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Sep 23, 11 •
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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...
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Sep 22, 11 •
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Comments Off on Bring Out Your Dead…or Pile Them Up
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...
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Sep 21, 11 •
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Comments Off on Falling on your sword is just so last century
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 major companies display the...
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Sep 20, 11 •
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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...
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Sep 20, 11 •
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Comments Off on Italy gets downgraded and now it's Berlusconi's turn to get boiled
As the saying goes; “a week is a long time in politics”, but in Silvio Berlusconi’s situation it’s been an incredibly short week. Last week he’s schmoozing Chinese officials in an attempt to woo China in the hope that China will...
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Sep 19, 11 •
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Germany’s ten biggest banks need €127 billion euros of additional capital the German newspaper Frankfurt Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported over the weekend, citing a study by economic research institute DIW. The paper quoted Dorothea Schaefer, a...
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Sep 19, 11 •
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Comments Off on Fuel for Thought
The United States is the world’s largest producer of ethanol fuel. The U.S. produced 50.0 billion litres of ethanol fuel in 2010. Ethanol fuel is mainly used in the U.S. as an oxygenate to gasoline. In 2009, from all the ethanol fuel consumed in the...
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Sep 16, 11 •
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Comments Off on Delta One, this is Control Tower Two Calling, Please Respond…Over
One of the first and most crucial instructions novice pilots are given in how to communicate with the aircraft control tower is to keep communication brief, clear and relevant. “Think about what you are going to say before saying it. Mentally go over...
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Sep 15, 11 •
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Comments Off on The name's Bond, Eurobond
The European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has a plan and it’s backed by a string of high profile figures as a ‘rescue plan’ for the debt crisis Euroland and moreover the major European banks face. The plan is to issue...
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Sep 14, 11 •
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There is a phenomena occurring throughout Europe that is being hushed, the topic is money flight and it belongs in the same Pandora’s box of discussion subjects governments and central banks would rather not be part of lunch or dinner table...
