You can’t make up a headline like this
Former French President Chirac hospitalised after mauling by his clinically depressed poodle
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month January 2009
Has the Icelandic Revolution begun?
The Iceland Parliament has been stormed, with bonfires set outside it. The siege continues. “Beware the fury of a patient man.”
Leonard Peltier severely assaulted in prison
This attack on LP comes on the heels of the FBI’s recent letter, prompting this attack by FBI supporters as an attempt to discredit LP as a model prisoner. Anyone who has been in the prison system knows well that…
Russian ruble about to cliff dive
The Russian government has given up trying to prop up its sagging ruble, and will instead do a “dirty float” “A dirty float would look like it was a free market but the central bank would still have a measure…
Jim Rogers: UK is “finished”
One of the world’s leading investors voiced the markets’ concerns. Jim Rogers, of the Singapore-based Rogers Holdings and co-founder of the Quantum fund with George Soros, told Bloomberg Television: “I would urge you to sell any sterling you might have.…