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Cyreenik Says 2011
Jul-Dec

 

• o Kim Jong-il's death: A non-event
  o Thoughts on the coming US-Pakistani Divorce: A big event (Dec 11)

• o Time of Nutcases example: Wild rumors in action
  o Acrimony ratchets up: Supercommittee fails
  o OWS = Bonus Marchers: The 30's Flashback Continues
  o The Euro-zone Crisis Grows: Conventional Solutions Still Not Working
  o How Will This Crisis of the Decade End? (Nov 11)

• o Occupy Wall Street: The return of the Bonus Marchers
  o Occupy Wall Street: The Underlying Stress is Rising (Oct 11)
• o Eurocrisis: The Underlying Stress is Rising (Sep 11)
• o The England Riots: Lost Children? Lost Enfranchisement!
  o The Stress Rises: The Time of Nutcases is still coming
  o A Shoe Drops: Austerity becomes the Crisis of the 2010's (Aug 11)
• o Flashback to 1933: It's mess with the money time!
  o It's inconceivable! ...really! Part Two -- The 2011 Norway Attacks
  o It's inconceivable! ...really! Part One -- US debt limit crisis
  o Open the Blunder Textbook... to page Dodd-Frank
  o The War on Terror is moving into the sunset
  o Casey Anthony versus James Ray
  o Blunder in Progress: "Caylee Laws"
  o The Perp Walk: Losing faith in Rule of Law (July 11)

Cyreenik Says 2011
Jan-Jun

 

• o Fracking: Picking up The Curse of Being Important
  o Blunder time coming?: Step One of Three -- Building Stress
  o Thoughts on the future of the Arab Spring revolutions (June 11)
• o Why the Jobless recovery is jobless
  o Dot-com Bubble 2: Coming Soon to an Economy Near You?
  o The Curse of Being Important: Sending out the wrong message
  o Mother's Day: Thoughts on Saving the Children
  o Thoughts on Bin Laden's Death
  o The Time of Nutcases revisited: Donald Trump
  o Another cost of The Curse of Being Important: Regulations that endanger us (May 11)
• o Oil Price Probe: Time to shoot the messenger
  o The Curse of Being Important gets worse for airlines
  o Rocks and Hard Places: The "Middle East Spring" comes to Afghanistan (Apr 11)
• o Nuclear, Financial and Supply Chain meltdowns: see The Curse of Being Important in action
  o Nuclear Panic: Godzilla is back!
  o Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Blunder in the Making
  o Crime and Enfranchisement: How they are linked (Mar 11)
• o Collectivism is back! ...and BAD!: The Wisconsin State Budget Battle
  o Thoughts on the Middle East turmoil
  o Egypt's Economy: Showing the value of Enfranchisement (Feb 11)

• o Panic and Blunder time in the Middle East
  o Russia's Permanent Blind Spot: Enfranchisement
  o Surprising good news: Obama's WSJ editorial
  o Red flag in the sunrise: US exports inflation
  o Surprise technology use: The Housing Bubble created jobs (Jan 11)

Cyreenik Says 2010
Jul-Dec

• o The Dark Side of Goat Sacrificing in Modern Times (Dec 10)
• o Wikileaks, Connecting the Dots, and modern information flow
  o A Dark Side Boom in the Counter-terrorist Industry: Agent Provocateur
  o Citizens revolt against the TSA: Are practitioners ready to lose faith?
  o Blunder: BAB: Building our next good intention bubble?
  o Blunder: Green Insanity in California
  o Blunder: Et QE2, Brute?
  o Blunder in progress: Can Congress produce an Edsel?
  (Nov 10)

• o Blunder in progress: The October Foreclosure Moratorium
  o The Phillips Curve and Quantitative Easing: Blind spots for the 70's and 10's?
  o San Fransisco and Cleveland: boom, delusion and reinvention
  o Blunder Scars: Here are some Blunder scars we are currently living with
  o Cyreenik guest appears on Skeptical Market Observer blog
  (Oct 10)
• o Blunder Scar: Fannie, Freddie and Home Mortgages
  o Blunder Scar: A Tale of Two Development Projects: WTC in NYC and CRA in LA
  o Blunder: The FM chip in cell phones.
  o Blunder: Immigration issues around the world
  (Sep 10)
• o Succession time: Will the North Korean anomaly continue?
  o Blunder Alert: The Time of Nutcases is coming
  o The Steve Slater - JetBlue Airlines Incident -- Yet another wake up call to those running the commercial flying process
  o Guilt fueled waste: Blood diamonds
  o Security versus privacy? No, security versus progress: The RIM encryption controversy
  o The Curse of Being Important: Congress micromanages airlines some more
  (Aug 10)
• o Afghan Wikileaks... Pentagon Papers... Where's the news?
  o Fannie and Freddie and the Problem of Narrative
  o Guilt-fueled Blunder: Ethanol subsidies
  o Immigration policy: Teaching Enfranchisement
  o More on Recession Dream Changing
  (Jul 10)

Cyreenik Says 2010
Jan-Jun

• o The McChrystal Blunder
  o Recession and Dream Changing: Is the Time of Nutcases coming up?
  o Japan's Lost Decade: Is America going to find it?
  o BP and Deepwater: Blunder Time is indeed upon us
  o Panic and Blunder in Kyrgyzstan
  o Health care's Curse of Being Important raises it's head again
  o SPOT -- Another example of the faith-based thinking that infuses the TSA
  o Blunder Chain growing: When airlines can't figure it out? ...The government will?
  (Jun 10)
• o Blunder Alert: Oil Spill Panic and Blunder
  o Blunder Chain Alert: The Rise of the PEO's (Professional Employment Organizations)
  o Blunder Chain Alert: North Korea shows us how not to rattle a saber.
  o Blunder Chain Alert: Bond Crisis in Europe: Great Recession Two? (May 10)
• o Blunder Alert: Bond Crisis in Europe: The next shoe in the financial crisis is dropping.
  o Blunder Alert: New Arizona Immigration Law is seriously disenfranchising
  o Blunder Alert: Obamacare: Market pricing not moving the right way? Add price controls!
  o Tea Party: The Symptom of Disconnect
  o Blunder Alert: The Vatican Pedophile Priest Blindsiding
  o Terror: American worries, Russian attacks (Apr 10)
• o The government Pay Boom
  o Thoughts on the passing of Obamacare.
  o Is there a Chinese Bubble waiting to burst?
  o Inflation's Siren Call
  o A Housing Mystery: Why Fannie and Freddie Survive?
  o What was Obama's biggest accomplishment in 2009? (Mar 10)
• o Women Working and Male Enfranchisement
  o Messing with the Money? Could be Blunder Time in North Korea (Feb 10)
• o More Thoughts on Haiti
  o Tough Love for Haiti
  o The War on Terror Marches again -- still in the wrong direction! (Jan 10)

Cyreenik Says 2009/8/7

• o Worshipping at the Altar of the Holy Metal Detector
  o Blunder time comes to Obamacare
  o Blunder Alert: EPA put in charge of climate control!
  o Thoughts on Climategate (Dec 09)
• Thoughts on recession dream changing, the Fort Hood shootings, immigration, and Thinking Green (Nov 09)
• Regulating banker pay, Balloon Boy and Letterman, the health care debate (Oct 09)
• Thoughts on the US health care mess (Jul 09)
• More thoughts on Republican Recession and thoughts on home-brew genetic engineering (May 09)
• Lynch Mob goes after AIG and Republican Recession (Mar 09)
• Australian Brushfires and Bernie Madoff's great skill (Feb 09)

• Moving beyond the War on Terror (Dec 08)
• Bubbles and busts from a Prisoners Dilemma viewpoint (Nov 08)
• Big Bad Oil Companies (Jun 08)
• Inflation Insanity: The Gas Tax Holiday (May 08)
• YFZ Ranch: the Texas polygamy colony blunder (Apr 08)
• Olympic Panic and Blunders in China (Apr 08)
• SocGen Crisis (prequil to Bernie Madoff) (Feb 08)

• Anti-predatory Lending Act of 2007 (Dec 07)
• Stop the Pain and Kill the Messenger (Aug 07)
• Easy Money and Hamas in Gaza (Jul 07)
• A report on the VT shootings (May 07)
• DaimlerChrysler, Chavez, G8 riots (Jun 07)

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