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Vive la France!Taipan Group's Dynamic Market AlertBy J. Christoph AmbergerA Newly Created Investment Fund Has Just Gone Public! -------------------------- Vive la France!by J. Christoph Amberger Napoleon Bonaparte had a dream: Establish a French empire with subservient satellites from North Africa to the Ural Mountains, united by common law and a Francocentric economy. He ran into a bit of a problem. Les rosbifs -- today they call them Anglo-Saxons in France -- didn’t play. And then there was some unpleasant business in Russia. But while Napoleon didn’t live to see his dream turn into lasting realities, he can rest in peace that it took less than 200 years for his heirs to accomplish it. Today, it’s called European Union. Again, the rosbifs are a constant source of ennui. And while the Germans have happily assumed the role of a well-trained French poodle when it comes to French foreign policy, the Russians remain outside their immediate influence. (Until Gazprom manages to strike a deal with the Champs Elyssées, that is.) Britain’s struggle against Napoleon provides the backdrop of the popular Sharpe novels by British author Bernard Cornwell. I’m a bit of a Sharpe addict, making sure I have my order for every new installment placed with the British subsidiary of Amazon.com well in advance of the publication date. (This way, I have the volume in my hands weeks before it comes out in the States.) As a writer, Cornwell is rather successful at his game. He’s reportedly sold more than 45 million copies of his 40-some novels. No matter where you go, chances are that there’s a bookstore carrying at least a couple of Sharpe novels in the fiction section. That is, unless you go to Amazon.fr, Amazon.com’s French subsidiary. There, you can almost sense the disdain with which the site’s search function processes your request: “Sharpe, ‘oo?” All you find is a couple of Cornwell’s medieval adventure books. Apparently, there’s no French market for books in which the antagonists are French. Coming from a country defeated in not just one but two world wars, I find this curious. It would be unimaginable in Germany that a popular line of entertainment or culture would be suppressed because the villains are Nazis. To the contrary: After all, Hogan’s Heroes replaced Seinfeld in Germany, back in the 1990s. The American journalist Kenneth R. Timmerman wrote back in 2004: “[According to French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin], the real struggle in today’s world... is not between freedom and tyranny, but between the French religion of the all-powerful state and the Anglo-American system of transparency, checks and balances, which [Villepin] reminds his readers ‘inspired only contempt’ when the original generation of French revolutionaries looked across the Atlantic for support in 1793. ... Americans need to understand that our values and our model pose a challenge for the French, who have consistently favored authoritarian regimes over democracy, not just in the third world but also in Europe, where they still are attempting to force an autocratic constitution for the European Union down the throats of the newly liberated nations of the former Soviet bloc.” No wonder, then, that Sharpe’s a mite unpopular as a concept... -- Sacre bleu! Two months after gold took its magnificent reverse half pike off the thirty-foot tower, oil prices fell to their lowest level in five months today. Talking heads blamed “larger-than-expected build in U.S. distillate and gasoline stocks” before falling back on old standbys such as the “end of the U.S. driving season.” U.S. crude inventories now are 6% higher than a year ago, with more piling up. Frederic Lasserre, head of commodities research at Societe Generale, said “I think we have probably another $10 potential downside on oil, not very, very short term, but more by the end of the year.” So how about Iran as the wild card? Let’s face it: Neither the U.N. nor the EU have the guts to impose sanctions on Iran. They’re not even going to replace the red carpet they’re rolling out for Iranian diplomats with red shag rugs. China and Russia simply won’t stand for that. After all, who do you think sold the mullahs their uranium enrichment equipment in the first place? The only threat to oil is the possibility of another terrorist attack on tankers or major production facilities. And even here, the risk premium has been priced in since January 2003. -- According to recent news stories, toddlers can identify the Coke or Burger King logos before they can even count to 10. Girls as young as five years old, according to the 10th International Congress on Obesity, are “sensitive about their bodies in a ‘weight hostile’ environment… Children are sensitive at an increasingly early age to their physical appearance.” Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions. About 22 million children under the age of five are overweight worldwide. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, in the United States alone, the number of overweight children has doubled “and the number of overweight adolescents has tripled since 1980.” “The prevalence of obese children aged 6 to 11 years has more than doubled since the 1960s.” According to Kate Steinbeck, a children’s health expert at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, says, “The children in this generation may be the first in history to die before their parents because of health problems related to weight.” But in an effort to avert such life shortening threats, “nation’s public schools are under orders to adopt nutrition and exercise goals before classes resume in the fall,” reads one article by The Associated Press. “The written wellness policies are required by a federal law that took effect July 1.”
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