Once again everyone is hyperventilating over "secret" moves to trade oil in currencies other than the US dollar. Please consider The Demise of the Dollar by Robert Fisk.  “In

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  Once upon a time, Dubai existed as a vast desert of nothingness, inhabited by Bedouins and pearl divers. But then they built it, and they came. And then they left.

You can usually measure the cultural significance of a piece of architecture by how many times it’s been blown up in the movies. The Chrysler Building, for example, was struck by a meteor i

This morning the media are reporting that the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Investment Company is selling a significant portion of the investment it made in Barclays (BCS) last November. Similarl

To believe some in the press, this week’s stress test carries comparable weight to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s bank holiday in 1933; that is, the test will signal the bottom of

"I'd rather be a hammer than a nail."- Paul ThornMortality. Legacy. Purpose. Passion. These are some of the words that continue to resonate after last week’s somber celebration. 

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