Damn, it is so hard to keep up in these weird old times. Everything is going up and down faster than a steam hammer on overdrive.
Numismatology is more than a mouthful which the shrewd among you will know means coin collecting.
At times like these we need solidity, stability, home comforts, the kind of comforts than our Grandmothers used to provide.
It is nearly Halloween and the markets can be heard creaking the floorboards and clanking the chains.
The image of the little boy with his finger in the dyke is pretty vivid at this particular moment in time if you are a shareholder.
The giant, the monster, the biggest picture. Vodafone has been at the forefront of the investor imagination for years.
The Government has moved in an nationalised banks which were very largely owned by private shareholders.
Why is it that we cannot write about the current financial crisis without alliterating? Credit crunch, then credit crisis and now market mayhem.
So, just because it is a defence contractor and it used to belong to the British Government it does not mean there is any excuse for lame James Bond jokes.
There has been a lot of magic in the way Bloomsbury has gone from just another publisher to THE publisher.
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