Judging by his string of disasterrific movies— Independence Day , Godzilla , The Day After Tomorrow , and now, 2012 —director Roland Emmerich is a firm believer in global salvation through global destruction. Mankind, despite selfish and self-destructive impulses, is good, can be good, can come together in peace and harmony, at one with the planet that sustains it. All that needs to happen is for most of the Earth’s population to be killed off first

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Sweden’s Riksbank has taken a pro-inflationary step other central banks can only envy: negative interest rates. Don’t ask me to explain the mechanism, but the bank is now offering an effective deposit rate of negative .25%
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Volvo, Ikea, Abba, and the destruction of money…