The New Market Machines Radio

On strike for better working conditions after assassination of Russian journo.

A literary meditation on the ethics and psychology of the motivated trader from the annals of Brazilian folklore: "The Horse Who Shit Money," a fable from the backlands of the Northeast.

A horse that shits money? That would be quite a money-making market machine indeed, if it were true. With a demonstration of the viola caipira from Cururu.

This, according to the NMM's army of Web-spidering newsflow audit robots, is the sand and friction impairing the perpetual motion of the global capitalist market machinery this week ...

How fast can I whip out a podcast? If I don't stop to edit out every hem, haw, and lapsus linguae, I'm definitely getting faster.

So you get to hear me breathe heavily, stumble and bumble, and growl at my wife with your news. A bit like watching the raw satellite feeds from the news network.

Breathe from the diaphragm. Project. Stop smoking.

This week in the week in review: Cross-border data privacy; hedge fund regulation; the Journal builds itself a Potemkin Village in Mexico; Senzhen business journalists caught up in a web of corruption; India's Internet filtering program run wild; and other deals, steals, and wheels within wheels.

And some traveling music to get us in the mood for our upcoming airlift to Sao Paulo (at about 20'30'').

1. Luiz Gonzaga, "Xote das Meninas"
2. John Hiatt and Randy Scruggs, "City of New Orleans"

Incidental music: Small Faces, "Wicked Messenger"; Gang of Four, "Contract"

As usual, I have not bothered to clean up all the outtakes and twists of the tongue, so spare me your derision on that score, if you please.

And yes, it takes 1:41 to get through the intro to the content, which is too long. But I do love TCQ and that jab at Bono.

Contents: A proposed program format; jargon watch: quangos, quaggas, taqueo, saqueo and tamalero; the week in review; "I said get offa yer ass and DA-YUNCE!"

Additional reading:

ACLU v. NSA: District Court Ruling

Music credits:

1. Young Marble Giants, 'Credit in the Straight World'
2. Tribe Called Quest, 'What's the Scenario?'
3. Jon Hassel, 'Caravanesque' (a tribute to Miles Davis)
4. Manu Chao, 'Welcome to Tijuana (Tequila, Sexo, Marijuana)'
5. Toots & The Maytals, 'Funky Kingston'

I'm a little peeved at Podomatic, where I have been posting my podcasts: The posting form seems to be screwed up. I'm not over my storage or bandwidth limits. What gives?

Here, at any rate, is NMM Podcast #3, Week in Review: Margin of Terror.

As usual, I was too lazy to edit out the outtakes, so if you listen carefully you can learn my pet name for my wife and hear me hemming and hawing a lot and starting over.