Monthly Archives: November 2010

Update: QE Opponents Write Open Letter to Ben Bernanke

By Martin Fluck | Published: November 16, 2010
Expect currency debasement and inflation is what the US can expect if it maintains its present course, warn 23 economists and political analysts in an open letter to the Wall Street Journal, on 15 November. This nicely summarises the differences between the Fed and the opponents of its quantitative easing programme.
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Threat to YouTube As UK Government Turns Spotlight on Hate Videos

By Martin Fluck | Published: November 3, 2010
US websites like YouTube now face being taken down in the UK, if they do not remove al-Qaeda’s hate videos from their site. Such is the anger amongst UK government ministers about the failure of YouTube to remove content that incites murder, that serious pressure will be put on US politicians to change the law governing online intermediaries.
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