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Lloyds Banking Group's whizzy new financial instruments, CoCo notes (short for contingent convertible capital notes) are creating a bit of a stir. Writing on the Pru's Bond Vigilante blog, Ben Lord calls them "Coco the Clown"...
Transferring to UVa re-energizes former Timesland great Catherine White. CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Jason Vigilante was vacationing in Colorado -- or, maybe it was Oregon -- when he got word that Catherine White was interested in...
Three speed cameras in France and Poland were blinded with spraypaint this week. In Slupsk County in northwestern Poland, vigilantes used white spraypaint to cover the lenses of a photo radar machine. Officials expect to repair...
VIGILANTES are spiking bush tracks with metal booby traps designed to blow out tyres, apparently to deter four-wheel drivers and trail bike riders. Plates with up to eight spikes have been hidden just below the ground on tracks...
Vigilante Groups in Brazil Trump Drug Gangs and Become Rio's New Authority Today's militia is tomorrow's mafia. "You need to integrate the armed forces, the federal police and the state and local police, in a public security...
Worried by the excesses in the activities of various vigilante groups in Ondo State, the State Police Command yesterday insisted that all individuals and groups assisting the police on crime prevention and control must register...
Rebecca Solnit is most recently the author of A Paradise Built in Hell. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Finding hostility within legitimate clarification. Author: Rebecca Solnit Subjects Discussed: William James’s second treatise on...
Rolfe Winkler, CFA submits: Paul Krugman is complaining of deficit hysteria over on his blog again. Where are the bond vigilantes? he wonders. Since we’re still able to sell debt so cheaply, why is anyone worried about more...
Ben Webster, Environment Editor Environmentalists across the world are to be enlisted as armchair detectives to monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging. The fund, called Reducing Emissions from...
Reuters - India's plans to launch a major offensive against Maoist rebels in the country's heartlands could jeopardise much-needed humanitarian operations in the impoverished area, the European Commission said on Thursday.
