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Just Say No – To Minarets The Swiss people have passed a ban on all minaret (a Moslem tower from which prayers are sung) construction within the country – despite the Swiss government’s active campaign against the ban. Unsurprisingly, worldwide criticism quickly flooded European media outlets. Presumably, tolerance should be extended to everyone – except [...]

In a wild and crazy financial story (no… really!), two Japanese citizens were caught by Italian border patrol agents while on a train at Chiasso headed to Switzerland with an unusual amount of foreign bonds. To be clear, by “foreign bonds” in this case I mean American. And by “an unusual amount”, I mean $134,500,000,000 [...]