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The UK has announced immediate sanctions against all Iranian banks. Under the sanctions, all UK credit and financial institutions are required to forthwith cease all dealings with Iranian banks. The move will have a greater impact than the US sa...
The Risk Professional: when people go mad
Ignore clinical definitions: 62 year old Terry Thompson of Zanesville, Ohio was, in the ordinary sense of the word, mad. Stark raving bonkers, in fact. Who else would turn almost 50 bears, lions, tigers, wolves and monkeys loose in a small town?
The Risk Professional: why the UK's QE2 is a rubbish idea
The Bank of England is making a massive mistake as it throws GBP75,000 million into an economy that even the usually positive-sounding Bank says is in crisis. That's more than GBP1,000 for every UK citizen.
The Risk Professional: UN warns that crime levels are a threat to development
High levels of crime and insecurity continue to pose a challenge to social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean, despite steady improvements in governance over the past two decades, the head of the United Nations Developme...
The Risk Professional: Norway's horror shows the folly of foreign focus
No one should blame the authorities in Norway for the actions of one man, no matter how bad. But the "global community" has made a serious error of judgement and in doing so has opened the way for people like Anders Behring Breivik to...
California's Governor, Kamala Harris, is justifiably proud (on behalf of her state, its former governor and herself) of the fact that the murder...
The Risk Professional: It's the little things that often give the game away
A group entering New Zealand showed no outward signs of being anything but visitors as they hobbled through Aukland Airport. Hang on, New Zealand...
The Risk Professional: TD Waterhouse's debit card fiasco
Do a Google search for on-line stockbroker TD Waterhouse and the top entry is to www.tdwaterhouse.com But it doesn't work . But this failure is m...
The Risk Professional: US govenment has less than 72 hours to save its finances
Setting and securing a US budget is an object lesson in brinkmanship. If ever there was a stupid way to run a country's finances, the USA has fou...
The Risk Professional: The trouble with radiation - a bad, bad hangover
As foreign experts continue to turn up in Japan to offer help in combating the continuing problems at the nuclear reactors damaged in the 11 Marc...
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