Monday, May 08, 2017

Let's drop in on the Ship of Fools as they watch the French election results

a.k.a. "Catallaxy":


All calm and under control, then.   (Can't wait for Steve Kates to turn up, too.)

Update:

 Update 2:  for a calm survey of the actual political landscape in France, this article from The Atlantic seems pretty good.

Update 3:  struth seems to broadening his critique of France, probably due to his losing his money:




7 comments:

not trampis said...

Harsh but true

Jason Soon said...

Macron is the closest thing to a libertarian the French have had for President

Steve said...

Jason: in the same way, say, John Howard was the closest thing to being a libertarian PM here?

On an unrelated matter - I see that Taleb seems to be into Taube, paleo and working out.

Maybe he suffers from 'roid rage? Would explain a lot.

Jason Soon said...

don't be silly. Macron is a lot more of a consistent libertarian than Howard, he's a social liberal and a free market guy. libertarians should rejoice.

Jason Soon said...

"On an unrelated matter - I see that Taleb seems to be into Taube, paleo and working out."

all that is old news to anyone who reads his work

Steve said...

The point was more that, like a roid rager, he's too volatile and inconsistent for me to take too much interest in him.

not trampis said...

Macron's big prob,em maybe deregulating when the economy is weak. This exacerbates bad results whereas if one does it when the economy is humming it exacerbates good results.