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US ECONOMY: Desperate retailers start creating shopper disposable income

Retailer loans are a disaster waiting to happen. US consumers just aren’t consuming, and there’s no relief in […]

John Ward July 5, 2010 dangerous times., retailers doing QE, US credit desert

ANALYSIS: Is China on the verge of a banking crisis?

The Slog wrote last Friday about Bank of China’s sudden decision to offer a massive rights issue on […]

John Ward July 5, 2010 Agricultural China Bank, Bank of China, banking crisis, Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neill, rights issues

The doctor who thinks Rugby should be a zero-scrum game

The only thing wrong with Allyson Pollock is that there’s an ‘o’ where an ‘i’ should be in […]

John Ward July 4, 2010 Allyson Pollock, BBC, insanity, Mark Thompson, rugby scrums 'dangerous'

Roop and the Chinese: A marriage made in Heaven.

The editor argues that real news can never be about control. I’ve been having a stab at posting […]

John Ward July 4, 2010 Beijing, censorship, dinosaurs., Murdoch, paywalls

SUNDAY SOAP….

Continuing the exclusive Eurovision Soap that has the world on the edge of its nerves… ‘POLITICAL ASYLUM’ Update […]

John Ward July 4, 2010 and a cameo appearance from Baroness Ashton., Hague, Sarkozy, Starring Merkel, Van Rompuy.

CONTRARIAN IDEA OF THE WEEK: Why not get the corporate sector to pay its fair share of tax?

A gigantic global professional sector is devoted entirely to avoiding corporate tax responsibilites. A ‘fair’ tax system should […]

John Ward July 4, 2010 George Osborne, multinational taxes too low, tax accountants, too many loopholes, Transocean

CONUNDRUM XVI: Would global warming be exactly what Homo sapiens needs?

I’ve posted before on how long it might take to evolve and change the genetic structure of Homo […]

John Ward July 3, 2010 climate change, DNA mutation, Journal of Science, rapid evolution., Tibetan evolution

AUSSIE MINING SETTLEMENT: Doubts persist about role of Deputy PM Wayne Swan.

Australian Deputy PM Wayne Swan The Slog has learned that what are being called ‘suspicious circumstances’ surround the […]

John Ward July 3, 2010 Australian mining agreement, Graham Richrdson, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Mike Rann, unanswered questions., Wayne Swan

Eurozone crisis: as the bailout fund descends into farce, Sarkozy tells French farmers, ‘no surrender’

ClubMed may be on life-support, but the French farmer must not be denied. One of the most famous […]

John Ward July 3, 2010 EU bailout fund, Official: Sarkozy says CAP stays forever., Portugal, Spain, won't get triple A

GLOBAL ECONOMY: Weekend intervenes to save markets, but the long game has begun.

There never was a recovery – there is only a recession about to deepen. The editor argues that […]

John Ward July 3, 2010 Bank of China, Dow Jones, EU clueless., EU denial, On the brink of economic change, UK recession, US crisis, William Hague

Slog in makeover sensation horror.

Welcome to the new site layout. I thought it might give the site a slightly more serious air, […]

John Ward July 3, 2010 Barack Obama, Daily Beast, Gay pride march, Keith Richards., Paris Hilton

US PAYROLL ANALYSIS: It is a sign. No, it is a shoe…

This from the Bloomberg site this afternoon: ‘U.S. stocks rose, driving the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index up […]

John Ward July 2, 2010 back, Crime uply down, discouraging, encouraging, forward, left, right, US jobs up, wrong

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