Sobre o "caso Freeport"

Parece que o problema maior é o timing, não o facto de o primeiro-ministro poder ter estado envolvido num acto de corrupção.
Parece que o nosso primeiro-ministro e todos os seus amigos confiam muito pouco no nosso sistema de justiça. (e no inglês)
Os ex-ministros de Sócrates já o ilibaram.
Vital Moreira, descontente com a "maciça violação" do segredo de justiça, pede mais violações.
O escrutínio dos responsáveis políticos pelos meios de comunicação chateia muito o pessoal daqui.

Bra padding

Chidem Kurma escreve, no ThinkMarkets:

This same political milieu created the government – the new one starting in January – that is now expected to save American automakers, shore up the financial system with hundreds of billions of dollars of bailouts and help millions of homeowners avoid foreclosure. All that means innumerable discretionary decisions, involving immense resources, to be shaped by politicians. To use a current metaphor from Boston, there’s going to be padding for lots of bras.

Vale a pena ler o artigo na íntegra.

Alguém me explica?

No blog Free Exchange, do Economist:

The evidence in Ms Postrel’s piece suggests little scope for policymakers to stop speculative bubbles from occurring. Perhaps the government can make bubbles less severe, but that would involve knowing in advance exactly how much capital a new technology requires. If the market cannot predict that, how can we expect policymakers to?

Ou, ainda, Stpehn Horwitz (via O Insurgente):

So the big news today is that the governor of Illinois has been caught doing explicitly what most politicians do with more subtlety every single day: selling off their power to the highest bidder. I can't help but note that yet another politician is indicted on corruption charges at the very same time we are handing over unprecedented power to the political class as we partially nationalize the banking system and, apparently, the Big Three auto companies.

Mania das grandezas

Berlusconi propone la regulación de Internet a nivel mundial

(via O Insurgente)