Month: January 2012

Everything is fine

So I’ve been away for an age. Sorry about that. Filming is now over and I am catching up with domestic duties. The children look reasonably tidy and washed and meals are abundant if sometimes a little surprising. So let’s see…. Greece is heading for a blow out with its bond holders. Greece wants/has to …

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A new Reserve currency to challenge the dollar – What’s really going on in The Straits of Hormuz.

A little over a year ago on 1st November 2010 I wrote what I called “…a little bit of scurrilous speculation.”  In it I speculated that an unintended consequence of QE had been to spur several countries to think very seriously of how they could replace the dollar as their settlement currency for international deals. The …

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