[quote]It’s a race, it’s a chase, hurry up and feed their face! Who will win? No one knows! Feed the hungry hip-ip-pos! Hungry hungry hippos! (open up and there it goes!)[/quote] With the advent of web sites such as the original friends re-united website and lately Facebook it's become relatively straightforward to track down many […]
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China’s official news agency, Xinhua, has ridiculed U.S. lawmakers’ efforts to pressure Beijing over its currency policy insisting that the USA admin. is resorting to deflecting blame onto China for its own domestic economic malaise. “This has become a common practice, whenever the (U.S.) economy is slow, whenever an election is nearing, voices in the
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York will begin to question foreign banks for more thorough reports on their liquidity (and indirectly their solvency) as the U.S. steps up its risk monitoring of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis. Regulators have apparently held informal talks with the largest European lenders. The reports may cover potential liabilities such
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It's so comforting to know that the 'lender of last resort' always has its priorities in the right place. On September 22nd, amongst the press releases issued from its headquarters in Washington, the IMF finally released the news that the markets, central banks, governments and the multi faceted worldwide collection of, investors, commentators and journalists
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In a late rally US stocks climbed to end the day in positive territory. The SPX closed up 0.81% to be back in positive territory year on year. Whilst the markets expected a unified vote by the German government to be duly ratified disappointing consumer confidence figures weighed heavily in mid afternoon trade. Consumer confidence
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It’s so comforting to know that the ‘lender of last resort’ always has its priorities in the right place. On September 22nd, amongst the press releases issued from its headquarters in Washington, the IMF finally released the news that the markets, central banks, governments and the multi faceted worldwide collection of, investors, commentators and journalists
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So many of the sacred cows of the investment world and financial boom appear to be getting slain lately that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up. Australia appears to have recently lost its edge and shine and now New Zealand’s economic growth is under intense scrutiny. Similar to the Aussie the Kiwi has been
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As Spain suffered a general strike yesterday, in opposition to the severe austerity measures, once again the mainstream news outlets choose to largely ignore the protests. Buried deep amongst the torrent of news relating to the Eurozone crises, there is one aspect that hardly ever merits a mention, the human angle. Whilst countries such as
Spain's Bull Fighting Ends But The Fight In The People Lives On Read More »
Not wanting to be left behind by various actors, pop stars and other members of the glitterati, the European Commission president Jose Barroso played his popular card in his EU address on Wednesday and lent his support to the zeitgeist of banker hatred by suggesting that a financial transaction tax, the Tobin tax, or what’s
Why the Robin Hood Tax, Belongs With the Men in Tights Read More »
Investors are wary as inspectors from the EU and IMF head to Greece in order to forensically scrutinize their revised austerity plans. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has her own issue, attempting to defuse a revolt within her own government ahead of the absolutely crucial vote on Thursday to expand Europe’s bailout fund. The international auditors return to
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