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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 7. January | 105 comments (105 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

nice of Tony to finally say something after all his years of carefully cultivated gilt-edged inactivity. Yet when he does, his precision in hitting almost exactly the most wrong note possible is truly outstanding.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jan 6th, 2009 at 04:37:22 PM EST
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Re: Special - Gaza (none / 0)

I'm a bit amazed such a guy wouldn't have a bit of secure cash somewhere just in case of that kind of events...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Jan 6th, 2009 at 04:39:53 PM EST
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Re: Special - Gaza (none / 1)

Um, if the guy were a bank he'd only have about 8% of the value of his liabilities stashed away according to Basel II...

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 6th, 2009 at 04:43:14 PM EST
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Re: Special - Gaza (4.00 / 2)

Those would be lost by the bad turn of the economy ; I was thinking along the lines of "bag of diamonds in a coffer in a tax heaven"...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Jan 6th, 2009 at 05:01:43 PM EST
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He'll have a new medal soon - that's certain to be worth something on eBay.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Jan 6th, 2009 at 06:49:26 PM EST
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