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Month: January 2012

GREEK DEBT TALKS: support grows for Slog theory that Troika ready to call lenders’ bluff

This from a Wolf Richter piece at Zero Hedge: ‘…they’re going through a drawn-out step-by-step procedure of demands […]

John Ward January 25, 2012 GREECE GOING DOWN TO THE WIRE

News Ketchup

At the Slog’s Tesco Twitter page (where the membership has crept up to 55 now) there are those […]

John Ward January 24, 2012 News Ketchup

REVEALED: HOW THE VALUE OF THE EURO IS BEING DEGRADED IN ORDER TO SAVE THE BANKS

This is what the European Central Bank describes as its objective on the relevant EU site: ‘The primary […]

John Ward January 24, 2012 EROSION OF EURO REVEALED BY ECB STATISTICS

BREAKING: 27 EU COUNTRIES MET RE ESM…17 AGREED IT, FINLAND FORCED 85% LENDING APPROVAL RULE

PLUCKY FINNS HOLD OUT FOR CONSENSUS Mystery of what non-Ezone countries had to say Euro-zone finance ministers meeting […]

John Ward January 24, 2012 BREAKING...FINLAND WINS MASSIVE ESM COMPROMISE

These Ezoners, they’re ‘avin’ a larf, right?

Rough diamond Angie serves another regular Like a third-rate soap opera, the EU lumbers along: the acting is […]

John Ward January 24, 2012 Ezoners is worse than Eastenders

TESCO CONTINUES TO CRUMBLE IN FACE OF SLOG ONSLAUGHT

Note to Trolls: this piece is ironic self-parody Over at the website GoingFastGettingNowhere, there is yet more evidence […]

John Ward January 23, 2012 Uncategorized

EU REALITY CHECK –

UNCHANGED: STILL NO REALITY Calling the IIF’s bluff over Greek debt is a bold move – but the […]

John Ward January 23, 2012 CHAOS CONTINUES IN THE EU

STAND-OFF IN ATHENS: How a local negotiation turned into an international battle for survival.

As I struggled along with most other observers to work out just WTF had gone wrong in Athens […]

John Ward January 23, 2012 GREEK BONDHOLDERS WRONG-FOOTED

At the End of the Day

Feeding sheep to the lions After a certain age, winter becomes that time when anyone interested in the […]

John Ward January 22, 2012 TV Reality Lifestyle bollocks

EGYPT: After the Arab Spring comes the raw heat of popular Islamism

Yesterday in Egypt’s elections, between them the Muslim Brotherhood (47%) and the even more Islamist Salafi Party (27%) […]

John Ward January 22, 2012 big numbers

GREEK DEBT TALKS: LEGALS STILL ‘CHANGING STUFF EVERY TEN MINUTES’

How inflammable is the Greek Debt negotiation? Marathon is a word derived from ancient Greek, so perhaps the […]

John Ward January 21, 2012 Greece on the edge

REVIEW: The Help

Sissy Spaceck as Missus Walters ‘The Help’ is a film version of Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel about race […]

John Ward January 21, 2012 New movie 'The Help'

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