Far East Cynic

Still here!

The lack of posting is not a good thing-but it cannot be helped. I have been on the go since I got here. Pix to follow from my trip to the mountains this weekend.

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Plusses and minuses.

Arrived in Bucharest/ The trip had good things to recommend it and bad things to forget. On the plus side , I got re-routed through Houston, since my flight to DC was  not going to make it in time. (Weather and FAA delay). So I got put in Business Class

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Fufilling one’s obligations

Which means-that despite recent presonal economic news, life and work goes on. Accordingly, I will be getting on a plane today and flying the long three leg route back to Bucharest, there to work for a month, before moving on to (insert bleak future prospects here). Why not just tell

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Checking all the blocks

At the agency I work for ( well, at least for the next month or so)-they were ranked in the bottom in terms of being a “good place to work”. Havng watched their new contracting strategy-I tend to agree whole heartedly. And unforuntately real change to this agency will not

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Why don’t we ban it here?

Finally, people are waking up to the fact that its time to tell the short sellers to go home: A European market regulator announced Thursday night that short-selling of financial stocks in several countries would be temporarily banned in an effort to stop the tailspin in the markets. The move

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It probably beats investing these days……

Another place to put your money: Earlier today, a plane flew over S&P headquarters trailing a banner that read: Thanks for the downgrade, you should all be fired. Fortune has learned that the person who paid to fly the banner is a Midwestern broker, who woke up last night with

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The 7% solution

In two weeks-my savings and investments have lost almost 6% of their value. Money that it took me years to cobble together-gone. At least for now. But it could have been a lot worse-A LOT WORSE. Fortunately, I got some good advice and have invested in some pretty strong stocks-so

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I sure wish I could remember this.

It would save me a heck of a lot of pain and suffering. ( Stolen from Spike).

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“Fix the link”

I used to say that to a friend of mine on the staff-whenever I went down to visit him in TFCC. Because in the Eisenhower Battle Group in 1994-1995, the link picture ( Link-11 primarily and some Link-16) was always f*cked up. The blame normally lay with a weak track

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