Heading back home today after a week on the road. (Roaming charge in Canada are going to be expensive!).
Very interesting week — I met a few new clients, learned a bit more about human psychology (you people are fascinating). I will post the outline of my last presentation later.
Looking forward to getting back home . . .
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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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July 29th, 2011 at 7:40 am
Roaming charges from the Atlantic Provinces last summer cost me over $ 300,00. Mostly business though. That was for two weeks. I love our northern neighbors.
July 29th, 2011 at 7:57 am
Be careful to avoid anything looking like a guillotine when you get back; looks like the Jacobins are in charge.
July 29th, 2011 at 8:43 am
Steny then Egan on CNBC a bit ago with Joe, Bec & Andy .. Steny I know you need capital to run an election on .. but Labor is taking over – we’re tired of turning over promises – we don’t need no stinking paper pushers .. lets go back to coinage – state quarters are now $100 and thats $5K on the bookshelf … Egan whats wrong – few really work – feeding the tv monster that burns IT up every second x100+ channels (paid for by ? profit write downs ? ya but its GDP)
I had to look up the whos who:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_(politics)
July 29th, 2011 at 9:02 am
Jesus, the roaming charges. We need the EU to come kick some ass here in NA like they do in Europe. Those Canadian/U.S. cross-barder roaming rates are just theft.
Absent oversight consumers get screwed. Digital Agenda: Commission proposes more competition, more choice and lower prices for mobile phone users abroad
This is the second round of hammering the phone companies have taken there, it used to be nearly as expensive as NA to roam. The EU isn’t resting, nor, apparently, can it just be bribed outright by the telecoms.
July 29th, 2011 at 9:25 am
Cramer “no pain no gain” blaming the Ts for this .. a brewed up new party to push the status quo around “dont tread on me” .. and Sen.Conrad on the other rainbow channel .. filling airtime – is that job description required* or is it comp time during the election .. reality tv progamming has been great during this changeover to new television transport mechanisms (sorry Actors Guild)
funny what happens when transports of all kinds get askew
* yes (just brewing mad is all)