Clearly, investors aren't taking their cues from the real economy, at least in the UK. Nor do they seem to paying much attention to governments.
Nor are they all targeted at the poor: many of the world's poorest people live neither in the 50 least developed countries nor in Europe's ex-colonies.
In reality, neither the ECB nor anyone else can credibly take responsibility for the single currency in the markets, or at least not yet.
Neither Monica Lewinsky nor President Clinton had made any statements under oath in the Jones case (at least that had been filed with any court) when Linda Tripp approached the OIC on January 12.
Bruce Riedel, a CIA veteran who is now a Brookings Institution senior fellow, said al-Qaida has had a clandestine presence in Iran since at least 2001 and that neither the terror group nor Tehran speak openly about it.
Nor is it very easy to be a Kosovar Serb anywhere else, least of all in the Serbian motherland.
If people have started to increase short positions in bonds this at the very least represents growing concern that prices may not rise forever, nor yields keep on falling.
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There has been no indication that Mr Tung is even thinking of stepping down, nor that China (which effectively gave him the job in 1997) wants him to do so at least not yet.
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Nor does it seem to have been a revolution, not least because the protests as Anne Applebaum suggested in the Washington Post may well have been a bit of stagecraft cooked up by the government. (In a country paranoid about Romanian revanchism, the protesters flew a Romanian flag over the Parliament building.) In the Iranian case, meanwhile, the people tweeting about the demonstrations were almost all in the West.
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