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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH, Monday, December 12, 2011 [View all]amandabeech
(9,893 posts)106. Certainly one must consider that.
However, it appears to me that TPTB here are divided between the German types and the French types.
It is as if the German TPTB are still Germans and the French are still French. It is congenital fear of "Weimar" vs. a congential attachment to "Le Honneur."
Which is the reason why I've never seen good long-term prospects for the Euro.
The Anglosphere TPTB, however, seem to be watching each other's backs.
The French will, however, feel free to tap into US and UK military power. Libya was first; Syria will be second.
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I think it belongs in LBN for the same reason that even NPR updates Market numbers all day
bread_and_roses
Dec 2011
#23
Wow, this is like back to the future. It's already Monday somewhere, I guess - LOL!
InkAddict
Dec 2011
#11
Perhaps lobbying the rotating honchos at LBN and/or Admin could recover SMW posting rights there,
Ghost Dog
Dec 2011
#98
Once again, the SMW thread that was posted and locked was NOT a current SMW OP
Tansy_Gold
Dec 2011
#97
There is a lot of deja vu going on, and to different periods of modern European history.
amandabeech
Dec 2011
#87
Well, perhaps here is a market opening for a firm actually contractually committing itself to not
amandabeech
Dec 2011
#88