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Yahoo!News reports Debaltseve Under Rebel Control, Cossack Fighters Celebrate . My inline comments are in braces . Rebel fighters, many of them Cossacks roamed the streets of Debaltseve on Thursday, a day after Ukrainian forces began withdrawing from the besieged town.
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Tomorrow the Eurozone to Weigh Greek Bailout Proposal , but it already appears it’s no different from previous proposals. There will be no meeting on Friday if Germany rejects this one up front
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Tweet Some people make a qualitative distinction between divesting from coal businesses versus divesting from oil. I’ll concede at the start that coal is the worst, so if you choose to only divest from one sector then it should be coal.
Bloomberg reports China Property Recovery Fails to Gain Traction With Prices Dropping . Prices fell in 64 cities from the previous month, compared with 65 in December, and were unchanged in four, according to data from the bureau of statistics on Tuesday. Average prices fell 5.1 percent from a year earlier, the biggest drop on record, according to Tom Orlik, chief Asia economist at Bloomberg Intelligence.
Greek Negotiations and Philosophical Questions Three interesting philosophical questions have arisen this evening in regards to Greek negotiations. The three questions I ask at the bottom of this post are based on statements made by a global foreign exchange strategy chief at UniCredit bank and two negotiation demands by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. I highlighted in red and italics the source of my questions
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