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...Kinsley's latest missive in TIME falls prey to one of the oldest traps in economics - Frédéric Bastiat's broken-window fallacy. Just as a broken window creates work for the glazier at the expense of the window owner, money that Kinsley hopes to inject into the economy must first be taken out of it. Add in collection costs and the usual political malfeasance, and we have a net loss to the economy. There's more: Kinsley argues that last summer's high oil prices were essentially a tax on consumers; the money just went...
...borrow money. Most of the time the answer they give is a resounding yes. Owned by the French bank Société Générale, Rusfinance is aiming to build a massive presence in Russia. Back in Paris, SocGen's chief executive Frédéric Oudéa even talks about Russia becoming the bank's second biggest market after France...
...meltdowns. Seeking a fourth term representing the 24th congressional district, Republican Tom Feeney, tainted by his 2003 golf trip to Scotland paid by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, placed 6th on Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call's top ten list of most endangered congressional incumbents. And 8th district representative, Republican Ric Keller, seeking a 5th term, is 11-points behind wealthy lawyer Alan Grayson, according to a recent Democratic poll. - By Barbara Liston/Orlando
...sense of space. Vistas overflow with color. “Contempt” is a visual feast, and only one from Godard’s formidable filmography.As one of the pioneers of the French New Wave movement, along with the likes of François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, Godard seemed to concern himself not only with subverting ideas of genre and dramatic distance, as he did with “Contempt,” but obliterating them altogether. His films are a testament to the mercurial atmosphere of French society, whose working class was emboldened by their...
...subtle, becomes the focus of the film; Binoche and Renier appear only briefly.) I think Assayas wants Hélene's loss to be felt through the rest of the picture. Her shadow, and that of her home, have to linger till the end, when Frédéric's own children spend a last weekend at the chateau, and one of them connects with its gentle spirit. That last scene gives Summer Hours its own haunting spell as well...