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Eugenio Benetazzo: Pseudo-economics, pseudo-finance, and pseudo-politics
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He calls himself the first and only Italian financial preacher.
Like a fundamentalist evangelical Christian preacher, he warns of the imminent end of the world as we know it. He blames capitalism, America, the financial system, and globalisation among others.
His conclusions are backed by imaginary scientific analysis.
If you have read (and understood) an introductory economics textbook. You’ll find this either useless, entertaining, or disturbing.
If you know nothing about economics and you want to believe, you’ll like it and you’ll start counting the days left to the financial apocalypse.
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Di Pietro on YouTube
Leave a CommentAntonio Di Pietro, the current Italian Minister of Infrastructures, has started a weekly vidcast on YouTube where he talks about the issues discussed in the Italian Parliament that week. Notable initiative.
Leave a CommentItalian calendars
In Italy every year many companies and magazines publish calendars that in many countries, certainly in the UK, would be considered soft-core porn. In the country this is quite an event surrounded by an unbelievable amount of media coverage.
The calendar by Pirelli, a rubber and tyres manufacturer, is famous since the 60s for proposing classy shots that stand out from the “just babes” pictures in other calendars. Photographers consider being chosen to take pictures for the calendar a one of the highest points in their career and so the do the models that they photograph.
In recent years, Lavazza, a coffee producer, has blown everyone out of the water publishing the coolest, classiest, and visually impressive calendars yet.
At the other end of the scale there is with no doubt the calendar published by Cofani Funebri, a coffin manufacturer.
Have a look:
- Lavazza
- Pirelli
- Cofani funebri
- Other calendars
