For all these reasons, our present crisis is not just a financial meltdown crying out for a cash injection.
Today, 23 May, is the annual general meeting (AGM) of financial speculator Goldman Sachs, the archetypal villain of the global economic meltdown, bailed out by US taxpayers to the tune of $5.5bn.
Tonex In the five years since his previous studio album the gospel star Tonex quit the genre, was divorced and was the subject of rumors about his sexuality, all of which led to something of a public meltdown, played out in YouTube videos and MySpace posts.
Fedotov's accession, as a Russian, to head of the UNODC in 2010 (he replaced Italian Antonio Maria Costa, a rumoured member of Opus Dei who famously revealed that drug money had kept the world afloat during the global financial meltdown) turned out to be a prescient move.
In recent weeks activists in Russia and the West have been discussing the bizarre behavior of the well-known Russian gay activist Nikolai Alexeyev, who had what was called a Twitter meltdown, sending out tweets attacking other activists and making ugly anti-Semitic remarks, among other strange pronouncements (including that he was quitting activism).
But, at a time when lots of smart people have answers, but none of them are quite right, here's a meltdown shout-out to Mr. Peterffy and his $250 solution to the $700 billion question.
Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema have been making psychotronic meltdowns out of classic rock for years now; some might still say the duo should be institutionalized, but in underground circles they are an institution.
Of course a full out meltdown of the European financial system would send shock waves throughout the world economy.
The consequences of a possible economic meltdown will ripple out far and wide.
By summer 2014 he was playing James Lavelle's Meltdown festival decked out in his own capsule collection, dedicated to the Soweto youth uprising.
