OK…so, you read fuBarrio’s chicken little, the sky really is falling proclamation and in fear you noticed that CD’s and some treasuries had perked up to 5% returns. Caution bein the better part of valor and all that, you decided to pack some away for a rainy day….Here’s what has happened to the dollar in terms [Continue]
well, the week began with a hopeful date — 7-7-07 and then ended on a Friday the 13th. Gold ended the week up, at an even 666 and nat gas was 6.66. it’s enough to make superstitious traders like fuBarrio schizophrenic….if he believed in lucky numbers. however, the only “lucky” numbers in fuBarrio’s twisted [Continue]
To be fair, the public education system is “free” (paid for with footballers’ taxes, ha ha ha) for all residents of Uruguay through PhD/MD, etc. Since the govt has taken it on itself to educate the people I found the picture above I took on the way to work mildly amusing this a.m. To those that don’t [Continue]
The last few weeks I’ve been looking around as time permits at some other Uruguay bloggers’ work. Ack!….Humbling I guess is about all I can say. When I was first trying to research Uruguay in late 2005/early 2006 there really was very little in the way of information (especially in English and/or written from a Northerner’s [Continue]
Wow….Uruguayan footballers are threatening to strike the new income tax…. This place gets more and more like the U.S. every day…Self important professional sports stars, and people with entitlement issues. Follow the link and get a load of the [Continue]
Some of you may have noticed that my writing, while more frequently lately, isn’t really full of the same rage and indignation that typically fuels my twinkie-filled meglamanical rants. And yet, I seem to be post more often….Some kind of irrefutable proof that less *is* more? Well, you may have also noticed that there are a bewildering [Continue]
just a quick note. Base metals are supposed to be dead again, right? global copper, for whatever reason, looks like it is retesting its highs. this looks a little bit like a cup and handle to me….however, one can’t be sure until it breaks through that resistance to new highs….a pretty bullish sign for a speculative [Continue]
What? I almost forgot some really big Uruguay News. Of course, not being total political nincompoops (sp?) the Uruguayan politicos lowered the VAT a “trifle” on some goods FIRST as a tradeoff for collecting an income tax. One of the really nice things about being an Uruguayan citizen and resident – no personal income [Continue]
Uruguayans love their animals. Usually with a little bit of salt, slow cooked over a wood fire…har har har…. When I first arrived in Montevideo I spent the first 3 months or so in a deperate search for a vegetarian restaurant that had somehow escaped the discovery of any of the other bloggers. Of course, veternarian offices are [Continue]
