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January 25, 2008

Apologies

I am afraid that the steam is right out of my MENA commentary desires right now. Most items I want to talk about are arcane financial items of such narrow interest that I suspect only pantom would follow - and frankly the whole Iraq etc. circus bores me of late. Gotten right up there with Israel and Palestine....

And of course the non-trivial impacts on personal business due to recent... ahem, interesting developments in the financial sector are eating me up.

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January 16, 2008

Alive Not Dead

However, the global financial sector meltdown is causing me no small amount of issues. Although I think I have doged such bullets, I suspect the economy (global) will not.

Ah, American financial innovation, etc.

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January 01, 2008

New Bloody Year, blah blah

Usual rubbish, prognosticating, retrospectives, and other utterly useless rubbish.

I am about to spend another month on the road, so one year looks like the next. But some thoughts of a largely personal nature - sorry no predications about Bhutto or politics. Losing game, that. [update 10 jan]

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