To readers and fellow film snobs:I apologize that I've been unable to contribute lately. As a result of some difficult circumstances, I haven't gathered the energy or state of mind to post more entries, including my promised second half of my ode (and reservations) to Steven Speilberg. However, that will soon change and, as they say, I'll "get back on the horn". In the interim, please enjoy my regurgitation of an earlier entry, which will be available on DVD and bluray tomorrow. I appreciate your patienc... read more »
"Sometimes the old ways are the best". Amen, 007. After 50 years, Bond's worse for wear, but still trucking. We've had numerous "reboots" (or is it "reimagining's"? I can't tell.). But Bond has returned to the basics: drinking martinis, driving Aston Martins, and exchanging puns with Q, albeit a younger, less tenured incarnation who resembles Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock more so than Desmond Llewelyn. Yet, when Bond's 23rd outing concluded, we're pretty much guaranteed that 007 is here to stay--and tr... read more »
Like the concept of Negative Interest, this is getting disturbing as the 10 Yr Treas has gone under 1.9%, as i t has on all Crises dates. WE go Davos, We got the Greek Settlement, we got the ISDA deciding WHETHER the GREEK deal is a DEFAULT. No stability here, I think. Maybe a minor patch, but the Ship of the Global Economy has its PUMPS working overtime, and any pause in the pumping will sink the COSTA CONCORDIA -> global economy even lower in the water = worrisome.Below is a depiction of the Momentum o... read more »
it is, taken from PIMCO's Feb Outlook published today, as I see it: The King of Bonds, IMO, Bill Gross of PIMCO (so aptly named) today issued his Feburary OUTLOOK LETTER, entitled Life – and Death Proposition and while the very good but somewhat superficial writers at Business Insider sub-title it for Gross's bemoaning the “end of abundance”, there is a more telling thought expressed about three “run-on” sentences from the end of the article, buried as it were. Apparently it is only an aft... read more »
