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Subject: [Leica] Seen this?
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Thu Jan 29 06:23:16 2009
References: <989154.45435.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <3cad89990901271848o511c9c45n8923b923b03fd08e@mail.gmail.com> <B44C4437-58B2-470A-ABEC-CCAF6FA3697B@btinternet.com> <3cad89990901280222w36c6876bi8ac1b0e3bf187270@mail.gmail.com> <3cad89990901281921k35c3d28cg955eec3679afd0c7@mail.gmail.com>

You have to love the FT.  They have a somewhat long article from George
Soros today that explains a lot of why the financial markets are tanking
around the world.  I recommend this link highly.

<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/49b1654a-ed60-11dd-bd60-0000779fd2ac.html>

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj 
<jayanand@gmail.com>wrote:

> Frank,
> Today's news:
>
> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c9a83fc6-ed06-11dd-88f3-0000779fd2ac.html
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > The economy is retracting at a far quicker rate than other countries
> right
> > now. The main reason is that the strong yen has caused exports to
> decrease
> > at an alarming rate - even Toyota and Honda are doing dismally, and the
> less
> > said about the likes of Sony the better. With demand constriction in
> their
> > major markets, i.e., USA and Europe, things dont look too good for export
> > led economies - China, Japan, South East Asia, etc. India is slightly
> better
> > placed on this score as only 15% of our GDP comes from exports - but we
> have
> > huge current account deficits which means you can do far less to prime
> the
> > economy. The jury is out on who fares better.
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Frank Dernie <
> Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jayanand,
> >> is Japan crashing more???
> >> I thought their only problems were due to their strengths, less
> borrowing
> >> etc. leads to their currency not devaluing as much as others, such as
> the US
> >> and UK which have both been living way beyond their earnings for years.
> >> Surely their problem is that their profligate customers have stopped
> >> spending other peoples money.
> >> Frank
> >>
> >> On 28 Jan, 2009, at 02:48, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> >>
> >>  Usual marketing nonsense. I am not sure how many takers there would be
> in
> >>> current economic conditions, particularly as Japan is crashing a bit
> more
> >>> than the rest of the world. I assume that this is squarely aimed at the
> >>> Japanese.
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Jayanand
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Bill Clough <bill_clough@yahoo.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  USA
> >>>> TEXAS
> >>>> VICTORIA
> >>>> 27 January 2009
> >>>>
> >>>> HI there--
> >>>>
> >>>>  Drool.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> http://en.leica-camera.com/photography/special_editions/leica_M8-2_safari/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --bc
> >>>>
> >>>>
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-- 
Don
don.dory@gmail.com

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