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EURO STESS TESTS: Banks filibuster in attempt to dilute Basel III capital definitions.

New revelations show banks want far more time than markets prepared to give. Both Reuters and Bloomberg have […]

John Ward July 15, 2010 Breaking - Basel III, capital definitions, eurobanks running scared, markets unconvinced

RAOUL MOAT: HOW SOCIAL WORKERS AND A PSYCHIATRIST GOT IT WRONG.

I must confess, I didn’t imagine that the Raoul Moat fiasco would provide further evidence of the damaging […]

John Ward July 15, 2010 incompetent psychiatrist., pleas ignored, Raoul Moat, secret family courts, Social workers

Eurocrisis: Why Germany stands out from the rest of the EU

Two bits of news which speak for themselves. The former head of IKB Deutsche Industriebank became the first […]

John Ward July 14, 2010 guilty verdict, IKB, sensitive information., Stefan Ortseifen, stress tests Didier Reynders

US IN CRISIS: Divided, losing faith in Obama, cynical about the system.

Americans continue to demand an end to their recession. But more and more, demands are turning to despair […]

John Ward July 14, 2010 business and consumers dismayed, losing credibility, losing support, no faith in financial bill, Obama, one-term wonder.

ANALYSIS: Getting things slightly out of balance

“No really – it’s this big” The Editor offers a calm audit of exactly where and how our […]

John Ward July 14, 2010 Mammon, Mandelson, Maxwell, Mirror, Moat, Morgan, Murdoch

EUROZONE CRISIS: Bailout fund will have tax-haven base.

Obersturmbannfuhrer Regling Ten things you don’t want to know about the ESFS 1.The much-vaunted confidence boosting European Financial […]

John Ward July 14, 2010 doubts linger, EU stability fund, Klaus Regling, tax haven status, triple-A or not.

CHINA: ‘Failure victim’ strategy moves on to South America.

China’s global spider-and-fly web of weak partners is steadily taking shape. Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s […]

John Ward July 14, 2010 $10 billion, Argentina railways, China, global strategy., new big investment

New shock as pasengers get in way of airline going about its business.

There was a quite extraordinary incident the other day, when staff administering a scheduled United Airlines flight bound […]

John Ward July 14, 2010 excess weight, forcing passengers off plane, no apology, no incentive, our own fault., United airlines

Guess who’s really paying for the BP disaster?

Oh to be a corporate entity. It transpires that money spent plugging the BP well leak, cleaning up […]

John Ward July 13, 2010 BP, Gulf oil leak, tax deductible.

Slog’s gold theories go mainstream at last

Earlier this week, in the Daily Telegraph of all places, serious journalism finally decided to take The Slog’s […]

John Ward July 13, 2010 BIS, Crafty gold deals, IMF, Telegraph takes up cudgels

SPY ANALYSIS: The in, out, shake it all about saga of Shahram Amiri.

Ian Black, the London Guardian’s Middle East editor, says there are ‘many unanswered questions’ in relation to the […]

John Ward July 13, 2010 CIA, Hillary Clinton, Ian Black, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinnejhad., Qom nuclear establishment, Shahram Amiri

ANALYSIS: Why China’s new Empire is on a collision course with Islamism.

Quietly but swiftly, the Chinese are moving in on the ground floor of Africa and the Mediterranean….bringing them […]

John Ward July 13, 2010 Africa, China v Islam, Chinese expansionism, future conflict., Greece, Mediterranean, Spain

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