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This Rebel Came Armed With a Balance Sheet
Submitted by loner on 29 November, 2010 - 10:58am- Alexander Hamilton
- America
- army
- Charles Rappleye
- Chesapeake
- Christmas
- Delaware
- Europe
- finance
- food
- Founding Fathers
- Gordon
- Great Britain
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- Indies
- Liverpool
- New Jersey
- New York City
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Rappleye's "Robert Morris
- Revolution
- Robert Morris
- Silas Deane
- United Kingdom
- Washington
- Washington's camp
- West Indies
When most people think about the American Revolution, they think about the remarkable ideals that lay behind it and that guide the country still, or they think of the war itself, with Gen. Washington's men freezing and half-starved at Valley Forge.
What doesn't come to mind very often is how the Revolution was paid for. "Wars are fought with silver bullets," according to a Chinese saying, meaning that the side with the most money usually wins. But in the case of the Revolution, Great Britain—the richest country in Europe and the possessor of the most advanced financial system—lost despite its silver bullets. And it lost to a ragtag bunch of former colonies that didn't have a regular money supply, let alone a financial system. Nor did the rebels have the capacity to manufacture arms or gunpowder in any quantity.
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In Quest for 'Legal High,' Chemists Outfox Law
Submitted by loner on 31 October, 2010 - 12:52pm- ANTWERP
- Bank
- Belgium
- chemical
- chemicals
- China
- Christmas
- David Llewellyn
- David Nichols
- Dutch police
- Europe
- food
- Glasgow
- Heathrow Airport
- James Brokenshire
- JEANNE WHALEN ANTWERP
- Jeanne Whalen
- John Ramsey
- Kate Willmer
- Les Iversen
- Lisbon
- plastics
- Purdue University
- Purdue University
- Roumen Sedefov
- Scotland
- Southeast Asia
- State Food and Drug Administration
- steel
- Sweden
- The Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- University of London
- University of London
- USD
- www.alchemylabz.eu
ANTWERP, Belgium—When the housing market crashed in 2008, David Llewellyn's construction business went with it.
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ABN marks time with new indices
Submitted by loner on 3 December, 2005 - 10:47pm- ABN Amro
- ABN AMRO Holding NV
- Australia
- Christmas
- Europe
- FTSE International
- FTSE INTL
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- http://news.ft.com
- investment products
- Italy
- Japan
- Research Affiliates
- Robert Arnott
- Spain
- Standard & Poor's
- Standard & Poor's Corp
- Switzerland
- The Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- US technology
ABN Amro has launched a new range of stock market indices, designed to outperform traditional benchmarks with the aid of market timing. The new indices, which will be independently calculated by Standard & Poor's, will be called the ABN Amro Alpha range.
The indices are based on the observation that investors tend to reduce risk in the approach to the end of the month or to public holidays such as Christmas. ABN Amro believes this is because traders usually have to report profits and losses at the end of these periods. They accordingly wish to "lock in" their gains.
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