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"Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries." -Bill Gross
Signs continue that European markets are getting tired. The Spanish and Italian stock markets, big beneficiaries of the sharp decline in their bond yields over the past few months are falling to the lowest since Feb 1. The European bank index is at a 1 1/2 week low after earnings reports from Commerzbank and Credit Ag (RBS bouncing although reporting weaker than expected earnings) were disappointing. This market action is in spite of the German IFO business confidence figure which rose to a 7 month high coming in a touch above expectations and Italian consumer confidence which bounced more than...
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October 29th, 2010 at 10:17 am
I’m sure there must be a Darwin award version of this video.
October 29th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Fun…but that guy in the wetsuit running ‘on’ water is obviously a trick. They shouldn’t have included that one.
October 29th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
The walking on water thing was originally created by Hi-Tec, the company that makes some pretty good sports shoes.
The original video which went viral:
Walk on water (Liquid Mountaineering)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3St1GgoHQ
A collection of video’s on people attempting this:
http://www.liquidmountaineering.blogspot.com/
Original source & story admitting that it was a bit of a hoax. There was nothing special about HI-Tec shoes that allowed someone to walk on water (which any sane person knew anyways):
http://www.hi-tec.com/liquid-mountaineering/