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A Clockwork Orange

See also Jeffrey St. Clair: Roaming Charges: How White Men Fight.

This just in: Ramses II is dead

From Art Net News:

A team of Dutch and Italian archaeologists working alongside Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities have uncovered a 3,200-year-old underground tomb complex in Saqqara.

The complex belonged to Panehsy, a steward of the temple of Amun during the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II c. 1250 BC. 

It is composed of a freestanding temple, complete with an entrance, a colonnaded courtyard, a passage leading to underground burial chambers, and three chapels....

See and hear Ramses the Second is Dead.

A bank that deserved to die. More to come?

From New York magazine:

First Republic was a rotten bank, and on Monday JPMorgan Chase bailed it out. It had been a terrible few weeks for First Republic, which is now the third-largest bank failure in U.S. history. Depositors fled. Its stock crashed 95 percent. 

After the bank got its first bailout in March, executives effectively told Wall Street that they had no right to pry into the company — an act of hubris that ultimately hastened its collapse. 

....But this probably isn’t the end of the crisis. “What’s emerged will come with collateral damage and unintended consequences,” Mohamed El-Erian wrote in a column

....There is a large contingent on Wall Street that is viewing this takeover with a sigh of relief. It could have been much worse. First, let’s just get this out of the way: This was not a 2008-style bailout. 

First Republic got a Tarantino-esque death — quite gruesome compared to the concierge euthanasia the Federal Reserve gave to SVB last month when the central bank declared it too big to fail after it had already collapsed (meaning all its deposits could be insured). 

Taxpayer money isn’t being funneled to prop up First Republic [yet],,,,