Judging by the comments, it seems many of you share my interest in understanding the recent economic news, at least Juha does. So I will continue covering that. Yesterday, my brother Carlos, who works for BNP in Europe sent me this story: Apparently we are seeing a dumping of US related assets by what is speculated to be... the Chinese. . Forget the computer attacks, Asia's sovereign funds dumping US assets would have a real impact on the economy. Credit and liquidity crises are not new and, when they turn bad, they turn bad. In 1929, the liquidity scare sparked a bank run. Banks didn't have enough cash and were defaulting, accelerating the mad dash and "bank-run" to get your money out while there was still liquidity. Then, the real economy wound up with no credit, and we all know the sad story from there. 2007 isn't like 1929. It isn't an "end-consumer" bank run. You and I are not going to the corner bank to take our savings out. Our confidence ...
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Ca me rappelle tellement l'equipe de France 98 :). Ils ont 8 ans de fun devant eux.
Comme je serai a Madrid pour 2010 (je sais pas si tu as lu sur ce site mais on demenage a Madrid) j'espere y etre pour un heureux evenement.
Et si le coeur te dit de venir passer quelques jours a Madrid avec madame et enfants, please feel welcome, on ira voir un match du Real,
un abrazo
Pour la coupe du monde, il y a encore les eliminatoires a passer... Ca risque d'etre dur pour la france, mais il va etre interressant de voir ce que font d'autres equipes comme la turquie, la croatie ou les pays bas qui ont fait un beau tournoi dans l'ensemble.
All the best