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Sep 14, 11 •
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Scalping is the act of removing another person's scalp or a portion of their scalp, either from a dead body or from a living person. The initial purpose of scalping was to provide a trophy of battle, or portable proof of a combatant's prowess in war....
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Sep 14, 11 •
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There were respected economists such as Nouriel Roubini who, as early as 2005-2006, spotted the dangers the shadow banking system were potentially causing the credit markets. When the cardiac arrest came in 2007-2008, perpetuated by Bear Sterns and ultimately...
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Sep 13, 11 •
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Equities received a modest boost in USA in late trading on Monday evening as news emerged that Italy is apparently courting China trying to get it to buy as much of it’s ‘junk’ as possible. Apparently these negotiations have been conducted...
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Sep 13, 11 •
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Throughout the global financial maelstrom which has existed since 2007-2008 Australia has continually bucked the trend. Even the devastating series of floods experienced in Jan this year (2011) appeared to only temporarily knock the vast country from...
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Sep 13, 11 •
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The USA Congress estimates that the war waged in Afghanistan since ‘911’ has cost nearly $450 billion. That sum is equivalent to handing every Afghan man, woman and child $15,000. That sum is also 10 years of earnings for an average Afghan,...
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Sep 9, 11 •
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Can someone “do the math” as President Obama urged Congress? How do you re create the ten million jobs lost in the USA since 2007 with $447 billion of dollars? How do you pull these rabbits out of hats whilst keeping the debt ceiling under the...
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Sep 9, 11 •
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Now before you switch off having read the title thinking; " here we go, another 'happy-clappy' you can change the world type PMA trading article" that's not the intention, bear with me.. As individual traders we are (at heart)...
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Sep 8, 11 •
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Since the Swiss national bank ‘took out’ a series of trading pairs with their determination to in effect ‘peg’ the franc, the CHF pairs have been virtually untradeable. Even from a potential position trade perspective many currency...
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Sep 8, 11 •
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It's fascinating to consider how myths originate, for example, both of the two quotes above are attributed to Albert Einstein, however, the second quote might not be, credit could be given to the American writer Rita Mae Brown. A quote verifiably...
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Sep 7, 11 •
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The California Gold Rush of 1848–1855 began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. Approximately 300,000 people migrated to California from the rest of the United States and abroad to be...