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213. The price of risk – a City of London view
High flying, adored What happens now – Where do you go from here? For someone On top of the world The view is not exactly clear Evita — Rice & Lloyd-Webber (1976) I spent much of the summer...
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214. Three years of Roads of Stone
Things have been slow around here, for a little while now, and in more ways than one. I’ve had less time for running, and less still for writing. I’ve been unfit, distracted and slow. And yet — there’s...
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218. A turning tide – from Houston to Copenhagen
June in Houston. It’s 99F outside as we wait an hour at immigration. A glossy US arrival video is playing on a giant screen above our booth, but we have to wait an hour and offer all our fingerprints...
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220. Focus on a greener road ahead
My car was ten years old last week. As chance would have it, 100,000 miles came up on the same day. That’s the most miles of any car I’ve owned. By European standards, it’s a middle of the road kind of...
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226. The price of oil: 5 – Deepwater Horizon and the missing toolkit
Dear Don And so they’ve capped the well for now, although storms aren’t far away and the oil is still out there across the Gulf. I really hope your Florida beaches manage to avoid it. Elsewhere around...
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234. Fukushima, Japan and nuclear power in the UK
The triple shock of a huge earthquake, a devastating tsunami and an unfolding nuclear accident rocked Japan in March, and my condolences go out to all the many thousands affected. Luckily, none of this...
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236. The price of oil: 6 – Libya and the Last Oil Shock
‘Paradoxically, the very worst outcome [for oil prices] might not be a sudden shock, but a milder recession. If this were to create some temporary spare oil production capacity by depressing demand, …...
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244. A day in November – Occupy London 2011
(… with apologies to Sebastian Faulks). One day in November 2011. Two views of the City of London. 1) St Paul’s Cathedral, from the top floor of a major European bank; 2) The Occupy London protest....
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