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If you need a break from money supply, jobs, Cyprus, France, Europe in general, or housing (who doesn’t) I have a wonderful visual diversion that is literally “out of this world”. You can Watch the Aurora Borealis from an International Space Station that captures otherworldly famous lights.
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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.
Cyprus Conservative Opposition Parliamentary Member Says "If No Solution Soon, Print Cyprus Pounds and Abandon the Euro" Posted by Michael Shedlock at 11:28 PM Disclaimer: The content on this site is provided as general information only and should not be taken as investment advice.
Diana Olick has an interesting article called Defying Gravity: Miami Condos Soar Again During the height of the housing boom, some likened the feverish flipping game in Miami’s condominium market to a circus. The circus is back, and more high-flying than ever
From the library of genuine news, Reuters reports Cyprus parliament rejects deposit tax for bailout . Cypriot lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected a deeply unpopular tax on bank deposits on Tuesday, throwing into doubt an international bailout for the troubled euro zone member needed to avert default and a banking collapse
Staged Vote? In spite of the 1-Not Present, 36-No, 19-abstentions vote in the Cypriot parliament, one really has to wonder if this was a staged vote to show solidarity with Cypriot citizens, with some sort of face-saving deal already approved for tomorrow (in which the Cypriot parliament votes yes by a slim majority in return for minor concessions from the ECB and Germany). In short, it is unclear if we really know what is happening in the Cypriot parliament.
Too many takedowns to count for David Rose who doesn’t realize that short-term fluctuations in temperature tell you little about long term trends. The latest case is that according to one computer model, the temperature sequence ending in 2012 is close to the bottom edge of the statistical uncertainty range, a point where there’s only supposed to be a 5% chance that random variation produces a temperature below the modeled range.
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