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[N.B.: Dear Peter; as a regular listener of your weekly radio show and vlog, I wanted to say that I appreciate the work you've done.  Although not everyone may agree or even want to listen to what you have to say, I respect the consistency and logic of your arguments, which is quite refreshing admist [...]

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BNN’s Amanda Lang and Kevin O’Leary reported today on SqueezePlay that three U.S. cities have just written letters into the Treasury asking for their own bailouts – Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia are starting to look as financially well-off as California, which is completely in the red.  Is this a sign of worse to come?  What’s [...]

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When you consider all that’s been happening and put it on a short timeline, it’s amazing that we’re still seeing so much coordinated effort internationally.  This is great.  No one anywhere wants global markets in chaos.  It’s a good sign, in a way, that there is so much financial cooperation (at least that public knowledge [...]

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Lately I’ve found a new source of distraction in this sporadically intriguing book by David Rothkopf:
The book is ostensibly about the world’s power elite and the nature of their power, wealth and influence. Sounds like predictable, run-of-the-mill summer reading? It’s not. It’s actually quite a nuanced approach to the subject. Rothkopf [...]

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