Bond Rating Agencies, Democracies and Us

A while back, over on Facebook, I asked a rhetorical question: who, exactly, voted control of several of the world's nations into the hands of companies like Moody's, Standard and Poor's and so on?

To this day, I don't remember seeing those companies named on the ballot in my federal or provincial electoral district(AKA "riding"). And unless the news from the European Union nations now under political-economic siege from those companies has been altered, I don't believe voters in those nations even suspected that the bond rating services were being voted into or out of political power either.

Well, this morning on CBC Radio One, the Sunday Edition is looking into that same question, and host Michael Enright and his crew apparently plan to ask it in a far more concrete sense than I did.

So...random stuff tonight

I bought a new monitor a week ago, one of Samsung's. Figured I'd put this off for far too long already. Works well with the MacBook, but I've yet to test it with the old Windows gear (which is indeed Old).

Been enjoying the first two instalments of the new season of Republic of Doyle. The consequences of last year's ending are playing out as they should, although the stuff going on with Tinny is mildly surprising. Mildly, compared to...

...what happened with Sarah on Little Mosque between seasons!

WTH, people? It's that hard to hold onto Carlo Rota for the last year of the show?

(No, I'm not going to explain until you've seen the episode!)

More on other stuff to come...