<within one hundred years under the
"Peace of Frankfort" signed on the 10th May, 1871, the French nation
agreed to pay a war indemnity to victorious Germany of exactly the
same sum, namely, $1,000,000,000 in addition to the surrender of the
province of Alsace and a considerable part of Lorraine. The great
addition to the national wealth, therefore, effected by the immoral
confiscation of the lands in question disappeared with compound
territorial interest added under the visitation of relentless
retribution.>
Jay, we are all prisoners of history in one way or another. That article has personal reverberation, with my father's mother having escaped as a child from the clutches of Germany having moved from Alsace during the war, surviving the siege of Paris and making it to NZ with mother and two sisters.
Now, we have more of the same, with Hu Jintao's gang wanting to take over Taiwan for fun and profit. Territorial megalomania continues to disrupt lives and create fear.
Meanwhile, the competitive fiat currency megapixelations continue apace with the financial relativity effects becoming evident in the housing industry, not to mention GM; and GE you think?
I got a case of drooling when I ogled those housing links you gave [and I took the long term view].
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