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Politics

Difficult Times Ahead of the US Dollar

March 2, 2008

In 1971, on the demise of the gold standard, the US dollar became the currency of choice for most nations for their foreign reserves. The US Dollar was regarded in high esteem as a stable or even appreciating currency. In fact many countries actually pegged their currency to the US dollar, the most important being [...]

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Fingerprinted at DisneyWorld

November 30, 2007

Last weekend I was fingerprinted twice, once on entering the USA at Miami Airport on Friday and the second time on visiting Disney World. On querying the rationale for the second fingerprinting I was told by the Disney employee that ‘everything changed after 9/11″. Yes, after 9/11 Americans lost the ability to protect their freedom [...]

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Oxford Union Debating Society Endorse BNP

November 24, 2007

I was deeply disappointed in the Oxford Union Debating Society’s decision to invite the British National Party to speak at an event on Monday 26th November. Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, and Holocaust denier and historian, David Irving are keynote speakers. See BNP to speak to Oxford students In their role as hosts of [...]

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Bank Of England U-Turn

September 20, 2007

Well I must eat my words of my previous post as the Bank Of England makes a U-turn and injects £10 billion into the market in an attempt to bring down short term interbank lending rates, see ft.com – BOE U-Turn Mervin King will have some interesting explaining to do this morning in front of [...]

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Northern Rocking, don’t worry, Darling (is on the case)

September 18, 2007

Alistair Darling, made a good call today by shoring up the British banking industry with some guarantees that will not need to be fulfilled: a good balance of protecting depositors while sending out a message that investors need to take the bad times along with the good times. Even Norman Lamont on Newsnight had praise for BofE [...]

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