Robert Barat

"Overpriced bad-to-meh food. For an appetizer we got a grilled artichoke, which was quite good sadly, the entrees, all above $24, were rather bad. I had the trout, which was horrible; dry and bland. I…" - Robert Barat

The Occupy Crackdowns: Why Naomi Wolf Got It Wrong « Corey Robin - Robert Barat

The ECB is withholding dept relief until austerity is imposed. "The burgeoning debts of the Eurozone countries are being blamed on their large welfare states, but these social systems were set up before the 1970s, when European governments had very little national debt.Their national debts shot up, not because they spent on social services, but because they switched bankers.Before the 1970s, European governments borrowed from their own central banks.The money was effectively interest-free, since they owned the banks and got the profits back as dividends.After the European Monetary Union was established, member countries had to borrow from private banks at interest—often substantial interest... for France, at least, the total sum paid in interest since the 1970s appears to be as great as the French federal debt itself.That means that if the French government had been borrowing from its central bank all along, it could have been debt-free today." - Robert Barat