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Irak: wat vreest Balkenende?

De Senaat stevent af op een onderzoek over Balkenende’s steun voor de inval in Irak, in 2003. Wat vreest Balkenende toch?

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This bubble is different

The housing bubble that burst is different from any other bubble in recent times. The economic crater it caused is also much more frightening than anything seen in 50 years.

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Balkenende vreest Bos

Jan Peter Balkenende is opeens overal. Hij gaf interviews aan kranten, tijdschriften en TV. Niet vreemd: de angst voor Bos is terug.

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A new subprime drama in the making

Rogue lenders are offering a new breed of subprime mortgages, and millions are taking. History repeats itself – and stupidity too, so it seems.

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Don’t doubt the changed face of America

Let there be no doubt that on November 4, 2008, America changed. Let there be no doubt that the long march, started a woman on a bus, finally reached the finish line.

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Had enough? I have

Yes, the pic to the left indeed shows a bed. I dream of crashing on it and sleeping for days, if not weeks. I’m SO tired of this US election campaign – and I’m very glad that it’ll be over in a little over 36 hours. That’s also the reason why the site hasn’t been updated as often as you were probably used to by now. Sorry for that, but I simply cannot stand the election coverage anymore. However…

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Obama, the new Bill Clinton?

Barack Obama looks set to become the 44th president of the United States. With national and state polls being what they are, McCain can’t win. So it’s time to take a look at what an Obama presidency would be like — and more interestingly, whether such a presidency would truly be very different from Bill Clinton’s presidency. One thing Obama should watch out for, is not making the same mistakes Clinton made.

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NOTE TO OBAMA: BACK OFF JOE THE PLUMBER

Team Obama should move away from ‘Joe the Plumber’ REAL SOON, because if they don’t, it will explode in Obama’s face. People like Joe Wurzelbacher are the last people Obama wants to have insulted by Joe Biden.  McCain already can’t wait to reel him in: Wurzelbacher symbolises the undecideds in the Red States whom Obama has been wooing for so long, and who have been abandoning McCain. Alienate him, and all the hard work will have been for naught.

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The balloons must be emptied first

For approximately 30 years, the world allowed credit to balloon at least ten times beyond the size of the world’s true economy. Gigantic companies financed themselves with credit, even ran their daily operations with money they had loaned. That wasn’t surprising. Taking out loans was rewarded with fiscal deductions, positive interest rates, and a rich variation of other rewards and instruments. And then things went extraordinarily wrong.

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STOCK MARKET CRASH

It’s here. Amsterdam AEX down 8,8%, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) down 4,1%, S&P 500 down 4,6%, FTSE (London) down 5,9%, CAC 40 down 9,4%, DAX (Frankfurt) down 7%. And on and on and on.

Check out Z24’s stock market overview. (Fifteen minutes delay.)