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Rising prices for slow snails

By Prieur du Plessis, on April 16th, 2008 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

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Magazine covers, especially as far as international publications are concerned, frequently get their timing wrong on “big picture” events. As such, covers are often used as contrarian indicators. Intuitively it does not seem that this will be the plight of the cover of the latest Economist, but let’s keep an eye on how events unfold. Please read on … [...]

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