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Dec 30, 11 •
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Comments Off on 2011 Was Not A Vintage Year, But Is The Phenomenon Of Vintage Over-Rated?
A vintage wine is made from grapes that were all, (or primarily), grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certain wines it denotes quality, as in Port were Port houses make and declare vintage Port in their best years. From this tradition, a common...
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Dec 29, 11 •
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There’s a cast iron tradition woven into the fabric of the UK psyche; over the holiday period we get together after the main two days have passed and moan about the rubbish that was on television. Moving aside the fact every news broadcast is occupied for...
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Dec 29, 11 •
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Comments Off on Pre Xmas Optimism Blown Away Due To The ECB's Swollen Loan Book
The major market sell off experienced yesterday ‘across the board’ was due to the ECB revealing that it’s balance sheet had swelled to record highs as a consequence of its successful loan tender in the week preceding Xmas. As the deadline...
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Dec 28, 11 •
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Comments Off on The USA Has No Option But To Play 'Soft-Ball' With China Over The Yuan
The “currency war” appears to be experiencing a truce for now, the USA admin. is using a far more conciliatory tone and employing improved diplomatic language when describing the value of the Yuan and the supposed harm it’s inflicting on the...
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Dec 28, 11 •
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Comments Off on "I'll See That Debt Raise And I'll Raise You" The USA Continues With Its High Stakes Poker Game
Amongst the ‘good news’ regarding consumer optimism that was reported on Tuesday came the very bad news (which appeared to be buried) that the USA was close to breaching the first level of it’s revised debt ceiling agreed by both houses in...
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Dec 27, 11 •
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Comments Off on 2012, The Year Of The Yen?
Japan sold at least 14.3 trillion yen ($183 billion) in 2011 in order to stem the gains that cut profits for exporters, Finance Minister Jun Azumi has pledged more intervention if required in 2012. Intervention in 2012 may fail again however, as the financial...
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Dec 27, 11 •
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“I’m all lost in the supermarket I can no longer shop happily I came in here for that special offer A guaranteed personality” – The Clash 1979 The day preceding Xmas Eve caused chaos in certain stores across the USA as ‘sneaker...
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Dec 23, 11 •
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“All your base are belong to us” (often shortened to “All Your Base”, “AYBABTU”) is a broken English phrase that became an Internet phenomenon in 2000–2002. The text comes from the opening cutscene of the 1991 European...
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Dec 23, 11 •
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Comments Off on St. OMO, The 'Beatification' Of The FED May Take Some Time
Bloomberg have released a Christmas cracker for investors this morning, under the USA Freedom of Information Act they’ve obtained the detail on the loans made to the banks and various financial institutions from when the banking system began to implode...
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Dec 22, 11 •
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Comments Off on The Austerical Deliverance Of The Technocrats Isn't Working
Ireland was regarded as the poster child for a booming economy. When period houses in Dublin were selling for over a million euros in 2007 it was regarded as good news, there was no reference to first time buyers left stranded as the first rung remained out...