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USS Mohawk Underwater Exhibition

USS Mohawk Underwater Exhibition

The sunken USS Mohawk has opened its first underwater dive accessible only exhibition, giving diving enthusiasts an exciting dimension to their next dive. The USS Mohawk is a 165-foot World War II cutter, which was sunk in July 2012 about 28 nautical miles off Sanibel...
Quidditch World Cup in Kissimmee

Quidditch World Cup in Kissimmee

Kissimmee, Florida hosted the 2013 Quidditch World Cup last weekend which was won by the University of Texas. Eighty teams and 1,600 athletes from across the United States, France, Canada and Mexico competed for the title of the world’s best Quidditch team....
Fake Debt and Funny Money

Fake Debt and Funny Money

The US Federal Reserve’s policy of buying debt instruments with money it’s creating out of thin air – currently at the extraordinary rate of more than a trillion dollars’ worth every year – is the right thing to do, because it doesn’t add to the net amount of US debt...
Outlook After the Election

Outlook After the Election

Now the uncertainty of the US presidential contest has been removed, investment markets have shifted their focus to other major uncertainties – the “fiscal cliff,” the European comic opera, the China slowdown. I suspect they will continue to weigh on the markets for a...
US marks 9/11 anniversary

US marks 9/11 anniversary

Washington – Eleven years after the attacks on 11 September 2001, New Yorkers will mark the anniversary on Tuesday against a backdrop of health concerns for emergency workers and a feud over financing that has stopped construction of the $1 billion Ground Zero...