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A few random ramblings on the markets and the macro investing situation to start the week:
Iraq
The turmoil and chaos in Iraq is putting a bid under the energy markets. This of course is helping to escalate the price of crude oil and energy cost worl...
DATE: Jun 30, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
You asked, Mr Editor, for my take on the 2014/15 Budget. Here you go in no particular order: —
First, I thought the Statement was pretty faithful. It followed the One Bermuda Alliance script as we have come to know it since their election. There were...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
My big girl just turned six and we celebrated with a trip to La Trattoria.
The usual happy madness ensued, complete with a few flying drinks and washroom adventures.
As always the staff were amazing. I do wonder if the manager medicates his team befo...
DATE: Jan 17, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
LEARN. LIVE. LOVE. There is one important NEW Year’s wish today that I have for the readers of Moneywise. And it is, that everyone learns to become independent and technically proficient in the new electronic age, and in the process, loves taking car...
DATE: Dec 28, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
I don’t know whether you know, but there is a committee of the Legislature that has been meeting secretly on the Hill, doing some pretty important work. I know because I was called to appear before the committee recently. They wanted to grill me abou...
DATE: Dec 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
Somebody somewhere, I bet, must have thought that they were pretty darn clever. I don’t. First of all it took them practically a year to come up with the referendum question. Secondly, none of us likes to be played for a fool or for stupid. The quest...
DATE: Dec 06, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
The following is a response by Shadow Minister of Workforce Development Rolfe Commissiong to employment expert Doug Soares’ recent Rotary Club speech on why some Bermudians struggle to compete for jobs in our economy
Firstly, Mr. Soares needs to be c...
DATE: Nov 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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It was more than a little disconcerting to see the announcement that Bermuda was placed on France’s tax haven list. One would think that there had to be a substantive reason for this pre-emptive label-tarnishing directly before the G20 meeting that j...
DATE: Sep 07, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Hope you all had a great holiday and have now fully-recovered.
There were definitely many sad post-Cup Match weekend faces on Monday, not to mention the ones who looked like they were positively hanging by a thread!
Think that your summer fun is now ...
DATE: Aug 09, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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Nothing to do in Bermuda?
You can’t beat the wit of Oscar Wilde. “I live in constant fear of not being misunderstood”, he once lamented. Of course Mr Wilde was no politician. Politicians have the opposite lament: they want to be always understood whatever they say however the...
DATE: Jul 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
