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In the latest 100% believable accusation, EU accuses US of improperly trawling citizens’ online data . In response, Europe is threatening to end the safe harbor laws.
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The European budget debate stepped up a notch today as Italy, Spain Warned on Budget . After Italy rebuffed warnings about its budget, euro-area finance ministers late Friday agreed to give the country additional opportunities to show it can make savings and bolster revenue.
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SongFacts comments on Stuck In The Middle With You by Stealers Wheel. Also known simply as "Stuck In The Middle", this Stealers Wheel classic was co-written by the group’s guitarist Gerry Rafferty and keyboard player Joe Egan. In his obituary of Rafferty for the January 5, 2011 issue of the Daily Telegraph , Martin Chilton said of this song that it was "Written as a parody of Bob Dylan’s paranoia, it ridiculed a music industry cocktail party, with the lyrics: ‘Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.’ To Rafferty’s utter disbelief his parody, composed as little more than a joke but with a catchy pop arrangement, struck gold, selling more than a million copies.
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On September 2, 2011, the Wall Street Journal chimed in with A French Banking Primer The effects of a system that ‘encourages excessive financial leverage’. By its own account, Credit Agricole’s tangible common equity is just 2.1% of its assets—which means its €1.6 trillion balance sheet is leveraged nearly 49-to-1.
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