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Does the Premier League have the X-Factor of Rome's Bread and Circuses?

“Bread and Circuses” is regarded as a metaphor to explain the superficial means of appeasement. In politics the phrase is used when describing the synthetic creation of public approval. Not through exemplary public service and policy creation, but through immediate satisfaction by pandering to the shallow requirements of the populace. The phrase also suggests the […]

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Relief Rally Fades as the Reality Bites

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It was inevitable that the very strong relief rally the markets enjoyed yesterday was unsustainable. Has there ever been a time in recent trading history were merely the mention of possible solutions by European policy makers can lead to such wild swings of sentiment? We’re still some distance away from implementation of the various mechanisms

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Buying the Rumour but Will We Also Buy the News?

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“Buy on the rumour sell on the news” is a tried and tested market trading approach, traders often make trading decisions based on what they calculate may happen due to any given economic report or event (the rumour). Once the event passes or the report is released (the news), they then ‘dump’ their positions and

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You Take the Red Pill and You Stay in Wonderland and I Show You How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes

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The “rabbit hole” is an accepted metaphor for the conceptual path which leads to the true nature of reality. Infinitesimally deep and complex, venturing too far down is probably not too clever an idea, you have to wonder if beginning to expose just how deep the global economies’ rabbit hole is burrowed will now irreversibly

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The Euro is Dead, Long Live the Euro

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[quote]A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood. A day will come when we shall see the United States of America and the United States of Europe, face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas. – Victor Hugo 1848.[/quote] In December 1996, the designs for

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Fracking Shale Gas, Fracking Economy

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The slump in share values and the volatility of the forex markets hasn’t reduced me to swearing, I moved on a few years back from swearing at the monitor and “the markets” when my trades went bad. Oh ok, I admit it, I still do it now and again, but hey, you have to have

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The Recent History of Epic Bank Failure has been Forgotten

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During the 2008-2009 banking crisis the FDIC website experienced a surge in traffic. Plenty of observers have kept a ‘weather eye’ on the site since. It listed and continues to list failed banks and financial institutions in the USA whose depositors and investors required assistance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The late 2000s financial

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Bring Out Your Dead…or Pile Them Up

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Whilst all the focus is on the plight of the Eurozone the domestic financial mess the USA is locked in continues to escape rigorous scrutiny. California is bust, Jefferson county can’t afford its sewers and now we learn that Wayne County Detroit’s morgue can’t afford to bury, or cremate their dead. Having sacked three out

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Falling on your sword is just so last century

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[quote]He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.. – Monty Python, Life Of Brian.[/quote] There was a time when politicians made an effort to set the moral agenda. However, given the refusal of leading politicians (in all countries) to accept any responsibility for their actions it comes as no surprise when the CEOs of

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When the Tree Falls, the Monkeys Scatter – 树倒猢狲散

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Chinese proverbs, you could spend an age reading the short stanzas whilst contemplating the meaning and being humbled by the wisdom of an ancient culture that has fashioned, reduced and compartmentalised certain life events into short dynamic phrases. Visions of Yoda like Chinese overlords, reverently musing their economic pearls of wisdom, in quiet whispers to

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