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Jan 13, 12 •
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It’s actually an urban myth that the great wall of China is “visible from the moon” or visible from orbit with the naked eye unless we’re accepting that using Google earth amounts to the same. The claim the Great Wall is visible has...
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Jan 12, 12 •
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The news agencies delighted in reporting in the news yesterday that Barclays Capital had published their version of the Skyscraper index. According to a study by Barclays Capital, the mania for skyscrapers over the last 140 years is a sure indicator of an...
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Jan 12, 12 •
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Contrary to analysts’ expectations British industrial output figures were published revealing a 0.6% fall in November highlighting the suspicion that the overall UK economy contracted in the final quarter of 2011 and will inevitably fall back into a...
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Jan 11, 12 •
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Work until you’re 75? You may have to according to leading academics specializing in the pension industry. The pensions ‘police’ don’t want the retirement age lifted and your contributions increased so you can sky dive and scuba dive...
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Jan 11, 12 •
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Italian Technocrat Fears Uprisings And Protests In Italy Once Austerity Measures Begin To Bite Unelected technocratic Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has made a plea for more “help” before convening talks in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela...
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Jan 10, 12 •
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USA Consumer Credit Reaches Ten Year High As Savings Rate Continues To Languish The news released yesterday that USA citizens had gorged on a credit binge (the likes of which had not been seen for ten years) took many market commentators and publishers by...
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Jan 10, 12 •
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We covered how the austerity measures are beginning to bite hard in Greece during our tale of two cities forex market commentary of last week. The youth unemployment problem is dire, adoption and care agencies are at breaking point as desperate families are...
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Jan 9, 12 •
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Despite the Eurozone debacle the French are showing remarkable trust in the system, their banks and our beleaguered, battered and bruised single Currency. With one of the lowest personal debt ratios in the Eurozone, partly as a consequence of the French not...
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Jan 9, 12 •
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The euro has strengthened versus the dollar for the first time in four days of trading due to the leaders of Germany and France meeting today. The euro had earlier fallen to an 11-year low versus the yen ahead of a report today that economists thought would...
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Jan 6, 12 •
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You know that scene in the film Groundhog Day, when Bill Murray is woken up by his alarm clock to find it’s the same old re-cycled pattern to his day, day after day? I really need to change radio stations for our alarm clock, every weekday morning...
