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A Huge RBS Glitch Resulted In One Man Being Stuck In Jail For A Weekend

A defendant in a court case had to spend the weekend in prison because the RBS computer failure prevented his bail money being processed, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.

The unnamed man was granted bail at Canterbury Crown Court in Kent on Friday, on condition that a surety was paid before his release.

But the computer glitch that has affected 17 million customers at RBS and two of its subsidiaries, NatWest and [...]

Terrified wife leaps off 50ft mountain ledge to escape machete gang who kidnapped her while forcing husband to withdraw cash

A wife threw herself 50ft down a mountain to escape an armed gang that held her and her husband hostage whilst they were on holiday in Ecuador.

Laura Milcawich jumped off a ledge in a desperate attempt to get away from the men who robbed her and Stephen Aube as they strolled through the woods.

The gang had ordered Mr Aube, 40, to go and withdraw $3,000 and and kept her as [...]

How JPMorgan is trying to manipulate commodity prices

From Jesse’s Café Americain:

Crony capitalists are never interested in the risk and rigor of “free markets,” only in the surety of monopolies and obtaining a license from the authorities for extracting rents from them. They alternately create artificial abundance and scarcity to influence prices, with the objective of lining their pockets.

This move by JPMorgan to enlarge their warehouses and stockpile key commodities helps to demonstrate the growing scramble for resources [...]

Why You, They And — Hell — I Might Just Buy That Parabolic Move In Gold…

by Gresham’s Law

Why You, They And — Hell — I Might Just Buy That Parabolic Move In Gold…

It may be just me, but it seems like majority of market participants are terrible at dealing with one of the rudiments of life as a human being; time. It is almost as if the herding man lives in constant contempt for his former self and dogmatic surety about his current convictions (whether they relate [...]