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The grim reality that is France, happiness indexes notwithstanding

The French way of life can be as brutal and nasty as any other around the world and no amount of papering over with nice talk can avoid the facts.

Wall St endgame? S&P drops a $265b bombshell

Just when everyone was wondering if the US Federal Reserve’s 0.50% rate cut would do the trick and start stabilising the crisis-ridden US economy, ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, delivered a bombshell, writes Glenn Dyer.