Thursday, November 30, 2023

#France: Commodities plateau and Winter arrives in Paradise. @RealConstable, @WSJ @BatchelorShow

By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Photograph shows a taxi being pulled from a collapsed section of Rue St. Augustin in Paris, 
after a heavy rainstorm on June 15, 1914.
Credit: Bain News Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons





Korn Ferry: A Surprising Lack of Follow-Up

By SIMON CONSTABLE

More than half of British companies don’t give exit interviews when workers quit. Are they missing out on hidden morale issues? Read more here.




Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Kiplingers Retirement Report: Stocks To Consider For The New Year

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

Investors seeking out the best stocks picks for 2024 may want to focus on these four areas of the market. Read more here.

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons




Saturday, November 25, 2023

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

WSJ: How Much Do You Know About Online-Shopping Scams?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Take our quiz to test your knowledge and find out how to protect yourself. Read more here.

Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons


Monday, November 20, 2023

CC: Israel Hunts Terrorists in the West Bank and Germany Loses the Plot

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Photo credit: Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography CollectionCC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo caption: מוצב השומר על קיבוצים בגבול עזה. Military outpost guarding kibbutzim boundaries the Gaza Strip 1967

Friday, November 10, 2023

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Constable Confidential: AirBnB-ers Up in Arms Over Scottish Holiday Rental Laws

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Joining Constable Confidential today is Fiona Campbell, CEO of the Association of Scotland's Self Caterers. She explains how new Scottish laws have made renting out your bedroom harder or prohibitively costly, depending on where you live—that and much more.


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Photo Credit: Thomas Hosmer Shepherd , Public domain, 
via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Caption: Edinburgh from Calton Hill

Forbes.com: Times Running Out For College As Student Enrollment Dwindles

By SIMON CONSTABLE

For many people the cost of getting a degree is the biggest investment they ever make. It’s supposed to be a path to higher earnings, many experts say. Read more here.

 

Haverford College. Class of 1900, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

Monday, November 6, 2023

Sunday, November 5, 2023

WSJ: Where Are Commodities Prices Headed?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

China’s economy, war in the Middle East and a predicted El Niño are among the factors experts are looking at. Read more here.


Lady Maria Mine at Charters Towers, 1891.
Early diggings on the Charters Towers mining district. Makeshift shade for the miners.
Allom, H. B., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Thursday, November 2, 2023

#France: BUY Japan, Defence, Energy for the long wars ahead, @RealConstable, Kiplinger's Retirement Report @BatchelorShow

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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State Archives of North Carolina, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons 
Photograph of a pilot and his aerial observer with the 278th Aero Squadron, 2nd U.S. Army Air Service, pictured seated in their airplane on an airfield in France during World War I (undated) [Photograph taken by or collected by Henry L. Graves].

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

CONSTABLE CONFIDENTIAL: Mid-east Update: Yemen Fires Rockets At Israel and Israel Braces for an Attack from the Lebanon

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Photo caption: soldiers in the Gaza Strip 1956


Constable Confidential: U.S. Refuses To Offer Passports to Non-American Hostages Held in Gaza

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

Ben Weinthal joins Constable Confidential from Jerusalem to discuss his recent story about lobby groups urging the U.S. and other countries to give hostages held in Gaza citizenship.

So far, no country is offering such potential refuge.


Photo caption: Great Britain: The children of Polish Jews from the region between Germany and Poland on their arrival in London on the "Warsaw".

Photo credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S69279 / CC-BY-SA 3.0CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons.




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