That Was The Weak That Worked: Part I
"The best perfumes in the world are laced with something nasty." —
Rosalyn Rosenfeld (Jennifer Lawrence), American Hustle
"That was the week that was,It's over, let it go" —
Millicent Marn, "That Was The Week That Was"
And the hardest partWas letting go, not taking partWas the hardest partAnd the strangest thingWas waiting for that bell to ringIt was the strangest startI could feel it go downBittersweet, I could taste in my mouthSilver lining the cloudOh and I, I wish that I could work it out —
Coldplay, The Hardest Part
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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO
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A walk around the fringes of nance
By Grant Williams
30 December 2013
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Contents
Turkey First of Fed Taper Victims as Political Crisis Scares Investors ..........................23The Unintended Consequences of Abenomics .....................................................24Still Lying After All These Years ......................................................................25
What's Behind the Khodorkovsky Pardon? ..........................................................28U.S. Stocks: Heading for a Bubble? .................................................................30
Miss Japan Ikumi Yoshimatsu Joins Battle Against Maa in the Media .........................312013 Year in Review ...................................................................................32Moguls Rent South Dakota Addresses to Dodge Taxes Forever ..................................33Spend, Spend, Spend. Because Your Savings Aren't Worth a Damn ............................35
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Things That Make You Go
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2013 saw the passing of many beloved celebrities, but one who perhaps seemed to receive less attention than merited was Sir David Paradine Frost, who died of a heart attack, aged 74, whilst aboard the MS Queen Elizabeth, where he had been due to give a speech the following
day.
Those aboard the ship were deprived of a chance to hear the words of a journalist and broadcaster without peer in the modern world, whilst the rest of us woke to nd ourselves being reminded of the high points of his remarkable life, particularly his famous interviews with Richard Nixon, which were immortalized a few
short years ago in the stage play and subsequent movie
Frost/Nixon.
But Frost's star was set on its upward trajectory via a completely different type of vehicle when, after graduating from Cambridge University in 1962, he was selected to present a new weekly satirical review devised, produced, and directed by Ned
Sherrin and entitled
That Was The Week That Was
or, as it became colloquially known, TW3.The writing staff of TW3 was a who's who of British comedy (John Cleese, Peter Cook, Eric Sykes, and Ronnie Barker were all amongst the contributors) but also included literary greats such as Dennis Potter, Roald Dahl, and Sir John Betjemin; and some of its sketches became the
stuff of British comedy folklore.Wikipedia describes TW3 thus:
(Wikipedia): The programme is
considered a signicant element of the
satire boom in the United Kingdom in the
early 1960s. It broke ground in comedy through lampooning the establishment and political gures.
You can probably gure out why I'm a fan.
TW3 liked to point out the absurdities of the political system and take pot-shots at political
gures. If only they'd had some kind of nancial crisis in the 1960s, the symmetry would have been perfect ... but no. Instead, after a tumultuous four years between 1957 and 1961, the US, though saddled with high unemployment and huge excess capacity, embarked upon a mid-decade boom, which — hard though it is to believe — was actually helped by constructive government policy in the form of the Kennedy-Johnson tax cuts.
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