".. alleged misdemeanours cited by complainants he had never met or who falsely claimed were his patients. Making complaints is so simple, you see; it is just a click away .."
This strikes me as an institutional and governmental form of one that many methods of female-aggression, reputational destruction and that lacks honor, virtue, Justice, accountability, and so should always be assumed false. So much like some vile vicious hate-filled virtueless uncorrectable psychotic lying vindictive fatherless Witch-raised delusional destructive woman that uses the Witch-Wisper-Web to target someone and as likely to create a mob of now widespread similarly Sick women that coordinate ongoing attacks that the victims often never understands why or where from .. I expect such widespread man-hating toxic environment where mix sexes is the rule and where men are forced to suffer being abused without methods to stop or prevent female-hatefilled Justless abuse and likely the cause of young men suicides and school, workplace, and public shootings we sometimes hear about ..
.. he simply went crazy for no reason we are told, and I wonder if he happen to kill the Witch and at least some of her minions and hope that he did not kill anyone that were not part of those that were targeting and abusing him.
Super article, thanks. By coincidence I know Mark Carney. He was once my colleague and friend as a Goldman Sachs economist; I later tried to hire him but he moved on to bigger things. Through training, temperament, connections and experience he has become an exemplar of a new kind of top-down governance. It marries Orwell's 1984 to Huxley's Brave New World: Big Brother with a much kinder, prettier multi-national, multi-racial, multi-gender face.
Sadly, Trump's 51st state bombast won Mark a victory he did not deserve, and which oddly stands to sacrifice many of the values that Canadians once prized. For example, Canada developed one of the finest immigration systems in the world, welcoming the high-skilled and eager-to-assimilate and discouraging the rest in ways that reduced income inequality, bridged ethnic divides, and won favor from the Canadian-born. Now it's indulging more in the reverse, while faulting critics for bad attitudes, and Carney has pledged more.
Your post/comment is slightly more interesting than the article, given that you and Carney worked for Goldman Sachs. Carney left Goldman S. just before they (Maybe you as well.) sold the American investor population something like 88 Billion dollars worth of CDO's (Collateralized Debt Obligations) which Steve Carroll's character in THE BIG SHORT described as "dog doo-doo wrapped in cat doo-doo"!!! But even though Carney wasn't involved in the 2008 economic meltdown, his company and others promoting such risky "investments", almost brought down the whole U.S. banking system because of those way too risky subprime mortgage investments.
Now Carney likes to brag about his private sector experience and public service experience with the Bank of Canada and Bank of England --- as if he was somehow personally responsible for "guiding Canada through the 2008 economic crisis" which his own former "private sector company" (Goldman Sachs) actually helped cause by selling a "product" which actually precipitated the crisis and where "investors" (read "suckers") lost billions upon billions of dollars of wealth.
So question:- Were you still employed by Goldman Sachs while they were setting up the 2008 financial crisis, or had you left that firm and, thereafter profited from shorting the bad investments peddled by your previous employer? [I mean 2 questions obviously.]
I left Goldman in 1995. I subsequently had window seats on the biggest financial crises of the next 15 years, including the one described in The Big Short (great movie, shallow analysis but with some well-deserved barbs). I have written three books and many articles on the systematic underestimation of financial crisis risks and how this could and should be rectified, with no discernible impact.
So you are the fellow who wrote "Pandora’s Risk: Uncertainty at the Core of Finance" and "Iceberg Risk: An Adventure in Portfolio Theory." Hope you are and the titles of both books which suggest "systematic underestimation" (of the 80% of icebergs that are not seen above the waterline and exactly how "uncertain" the results of most investments may be) also indicate that you ARE that person.
So my 2nd question was:- Did you make any money (e.g. "shorting something" or buying something else during these crises) from your window seat on the "financial crises of the next 15 years" which went up to 2010?
Now other questions. What did you want to hire Mark Carney to do? Given that he left Goldman Sachs, in 2003, also WHEN did you want to hire him? Did you also write "Calculus For The Curious"? So many questions, so little time,
Wait a minute. There you are at MINDING THE CAMPUS talking about teaching calculus "without fear" and making calculus "engaging, exciting, and entertaining". So you almost certainly wrote Calculus For The Curious. Interesting guy,
Fyi I fault the regulatory framework that encouraged the risky hierarchy of CDOs more than the banks who hawked them. In the ensuing panic, US regulators treated Lehman too harshly and Goldman too leniently. But that wasn't Carney's fault. I think Mark Carney worked constructively to assist recovery from the 2008 crisis even though I consider some of the solutions too partial and short-sighted. My main concern now is that he's too prone to steer the ship of state in the direction it's already going, with too little attention to needed change of course.
Canada has had a long-standing difficulty with STEM talent. It has, or had, some reasonable training programs. But for decades or even over a century, it then promptly and gladly exported all its trained and promising talent to the UK, to the EU, to the US, to Australia and other locations.
My own graduating class is entirely in the US. The class that graduated the year before also went to the US. The graduating class the year after did the same.
The Canada Chairs, meant to entice world-class Canadians back to Canadian universities, have been repurposed to promote woke nonsense. White males, and in particular Jewish white males, were thrown out of these positions. Having these kinds of people holding these chairs did not look good to the "woke mob".
I have friends who are Canadian academics in STEM fields. All of their students leave for the US upon graduation. And it has been this way for many years at this point.
Alexander Graham Bell's family, and Edison's family and the founder of Texas Instruments Cecil Green's family all had some connection to Canada. So does Elon Musk, who holds a Canadian passport, I believe. And yet, which country benefited from the genius of these men? It was not Canada.
My mentor returned to Canada to take up a Canada Chair. He was treated like garbage by the other faculty. This person has dozens or even over 100 patents to his name. Some of these protected IP worth many billions. Others protected IP worth much more.
He had an idea for a new patent. He promptly brought it to the lawyer in the IP office at his academic institution, as he was required. He was cursed and thrown out of the office by the lawyer, who said the idea was garbage and that he was stupid. Of course, the lawyer has never actually successfully "prosecuted" a patent, and certainly not one that was of any value. The lawyer and the IP office are just there "for show". This is all performative theatre. It is all nonsense, and smoke and mirrors.
I have spoken to the Alumni Association bureaucrats at my undergraduate school in Canada. They were uncharacteristically rude (for Canadians) and dismissive of any Canadian like myself that lived south of the 49th. I was sort of shocked. They brandish the woke agenda, such as supposedly favoring First Nations people, like a weapon, even using it against me, someone of autochthonous heritage. And this from someone who is so whitey-white that one could scream. But since she felt she "owned" the issue, she could chastise someone of the supposedly protected class, like myself. It was a charade and a disgrace. The entire thing is a farce.
I had thought about moving back to Canada. But until I see some positive movement, I do not think I will bother. Friends who moved back after retiring are not so happy that they did. Everything that made Canada great is in trouble, like Health Canada.
Carney speaks a good game about moving Canada away from primary industries and building on Canadian brainpower. But first, he has to recognize that Canada has been enthusiastically exporting most of its brainpower for a long, long time. To entice us back, and the potential massive economic benefits that might follow, he has to make the place attractive. And so far, I have my doubts that he will.
In July 2023 my wife and I visited the "Indigenous Voices of Today: Knowledge, Trauma, Resilience" exhibit at the McCord Stewart museum in Montreal . I found it enthralling, until i heard the fanciful claim that the native peoples lived in such harmony with wildlife that the latter surrendered their lives voluntarily to feed them. After that all I could do was marvel at the peak wokeness of anyone who would believe that, much less show t to paying visitors and expect them not to laugh.
Oh dear...Look, I think it is nice to track some of the contributions to natural medicines, or lifestyle accommodations for different environments, or other knowledge of assorted aboriginal groups. It should NOT be a central part of STEM. It might be of interest in the history of STEM, or something, but that is about it.
Every human, whether from an indigenous background or not, from whatever ethnic or racial category they are, can contribute to STEM. There is something for everyone.
However, having assorted woke nincompoops spewing "politically-correct" fantasy narratives is not particularly helpful. They will drive away kids with talent, if anything. We want to recruit and train and retain this talent, if we can, not push them away!
We are involved in a grand enterprise in STEM. It is noble, it is exciting, it is thrilling, it is challenging. We do not do a great job of presenting our work, always. I think if I get access to enough resources with my efforts, we need to consider some improved public outreach and engagement.
But for now, I just want us to hold on as we go through this budget turmoil situation in the US. I believe that things will settle down, but there is a LOT of deadwood in our institutions and needless overhead in our processes.
I do a fair amount of work in Canada in working class traditional Anglo French Canadian environments. These folks are sick and tired of what Canada has become and seem engaged in a competition on which flag/bumper sticker they like more...F..k Trudeau...and Trump flags of various sorts. These folks welcome the resistance to woke stupidity the working class in America is restoring to prominence...and are glad when it slips across the borders despite the professional and "new" Canadians resistance to it.
Canada, the UK and most of the EU nations are well on their way to suppressing free speech much like Russia, Iran and China. The question we in the US must ask ourselves is how long before we realize that we can no longer be allies with those that don’t share our love of freedom.
Update your calendar Dave. It was you Americans that started "wokism" by adopting European post-Marxist, post-Modernism in your universities. The academics don't like freedom. They don't even like America, Americans who are not academic quasi-Marxists do not love freedom either. They love fast food, cheap food of high quality, pornography, sex, drugs, rock'n roll, country music, football, health rituals, money and selfies --- most of which are highly addictive and bad for your overall health. Get with the 21st century DAVE!
Kevin: I feel sorry for you if you can’t distinguish between academics “canceling” people for stupid woke reasons and governments jailing people for speaking. The big difference between our countries is called the First Amendment. You folks should try it.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Related Liberal achievements include segregation of indigenous from other Canadians, while granting them vast public areas where they can continue to be impoverished and isolated, and at the mercy of an autocracy of alleged chiefs. All the while, of course, of vilifying non-indigenous Canadians as "colonial settlers" who do not really belong here.
As well, they are apparently trying to finish the job of dealing with Canadian Jews. Remember the famous Canadian government judgement, "None is too many"? That is the current feeling among the federal, provincial, and municipal governments. Jihadis and other haters have been free rein to occupy, vandalize, shoot at, and intimidate Jewish schools, houses of worship, stores, and individuals caught alone. Remind you of anyplace or time?
Thank you for this. If you want to get even more depressed, know the cultural institutions beat the STEM by a mile. I invite you to read my first essay and you'll get the big picture.
Of course the cultural institutions did. It is the slow march through the institutions. STEM is almost "by definition" the last to be subjected to cultural Marxism or the oppression of "newer" Marxist classes by "older" simple differences.
It started out with capitalists oppressing/exploiting the proletariat. Simple enough. But now it has "progressed" (the true meaning of "progressivism") to White, Patriarchal, Heterosexual, Moneyed Males oppressing and/or exploiting BIPOC, anarchical, gender-fluid/gender-diverse "Genders", including women, and, FINALLY, the poor --- especially indigenous or black, lesbian or gay, but even more especially transgender, Marxists or Anarchists on welfare (or financed by China or Iran or some drug cartel or other).
Being all of the former, I am SO DEPRESSED by all the folks that I am oppressing/exploiting, who know nothing of how devious I am --- (followed by insane-evil-cackling). But what can you expect from evil geniuses? We can't really be depressed given all the evil cackling we do in our laboratories, medical offices, math classes, or engineering businesses or courses!
Happy Father's Day to all you oppressive, patriarchal, pusillanimous PADRES out there!
".. alleged misdemeanours cited by complainants he had never met or who falsely claimed were his patients. Making complaints is so simple, you see; it is just a click away .."
This strikes me as an institutional and governmental form of one that many methods of female-aggression, reputational destruction and that lacks honor, virtue, Justice, accountability, and so should always be assumed false. So much like some vile vicious hate-filled virtueless uncorrectable psychotic lying vindictive fatherless Witch-raised delusional destructive woman that uses the Witch-Wisper-Web to target someone and as likely to create a mob of now widespread similarly Sick women that coordinate ongoing attacks that the victims often never understands why or where from .. I expect such widespread man-hating toxic environment where mix sexes is the rule and where men are forced to suffer being abused without methods to stop or prevent female-hatefilled Justless abuse and likely the cause of young men suicides and school, workplace, and public shootings we sometimes hear about ..
.. he simply went crazy for no reason we are told, and I wonder if he happen to kill the Witch and at least some of her minions and hope that he did not kill anyone that were not part of those that were targeting and abusing him.
Super article, thanks. By coincidence I know Mark Carney. He was once my colleague and friend as a Goldman Sachs economist; I later tried to hire him but he moved on to bigger things. Through training, temperament, connections and experience he has become an exemplar of a new kind of top-down governance. It marries Orwell's 1984 to Huxley's Brave New World: Big Brother with a much kinder, prettier multi-national, multi-racial, multi-gender face.
Sadly, Trump's 51st state bombast won Mark a victory he did not deserve, and which oddly stands to sacrifice many of the values that Canadians once prized. For example, Canada developed one of the finest immigration systems in the world, welcoming the high-skilled and eager-to-assimilate and discouraging the rest in ways that reduced income inequality, bridged ethnic divides, and won favor from the Canadian-born. Now it's indulging more in the reverse, while faulting critics for bad attitudes, and Carney has pledged more.
Your post/comment is slightly more interesting than the article, given that you and Carney worked for Goldman Sachs. Carney left Goldman S. just before they (Maybe you as well.) sold the American investor population something like 88 Billion dollars worth of CDO's (Collateralized Debt Obligations) which Steve Carroll's character in THE BIG SHORT described as "dog doo-doo wrapped in cat doo-doo"!!! But even though Carney wasn't involved in the 2008 economic meltdown, his company and others promoting such risky "investments", almost brought down the whole U.S. banking system because of those way too risky subprime mortgage investments.
Now Carney likes to brag about his private sector experience and public service experience with the Bank of Canada and Bank of England --- as if he was somehow personally responsible for "guiding Canada through the 2008 economic crisis" which his own former "private sector company" (Goldman Sachs) actually helped cause by selling a "product" which actually precipitated the crisis and where "investors" (read "suckers") lost billions upon billions of dollars of wealth.
So question:- Were you still employed by Goldman Sachs while they were setting up the 2008 financial crisis, or had you left that firm and, thereafter profited from shorting the bad investments peddled by your previous employer? [I mean 2 questions obviously.]
Kevin
I left Goldman in 1995. I subsequently had window seats on the biggest financial crises of the next 15 years, including the one described in The Big Short (great movie, shallow analysis but with some well-deserved barbs). I have written three books and many articles on the systematic underestimation of financial crisis risks and how this could and should be rectified, with no discernible impact.
So you are the fellow who wrote "Pandora’s Risk: Uncertainty at the Core of Finance" and "Iceberg Risk: An Adventure in Portfolio Theory." Hope you are and the titles of both books which suggest "systematic underestimation" (of the 80% of icebergs that are not seen above the waterline and exactly how "uncertain" the results of most investments may be) also indicate that you ARE that person.
So my 2nd question was:- Did you make any money (e.g. "shorting something" or buying something else during these crises) from your window seat on the "financial crises of the next 15 years" which went up to 2010?
Now other questions. What did you want to hire Mark Carney to do? Given that he left Goldman Sachs, in 2003, also WHEN did you want to hire him? Did you also write "Calculus For The Curious"? So many questions, so little time,
Wait a minute. There you are at MINDING THE CAMPUS talking about teaching calculus "without fear" and making calculus "engaging, exciting, and entertaining". So you almost certainly wrote Calculus For The Curious. Interesting guy,
Kevin
Fyi I fault the regulatory framework that encouraged the risky hierarchy of CDOs more than the banks who hawked them. In the ensuing panic, US regulators treated Lehman too harshly and Goldman too leniently. But that wasn't Carney's fault. I think Mark Carney worked constructively to assist recovery from the 2008 crisis even though I consider some of the solutions too partial and short-sighted. My main concern now is that he's too prone to steer the ship of state in the direction it's already going, with too little attention to needed change of course.
Canada has had a long-standing difficulty with STEM talent. It has, or had, some reasonable training programs. But for decades or even over a century, it then promptly and gladly exported all its trained and promising talent to the UK, to the EU, to the US, to Australia and other locations.
My own graduating class is entirely in the US. The class that graduated the year before also went to the US. The graduating class the year after did the same.
The Canada Chairs, meant to entice world-class Canadians back to Canadian universities, have been repurposed to promote woke nonsense. White males, and in particular Jewish white males, were thrown out of these positions. Having these kinds of people holding these chairs did not look good to the "woke mob".
I have friends who are Canadian academics in STEM fields. All of their students leave for the US upon graduation. And it has been this way for many years at this point.
Alexander Graham Bell's family, and Edison's family and the founder of Texas Instruments Cecil Green's family all had some connection to Canada. So does Elon Musk, who holds a Canadian passport, I believe. And yet, which country benefited from the genius of these men? It was not Canada.
My mentor returned to Canada to take up a Canada Chair. He was treated like garbage by the other faculty. This person has dozens or even over 100 patents to his name. Some of these protected IP worth many billions. Others protected IP worth much more.
He had an idea for a new patent. He promptly brought it to the lawyer in the IP office at his academic institution, as he was required. He was cursed and thrown out of the office by the lawyer, who said the idea was garbage and that he was stupid. Of course, the lawyer has never actually successfully "prosecuted" a patent, and certainly not one that was of any value. The lawyer and the IP office are just there "for show". This is all performative theatre. It is all nonsense, and smoke and mirrors.
I have spoken to the Alumni Association bureaucrats at my undergraduate school in Canada. They were uncharacteristically rude (for Canadians) and dismissive of any Canadian like myself that lived south of the 49th. I was sort of shocked. They brandish the woke agenda, such as supposedly favoring First Nations people, like a weapon, even using it against me, someone of autochthonous heritage. And this from someone who is so whitey-white that one could scream. But since she felt she "owned" the issue, she could chastise someone of the supposedly protected class, like myself. It was a charade and a disgrace. The entire thing is a farce.
I had thought about moving back to Canada. But until I see some positive movement, I do not think I will bother. Friends who moved back after retiring are not so happy that they did. Everything that made Canada great is in trouble, like Health Canada.
Carney speaks a good game about moving Canada away from primary industries and building on Canadian brainpower. But first, he has to recognize that Canada has been enthusiastically exporting most of its brainpower for a long, long time. To entice us back, and the potential massive economic benefits that might follow, he has to make the place attractive. And so far, I have my doubts that he will.
In July 2023 my wife and I visited the "Indigenous Voices of Today: Knowledge, Trauma, Resilience" exhibit at the McCord Stewart museum in Montreal . I found it enthralling, until i heard the fanciful claim that the native peoples lived in such harmony with wildlife that the latter surrendered their lives voluntarily to feed them. After that all I could do was marvel at the peak wokeness of anyone who would believe that, much less show t to paying visitors and expect them not to laugh.
Oh dear...Look, I think it is nice to track some of the contributions to natural medicines, or lifestyle accommodations for different environments, or other knowledge of assorted aboriginal groups. It should NOT be a central part of STEM. It might be of interest in the history of STEM, or something, but that is about it.
Every human, whether from an indigenous background or not, from whatever ethnic or racial category they are, can contribute to STEM. There is something for everyone.
However, having assorted woke nincompoops spewing "politically-correct" fantasy narratives is not particularly helpful. They will drive away kids with talent, if anything. We want to recruit and train and retain this talent, if we can, not push them away!
We are involved in a grand enterprise in STEM. It is noble, it is exciting, it is thrilling, it is challenging. We do not do a great job of presenting our work, always. I think if I get access to enough resources with my efforts, we need to consider some improved public outreach and engagement.
But for now, I just want us to hold on as we go through this budget turmoil situation in the US. I believe that things will settle down, but there is a LOT of deadwood in our institutions and needless overhead in our processes.
I do a fair amount of work in Canada in working class traditional Anglo French Canadian environments. These folks are sick and tired of what Canada has become and seem engaged in a competition on which flag/bumper sticker they like more...F..k Trudeau...and Trump flags of various sorts. These folks welcome the resistance to woke stupidity the working class in America is restoring to prominence...and are glad when it slips across the borders despite the professional and "new" Canadians resistance to it.
Canada, the UK and most of the EU nations are well on their way to suppressing free speech much like Russia, Iran and China. The question we in the US must ask ourselves is how long before we realize that we can no longer be allies with those that don’t share our love of freedom.
Update your calendar Dave. It was you Americans that started "wokism" by adopting European post-Marxist, post-Modernism in your universities. The academics don't like freedom. They don't even like America, Americans who are not academic quasi-Marxists do not love freedom either. They love fast food, cheap food of high quality, pornography, sex, drugs, rock'n roll, country music, football, health rituals, money and selfies --- most of which are highly addictive and bad for your overall health. Get with the 21st century DAVE!
Kevin: I feel sorry for you if you can’t distinguish between academics “canceling” people for stupid woke reasons and governments jailing people for speaking. The big difference between our countries is called the First Amendment. You folks should try it.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The English are putting people in jail for saying the "wrong" thing. It has gone farther than you seem to realize.
Related Liberal achievements include segregation of indigenous from other Canadians, while granting them vast public areas where they can continue to be impoverished and isolated, and at the mercy of an autocracy of alleged chiefs. All the while, of course, of vilifying non-indigenous Canadians as "colonial settlers" who do not really belong here.
As well, they are apparently trying to finish the job of dealing with Canadian Jews. Remember the famous Canadian government judgement, "None is too many"? That is the current feeling among the federal, provincial, and municipal governments. Jihadis and other haters have been free rein to occupy, vandalize, shoot at, and intimidate Jewish schools, houses of worship, stores, and individuals caught alone. Remind you of anyplace or time?
Thank you for this. If you want to get even more depressed, know the cultural institutions beat the STEM by a mile. I invite you to read my first essay and you'll get the big picture.
Of course the cultural institutions did. It is the slow march through the institutions. STEM is almost "by definition" the last to be subjected to cultural Marxism or the oppression of "newer" Marxist classes by "older" simple differences.
It started out with capitalists oppressing/exploiting the proletariat. Simple enough. But now it has "progressed" (the true meaning of "progressivism") to White, Patriarchal, Heterosexual, Moneyed Males oppressing and/or exploiting BIPOC, anarchical, gender-fluid/gender-diverse "Genders", including women, and, FINALLY, the poor --- especially indigenous or black, lesbian or gay, but even more especially transgender, Marxists or Anarchists on welfare (or financed by China or Iran or some drug cartel or other).
Being all of the former, I am SO DEPRESSED by all the folks that I am oppressing/exploiting, who know nothing of how devious I am --- (followed by insane-evil-cackling). But what can you expect from evil geniuses? We can't really be depressed given all the evil cackling we do in our laboratories, medical offices, math classes, or engineering businesses or courses!
Happy Father's Day to all you oppressive, patriarchal, pusillanimous PADRES out there!
I know what you mean, first hand. I've been there and out, too!
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/heresy
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-institutional-suppression-of
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/when-omission-becomes-design-bureaucratic