A brief extract from a ZeroHedge article entitled “This is Europe’s Scariest Chart” : Some may be surprised to learn that while Portugal, and Greece, are quite bad, at 30.7% and 46.6% respectively, it is Spain where the youth unemployment pain is most acute: at 51.4%, more than half of the [...]  Whilst the MSM speak constantly of cuts, the reality is that the UK has never owed more money and is now neck and neck with the Eastern basket case that is Japan. The following chart from a ZeroHedge article shows just what state we are now in, with debt continuing to climb while the [...] Whilst hanging around waiting for the witching hour, the following from Zerohedge tickled my fancy … you may have seen the first version of the story but the second is much more like the reality of the EU today … It is a slow day in a little Greek village. The rain is beating [...] From Urban Dictionary via Infectious Greed comes this handy term Banker’s Dozen : Banker’s Dozen 4688 up, 4372 down December 15, 2011 Urban Word of the Day The opposite of a Baker’s Dozen where the customer receives 13 of a product for the price of 12; in a Banker’s Dozen the customer receives 11 [...] One little chart from an FT Alphavile article clearly showing just what happens when a war ends and all the soldiers come home again. The chart is from the US and shows the number of people reaching the age of 65 over the next decade. The interesing snippet for me is the jump in [...] There are some excellent articles and videos around at the moment which, between them, provide some thought provoking visions of where the world may be headed and, more importantly, why we are in this mess in the first place. The first one is a post by the Robert Denner writing over at ZeroHedge [...] Given the BBC’s newly exposed lack of impartiality on green matters it doesn’t really surprise me that they would put a positive spin on a poll about nuclear and renewable power. The impartiality bit comes out in one of the newly released Climategate emails : date: Wed Dec 8 08:25:30 2004 from: Phil Jones [...]
In a Spectator interview back in 1990, Nicholas Ridley had this to say on the subject of the EU and the Germans (emphasis mine) : I was still taken aback by the vehemence of Mr Ridley’s views on the matter of Europe, and in particular the role of Germany. It had seemed [...] Via ZeroHedge – is this how wars start? That headline being the response to a leaked document whereby German lawmakers have received confidential information on Ireland before the Irish parliament : Reuters is reporting the leak of confidential Irish budget information by German lawmakers and Irish parliamentarians are seething – viewing the leak [...] Vampire Squid – aka Goldman Sachs What used to be a debating point reserved for the tin-foil hat brigade, the theme of one world government seems to be gaining ground in (slightly) more mainstream places. Firstly, this extract from a great piece by Mike Krieger over at ZeroHedge (it is worth a [...] Watching Farage sticking it to our unelected masters never fails to raise a smile. It’s a shame there are not a few more with a spine in our house of rubber stampers in Westminster : _ [...] Amongst a large and in places very amusing image set over at ZeroHedge, William Banzai has another dig at the Euro farce with the following image which will probably get rolled out all over the place in no time at all when tshtf : [...] If you were wondering what the unseemly rush to replace an elected leader with an EU mole was all about then the following chart from ZeroHedge nicely shows the rather large amount of Italian (and other) debt needing buyers at the beginning on next year and, at 7% plus, it certainly would not be [...] Last seen on ZeroHedge in September 2010, the rather amusing Irishman shares his forthright views on finance with an American journalist. As you can imagine from the post title he doesn’t mince his words, so consider yourself warned if fragile ears are nearby! _ [...] Via ZeroHedge, I bet Merkel and Sarkozy (not to mention Von Rumpy-Pumpy and Baroso) didn’t see this one coming when they were giving press conferences on Wednesday : It appears the Greek leader has had it, and is officially throwing in the towel, leaving his citizens to tell Europe to shove their perpetual bank [...]  |
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