NATO Summit protest MEGATHREAD

[garbon]

Hee, the people in our Chicago office were 'working from home' today because of that shit.

One of my clients was doing the same.

[derspiess]

Just realized I'm flying through Chicago tomorrow, not that any of this mess should affect the airport.  And it's not like you'd be able to tell any impact if there actually was any.

[Jaron]

Are those blue helmets the same ones they wore back when they still beat up hippies?

[derspiess]

Are those blue helmets the same ones they wore back when they still beat up hippies?

Good question.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Are those blue helmets the same ones they wore back when they still beat up hippies?

I think they are.

[KRonn]

Just realized I'm flying through Chicago tomorrow, not that any of this mess should affect the airport.  And it's not like you'd be able to tell any impact if there actually was any.

Say hello to any Occupodpersons you meet!   

[derspiess]

Just realized I'm flying through Chicago tomorrow, not that any of this mess should affect the airport.  And it's not like you'd be able to tell any impact if there actually was any.

Say hello to any Occupodpersons you meet!   

If I see any I'll mock them for betraying TEH PLANET by flying on a plane.

[KRonn]

Just realized I'm flying through Chicago tomorrow, not that any of this mess should affect the airport.  And it's not like you'd be able to tell any impact if there actually was any.

Say hello to any Occupodpersons you meet!   

If I see any I'll mock them for betraying TEH PLANET by flying on a plane.

   

Have fun storming the Occu-Castle!!   

[Admiral Yi]

That's nothing.  If I understand it correctly, the market types don't trust methodology.  Or at least ones that use mathematical models or statistics.  I believe they argue that testing their theories is essentially impossible.  It's sort of like creationism economics.

WTF are you talking about?

[11B4V]

That's nothing.  If I understand it correctly, the market types don't trust methodology.  Or at least ones that use mathematical models or statistics.  I believe they argue that testing their theories is essentially impossible.  It's sort of like creationism economics.

WTF are you talking about?

He dont know.

[11B4V]

Dirty, smelly Hippies.

[Sheilbh]

In the wake of the Japan quake and tsunami, the Japanese government had to roll out a massive rebuilding program which required them to roll the printers on yen. The yen would have crashed, but the G8 organized a massive attack on the yen with coordinated buying to prop it up in the international markets as an aid to Japan during the emergency and to keep the markets stable. Christine Lagarde made her name organizing the operation.

Christine Lagarde was pretty known and well-regarded before then, she'd been a leader in the Euro debt crisis for a year and was often called the best Finance Minister in Europe.  Also that was organised by the G8 Central Banks, who don't have an annual summit and aren't the political leaders, though I'm sure they were involved.  I think the Fed, BofE, BofJ and ECB would have intervened in a coordinated way anyway as they did during the financial crisis.  Again the usefulness of the G8 is apparently something that wasn't decided by them and didn't require a summit.  In that sense I think G8 is, at best, a useful shorthand for those countries.  But that's all it is, that a part of the G8 countries cooperate doesn't mean they cooperate because they have an annual summit.

[Razgovory]

That's nothing.  If I understand it correctly, the market types don't trust methodology.  Or at least ones that use mathematical models or statistics.  I believe they argue that testing their theories is essentially impossible.  It's sort of like creationism economics.

WTF are you talking about?

Austrian school.