A government out of touch with the general interest

Says David Maeztu re the anti-Yankee, but far more widely applicable, IP reform. The desertion of public opinion by both PP and PSOE to collaborate with proportionately insignificant peripheral nationalisms at least makes political sense: the systematic electoral underweighting of small national parties means that you’re unlikely to be able to deal profitably with them…

Quantitative easing à la catalane

Make lots of new ~euros in China and sell them under nominal price at gypsy markets. It will end in tears, but there’ll be some good stories. I too was a reluctant fan of Pedro Jota, and El Mundo is still the only MSM source to amuse me. El País is almost Calvinist-Methodist in its…