Que cores vestimos nós?

...
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.
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Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.
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I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.
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And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.
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Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.

Ou eu não me chame Susana

Bem, talvez mesmo só na fotografia.

Em plena turbulência económica, e num ano em que se antecipa um crescendo de turbulência social e política, os lideres europeus concentram-se no que é mais importante:

Enquanto Sarkosy garante um lugar à direita do Secretário Geral da NATO, (pormenor do compromisso conseguido: apenas quando houver câmaras na sala), rompendo a tradicional distribuição por ordem alfabética, Gordon Brown consegue uma retumbante vitória ao garantir que é o primeiro chefe de governo a ser visitado pelo novo presidente dos EUA, em detrimento do mesmo Sarkosy que também estava em bicos dos pés, como o burro do Shrek (pick moi! pick moi!).

Comentário no Eurotrib acerca de Brown: "hey, Obama changed everything: it's cool to be a vassal again."

Esta semana tem nove dias?

As galinhas têm dentes?
Qual a temperatura que faz no inferno neste momento?

The sound of silence.

Pelos vistos nenhum ouviu o outro....

Como eles dizem "Brace yourselves"

Do Blog do Krugman:

"So let’s look at the NBER business cycle data. What we see is that some of those prewar slumps were really, really long: the Panic of 1873 was followed by a recession that lasted 5 1/2 years.

And Keynes explained why: in the absence of an effective monetary or fiscal policy, a recession would have to go on until

the shortage of capital through use, decay and obsolescence causes a sufficiently obvious scarcity to increase the marginal efficiency

So this could go on for a long, long, long, long time."

Mas estes não lhe ficam nada atrás.

Nomeadamente por usarem um Marreta morto como chapéu.