Posted on 06/26/2009 6:07:35 PM PDT by WhiteCastle
I have an obscure fascinating book titled "You Can't Do Business With Hitler" - written by a German businessman shortly before WWII. In it he details the profound depths of German national debt and the intricate convolutions implemented to cover it up*, and observes that the only way out of such a situation would be a global-scale war - which, obviously, happened.
National bankruptcy is always resolved in a manner which is never pretty; hyperinflation or war, pick one.
(* - One scheme that sticks with me was negotations to pay large-scale debts to Brazil with delivery of train engines, which would take so long to deliver that once the recipients discovered they were junk the issue wouldn't matter to whoever negotiated the deal.)
Winning photo!
It's interesting how many "errors" are made by the side arguing there IS/WAS global warming (e.g., the hottest year, accidently using september data for october). Further, the errors are not random, but always in the direction of favoring the "consensus" theory.
Call me a naive falsificationist, but this has a distinct, and unpleasant, odor about it.
“A while back they issued a correction — the warmest year was in the 1930s (1934 I believe).”
Yes, for the US. 1998 remains warmest for the globe.
“Call me a naive falsificationist, but this has a distinct, and unpleasant, odor about it.”
Sure does.
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