RUSSIA BEATS CHINA IN TAKING TO THE STREETS

Posted by julian on February 3, 2009 in Economy, Politics

Mr Putin spent last week grandstanding amongst his peers at the Davos economic summit while at home protestors took to the streets of Moscow and Vladivostok. Putin may have been able to grandstand in the international arena when he was reaping the benefits of the world getting ripped off by high oil prices, but now [...]

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Wall St Collapses

Posted by julian on September 18, 2008 in Economy, Politics

As you can well imagine I am dancing on the graves of Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. For years I have written about the greed and avarice of big business and the antics of Wall Street. I enjoyed claiming that the N.Y. Mercantile Exchange and Wall Street traders were simply cowboys. Yesterday, I almost “threw [...]

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