Not a gloomy diary (but don’t show it to any fundies)

After all my recent “Dollar Dump” diaries, my “Bubbles Greenspan” diaries, my “Peak Oil is nigh” diaries, I feel that i owe you sorthing completely different.

Well, here it is: it’s summer in Europe.

Department stores sell swim suits and advertise them with enthusiasm:

(Yep, that’s in one of the main thoroughfares of Paris. Janet jackson, eat your heart out)

Finance ministers frolick happily:

(That’s the Austrian minister of finance, believe it or not, “having things in hand”)

You can keep your Dobs on.

Author: Jerome a Paris

Energy banker based, yes, in Paris, France. Writing about energy, economics, international geopolitics, European and French stuff, and whatever else catches my attention. Very strongly pro-European. Liberal in the US, libéral in France and proud of both.