Is Geir Haarde the Icelandic form of Keir Hardie?
One person suffering in the downturn had been making a nice living by going round car boot sales to buy up gold bits & pieces & selling them to a dealer in Hatton Garden as scrap. He now faces stiff competition
Do you feel that not even cash is safe these days? Antique gold jewellery is not subject to VAT – a good store of value (if you know your rubies from your garnets)
Bernard Baruch 1932: Even in the general gloom when many may begin to wonder if declines will ever halt, it is worth repeating that two and two makes four. They always did
Oh yes?
Murder is rife in the land in its most violent & its most insidious forms, & the astounding disclosures of fraudulent dealings amongst our mercantile classes - the thousand ingenious shapes which crime has assumed in the hands of the regular criminal practitioners - are all tokens which point to the necessity of stern repression - Times Leader 7 January 1856
The experience of the past shows that it is impossible, even through the attempted exercise of prophecy, to regulate the future - Select Committee on the Bank Acts 1858
