Cairo Battles Cast Doubt On Egypt’s Elections
Syndicated Thursday, November 24th, 2011
There have been five days of protests so far and we are five days from the first round of voting in the parliamentary elections. But will Egypt make it?
‘Honour killing’ theory is probed
Syndicated Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Police in Pakistan are thought to be investigating whether a young couple from Glasgow were the victims of a so-called honour killing.
U-turn saves Youth Justice Board
Syndicated Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The Youth Justice Board becomes the second quango in 24 hours – after the office of the chief coroner – to be saved from a government cull.
Civil servants ‘to staff borders’
Syndicated Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Civil servants from across Whitehall are being lined up to act as border staff at UK ports and airports during next week’s public sector strikes.
Press left McCanns ‘distraught’
Syndicated Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann have told a judge-led inquiry into UK media practices they were left distraught by press suggestions they were responsible for their daughter’s death.
Egypt’s Military Offers Power Handover Vote
Syndicated Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Egypt’s military ruler says the armed forces are prepared to hold a referendum on immediately transferring power to a civilian authority if people demand it.
Egypt power transfer ‘speeded up’
Syndicated Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Egypt’s military rulers agree to hold presidential elections by next July, as protesters continue to pack Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
Print or Perish
Syndicated Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Europe
is again at center stage. At conferences and meetings and in private conversations,
it is the topic of the hour. I have thought a lot this week about Europe and
its impact, so once again we delve into what is an evolving situation. This
time, we look at possible impacts on the markets, as we ponder the questions,
“Are we back to 2008?” and “Is there a Lehman in our future?” and I try once
again to keep from making this a book-length letter. And I close with some
brief…
Mail on Sunday accused of hacking
Syndicated Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Hugh Grant tells the Leveson Inquiry the Mail on Sunday may have hacked into voicemail messages on his phone in 2007, a claim the paper says it “utterly refutes”.
Simon Hunt November/December Economic Report
Syndicated Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
I have been reading
and talking with Simon Hunt for a long time. He is a very thoughtful Brit who
spends a lot of time in China and thinks about copper and commodities and
cycles. He has enough seasoning to have seen a few cycles himself. This piece
summarizes rather well the view that he has expressed for some time. And while
I am generally skeptical of relying too much on cycles for specifics (they work
until they don’t), I think Simon has some very powerful conclusions. From his
summary:…
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