hypertable expert and want a true challenge .. onsite (DFW, TX, USA) or via remote contact me at armin at personifi dot com. Looking forward to build a great team to kick ass!

Good video for the financial crises		28 Mar 09
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This could be a software company, or a nice government of a nice country. m94asr.mymovi.es/-fun/monkeys-6.wmv

FTSE100: Gold Ratio

08 Mar 09

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Anybody else seeing a trend here?

gold.approximity.com/since1999/FTSE100-Gold-Ratio.html

nonlocking memcache client		02 Mar 09
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github.com/bcg/memcache-client/tree/master

localmemcache		02 Mar 09
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Efficiently sharing a hashtable between processes on a local Unix machine. github.com/sck/localmemcache/tree/master

Approximity gold charts going back to 1968

16 Feb 09

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Tom updated all the charts, including inflation adjusted prices and indices.

gold.approximity.com/since1968/

I really love the big peak created by the Hunts :-)

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