Stories and News

Stories and News No. 240 This morning I read a news that has the intent to be alarming . Well, of course, it does not need a genius for that. It is not odd that there is the word alarm in the article. If you also read terms like terrorist and Al-Qaeda , that is enough to agitate your heart, right? But let's concentrate our attention to the facts, which basically are two. The first one regards the last Travel Alert on Europe which actually indicates potential risks. The second consists of some revelations by U.S. channel Fox News , that - following the previous release, claims that some intelligence sources have indicated as possible targets the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame in Paris , the central station and the television tower at Alexanderplatz in Berlin and others. All among yesterday and today. Now, let’s think that I am a mistrustfull, suspicious, polemic jammer, asking what is behind in any news and that more or less stubbornly insists on considering ambiguous every so...

Silvio Berlusconi, during a press conference, released today some statements that have left me very perplexed. The Italian Prime Minister said to see strong signs of an economic restart and he added that the worst of the crisis is over . There is nothing new in this. I am convinced that this man would be able to sell a diving suit to a dolphin. The thing that struck me is that, supporting his words, Silvio cited the new OECD report on the latest composite leading indicators , which put I taly among the countries that have most improving economic situation, together with France, United Kingdom and China . "Moreover," Berlusconi said, "the crisis has hit Great Britain more than other European countries , which has no manufacturing economy like Germany or us, and we are back to third place in Europe . We are the sixth country for contributions to United Nations, so things are not going badly." I'm not an expert in economics, but in my humble opinion I ...