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Inflate the Debt Away: Why Are Italian Interest Rates Climbing?
Italian interest rates are climbing because it’s feared that, should Greece leave the euro, Italy might follow suit, making the value of Italian bonds held by investors zero. That’s right, zero. Wolfgang Munchau at Spiegel Online explains: If Greece leaves … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, debt crisis, europe, Greece, inflation, Italy, spain
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Paul Krugman’s Advice to Italy and Spain: Inflate and Stimulate
Paul Krugman continues to think that what’s going on in Greece, Italy, and Spain says nothing—nothing!—about the political culture surrounding welfare statism in Europe and everything about the way the euro ties the hands of those making monetary policy: Japan is much more deeply … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, economics, economy, europe, Great Depression 2.0, Greece, Italy, Paul Krugman, predictions, spain
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A Fresco Painting from Pompeii Paired with Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom Window (and One of Her Poems)
A bedroom fresco? Whose bedroom? Source: Spiegel And here’s Emily Dickinson’s bedroom window: Dickinson’s bedroom was at her family’s Amherst homestead. Emily’s room was on the second story of their home. Here’s one of her poems: I felt a Cleaving in my … Continue reading
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Tagged bedrooms, defamiliarization, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's bedroom, Emily Dickinson's bedroom window, Italy, love, poetry, Pompeii, Rome
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Gore Vidal on the Romans: “They don’t care if you live or die. They’re like cats.”
Gore Vidal makes a cameo appearance in Federico Fellini’s Roma (1972):
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Primo Levi and Buna-Monowitz Concentration Camp
Italian Jew, Primo Levi, was a concentration camp survivor (he had been at Buna-Monowitz). His words below come from his poem, “Buna”, which he penned in December of 1945: Torn feet and cursed earth, The long line in the gray morning. The … Continue reading
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You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe?: An Albrecht Durer Portrait of a Young Venetian Renaissance Woman
Albrecht Durer, painting during the European Renaissance, gives us a striking image of the “new” woman of his time. Here is no humble devotee to medieval religious orders, eyes cast downward and veiled before men, but someone simultaneously displaying herself … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, art, Christianity, feminism, Islam, Italy, life, Nuns, paganism, poetry, Venice, women
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Tomb Decorated with Hunting and Fishing Images, Italy 520 BCE
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Tagged ancient Italy, archeology, artifacts, death, fishing, history, hunting, Italy, life, Santi Tafarella
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Bust of a Medici Family Member
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Prometheus Unbound 