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Why the Euro might be the place to be

February 15th, 2009 No Comments

The markets have certainly been in freefall, right now we sit in a lull before the next wave of storms arrive, there is no imminent sign of recovery and the US bailout seems so cretinous there is little chance of it helping the consumer in any way.
Right now I think the strongest trend is to [...]

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Credit Card Credit Crisis

November 24th, 2007 No Comments

It is only a few month since I was discussing the impact of credit card and consumer debt on the economy and that everyone saying American Express etc would not be impacted by the sub prime meltdown was crazy. If you aren’t paying your mortgage and are establishing bad credit , why would you pay [...]

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Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend – Or Are They

November 24th, 2007 No Comments

I regularly end up having conversations with people who oooh and ahhh over diamonds, possibly the best marketed commodity on the planet. People have connotations of rarity and value when they look at diamonds and one cannot but applaud DeBeers (the cartel that makes Microsoft’s anti competitive litigation with Netscape look like small children throwing [...]

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Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend – Or Are They

November 24th, 2007 No Comments

I regularly end up having conversations with people who oooh and ahhh over diamonds, possibly the best marketed commodity on the planet. People have connotations of rarity and value when they look at diamonds and one cannot but applaud DeBeers (the cartel that makes Microsoft’s anti competitive litigation with Netscape look like small children throwing [...]

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Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend – Or Are They

November 4th, 2007 No Comments

I regularly end up having conversations with people who oooh and ahhh over diamonds, possibly the best marketed commodity on the planet. People have connotations of rarity and value when they look at diamonds and one cannot but applaud DeBeers (the cartel that makes Microsoft’s anti competitive litigation with Netscape look like small children throwing [...]

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Credit Card Credit Crisis

November 4th, 2007 No Comments

It is only a few month since I was discussing the impact of credit card and consumer debt on the economy and that everyone saying American Express etc would not be impacted by the sub prime meltdown was crazy. If you aren’t paying your mortgage and are establishing bad credit , why would you pay [...]

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