Marcello Foa president of Rai
Of Matthew Castagna
Yesterday, the journalist Marcello Foa was nominated president of Rai. Our site www.agerecontra.it hosted, over the years, numerous of his articles. First those written for The newspaper e, in the last period, in those of his address book are Il Giornale.it relating to foreign policy and, Then, those relating to the so-called “fake news”. Reason for pride, for us, that today we see him at the top of one of the most important companies in Italy.
Il 20 September he should have been our guest, a Verona, for a conference on “Sovereignty or Europeanism?”. Ora, the prestigious and important position will not allow him to be present, more than understandable. I have always had respect for Dr. Foa for many of his ideas, openly sovereignist, for his Montanellian style, for his knowledge of dynamics of communication and the correct use of social media. a teacher, for me, on these topics. When I asked him if he was available to participate in the conference, I found a helpful person, gentile, a serious and rigorous professional, calm and prepared. As I expected, having followed him for some time and read his books. Read More
Austerity? Nonsense, word of the ECB
Of Roberto Pecchioli
Source: Heretically
Consulting foreign newspapers broadens your horizon. Far from our home journalism, busy rummaging through CVs or fueling fascist hunts - now it's the Minister of the Family's turn Lorenzo Fontana – we can read interesting news carefully hidden from us. An example is the European Central Bank report entitled “On the sources of economic cycles. Implications for DSGE models.” The acronym means General Equilibrium of Stochastic Dynamics. In the initiatory jargon of economists, stochastic stands for probabilistic, and talking about probable scenarios is already a nice bath of humility on the part of the snooty masters of histograms and mathematical models. Economists are very good at explaining in retrospect how things did not go as they had predicted. Il report of the ECB follows the opposite path, a commendable example of realism and concrete research. Read More