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THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 18 August 2009

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Sorry about the delay but stuck in airport. I have no idea where I am flying too, why I am going there and who I am. But not to worry for I will just follow the rest of the customers and clamber on board and go with the flow. I have...

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 17 August 2009

fat girl scrub

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Fat Girl Scrub.

Sorry, I have no idea how to link a cosmetic obesity cream to today's finance stories. I was thinking about Obama and his love for that old 20th century state cure all the National Health Service or maybe a way to...

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 14 August 2009

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Lunch.

After yesterday's oof news, the current crop of press release driven media content is enough to send me back to the Cipriani for a second lunch. Or is that breakfast? Is it the Jet lag or am I losing the plot and should just throw...

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 13 August 2009

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Oof.

We have a lot of oof news today. News that makes you sit up and go oof. My current location is an airport that I cannot remember and in my pocket is a boarding pass to somewhere I cannot remember. The lounge is unknown and...

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 12 August 2009

Punch Cartoon 1911

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Sept 20, 1920.

Most of you will have no idea why this is one of the most important dates in US history. In New York, 100 pounds of dynamite and assorted metal objects were driven into a business district and caused serious damage to the...

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 11 August 2009

Hold My hand

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Hold my hand.

Today I steer you through the extraordinary turn of events that is making the last 2 years a bad dream. We have disgraced Fred Goodwin back, Madoff out of prison, credit funds in vogue and the ratings agencies are back in...

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 10 August 2009

Japanese Hirst

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Jet lag.

I am on another ozone busting tour of the world during the next few weeks and I have correlated my trading performance against my time in the air. It seems the more tired I am, the grumpier and bearish I get. If I...

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 07 August 2009

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Bi-polar.

Someone commented I was bi-polar. Under normal circumstances I would go to the Doctor, for this is an unpleasant condition and depression isn't something to laugh at. But I know what they meant. The news is coming in thick and fast. If you put your...

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 06 August 2009

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Bicycles.

Lord Tebbit, a crony of Thatcher once said, although as with all the best quotes he never actually said it, was reported to say during the 1980's recession that the unemployed should get on a bike to find work.

In New York there has...

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 05 August 2009

food bailout

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West Side Nightmare.

So I spent some time in the USA and Canada hunting for anything that moved. The rest of you were enjoying low interest rates, high dividend yields and panic buying. Equities are moving upwards and general economies are moving downwards. Nice correlation.

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 04 August 2009

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I'm back and so are the good times.

4 weeks is a long time in the markets and thankfully, whilst eating bear and fighting Salmon, my positions were all long. It is like 2006 all over where even twittering monkeys could make money. Just as the...

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 24 July 2009

bear

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Finbar Taggit is living in a wooden lodge somewhere near the Canadian border. He is cold and damp and smells of fish. His thoughts are no longer connected with his sharpe ratio but more his sharp rated gun skills that have allowed him to kill fish and...