Mon(k)ey Puzzle
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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO
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A walk around the fringes of nance
By Grant Williams
9 December 2013
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Contents
France Fights Back Against German "Sick Man of Europe" .......................................21Hugh Hendry Throws in the Bearish Towel ........................................................22Mexico Housing Hits U.S. Investors As Plan Collapses ............................................24Weapons of Last Resort: ECB Considers Extreme Crisis Measures ..............................25Greenspan Says Bitcoin a Bubble Without Intrinsic Currency Value .......................... 27There Is Too Little Gold in the West ................................................................28The Every-Which-Way-But-Down Market ...........................................................29Kuroda $235,000 Salary Highlights Goldman Concern ...........................................31George Osborne's Recovery Is Built on Sand .......................................................32Japan's Abe Secures Passage of Secrecy Law As Opposition Revolts ...........................33
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Things That Make You Go
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Protruding from the sand a short distance to the south of the Pilot Pier, on the golden sands of Hartlepool in England's North East, is a vertical wooden mast.The mast dates back to the Napoleonic Wars, when the Emperor Bonaparte's armies were marching through Europe, sweeping all before them as the aftermath of the French Revolution manifested itself in France's aggressive attempt to take what it deemed as its rightful place at the head of the European table.Of course, with Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, the French Army was to suffer one of the most comprehensive military defeats in history; but at the time of our story the battle was very much joined; and Britain, the mightiest naval power the world had ever seen, was locked in combat with her mortal enemy from across the English Channel.Hartlepool, a small port in County Durham, was founded in the 7th century around Hartlepool Abbey, a Northumbrian monastery. The name originates from the Old English "heort-ieg" or "hart island," as stags were seen roaming the countryside in great abundance.Around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Hartlepool boasted a population of about 900 people — all of whom seemed to be obsessed with the possibility of attack by France.Gun emplacements were established and defences constructed in order to repel any French aggression, and the Hartlepudlians (as the people of that region were known) stood
ready to ght the rst Frenchman who dared set
foot upon their beloved sand.One night, amidst a terrible storm, a French
chasse-marée
(shmonger ship) that had
been pressed into the service of the Emperor capsized and sank off the coast of North East England, leaving a somewhat unusual but most
denitely solitary survivor — a monkey, who found himself washed ashore, exhausted, battered
and bruised from his nautical tribulations but still clinging to the mast, which remains there to this day.To receive Grant Williams'
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