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The Amazing Spider-Man preview
There's good reason to be skeptical of The Amazing Spider-Man. Because it's a licensed movie game, it inherently draws suspicion. But there's even more reason for doubt: it comes from Beenox, whose last game (Spider-Man: Edge of Time), was critically panned. Even worse: this game comes mere months after the release of the last game--and is far more ambitious to boot. So how are we supposed to expect that this new release from Activision isn't just a cash cow?
By throwing Edge of Time under a bus, of course.
An Activision rep tells us that The Amazing Spider-Man has been in development for over two years. Although the Beenox name has been attached to every Spider-Man game since the franchise was annualized by Activision, there are two teams at the studio. Once development on the relatively well-received Shattered Dimensions was wrapped up, that team (lovingly nicknamed the "Amazing" team) moved on to start working on The Amazing Spider-Man. However, with Edge of Time also shipped, "pretty much everyone" at Beenox is working on finishing the game before its planned June release.
With that in mind, maybe there is some hope for the game. And based on an early hands-off demo I attended recently, I'll say that Beenox has a chance of doing right by gamers.
As with most recent movie adapted games, the game is not a direct translation of the events of the movie. In fact, it takes place after the movie, which affords Beenox the ability to introduce additional villains from the Marvel universe, such as The Rhino. The developers are quite pleased with this, as it tasks them with the responsibility of crafting new origin stories for these characters for the rebooted franchise.
Obviously, the biggest draw of The Amazing Spider-Man has to be the ability to free-roam in Manhattan, a feature that's been long-missing in Spider-Man games. The entire city island is available from the beginning of the game (but don't try to go to the outer boroughs--Spider-Man won't let you). It's a decent recreation of the city, with iconic landmarks and locations scattered throughout--but it's still no Grand Theft Auto IV. The city feels less detailed and less "alive."
In addition to a number of collectibles scattered throughout the environment, there will be side missions that pop up whilst swinging through the city. For example, one mini-game has you chasing an escaping vehicle. You must stop the car by landing on its hood and webbing it before it can reach one of the bridges out of town.
While the open world will be a much-appreciated return to form, Beenox is changing up many of the core gameplay elements to make Amazing feel drastically different from previous games. Taking a page from the Batman: Arkham series, the camera is pulled much closer to the character. Combat, for example, looks to be a direct rip of Rocksteady's "FreeFlow" system, where you can easily move from enemy to enemy. Given the success of the Arkham games, that's certainly not a bad model to follow.
In fact, moving around the environment can seem reminiscent of the Arkham games. Stealth is heavily encouraged, and in one sequence I saw, I saw Spider-Man jumping from corner to corner, performing stealth takedowns on unassuming thugs. Through a feature called "Web Rush," Spider-Man can slow down time and scan his environment for interactive objects, such as explosive gas canisters and heavy things that can fall on enemies. Essentially, you too can be swinging around, scaring your enemies for fun.
Web Rush is undoubtedly Beenox's greatest innovation with The Amazing Spider-Man, and it certainly shows a lot of potential, especially outside of combat. When navigating the environment (indoor or outdoor), Web Rush activates a cursor which shows a silhouette of what Spider-Man will do at the pointed spot. No matter where you aim, the game will figure out a way to navigate you to that point "in a way that only Spider-Man can do." For example, you can point at the side of a building, and Spider-Man will swing, run atop a moving bus, jump onto a streetlight, and land on the building. The animation is always dynamically generated, and is definitely impressive.
Without getting hands-on time with the game, it's impossible to gauge if Beenox's latest effort plays well. There's certainly a number of good ideas; Web Rush being only one example. Another nice touch I appreciated: a fake Twitter feed that appears during loading screens. In addition to the typical inane comments you're bound to see online, you'll see how civilians are responding to your actions. It's a cute touch that makes you feel like a greater part of a living world. However, there were still some clear issues with the game: the visuals are rather disappointing, and the dynamically generated Web Rush animations looked a bit unnatural at times.
The Amazing Spider-Man will be available on PS3 and Xbox 360 on June 26th. Activision offered a "no comment" about a possible PC release.
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The Covenant of Mayors Covenant of Mayors The Covenant of Mayors is the mainstream European movement involving local and regional authorities in the fight against climate change. It is based on a voluntary commitment by signatories to meet and exceed the EU 20% CO2 reduction objective through increased energy efficiency and development of renewable energy sources. is not a stand-alone initiative. Quite to the contrary, it strongly interacts with a wide range of projects, policies and initiatives from European institutions, public administrations and networks.
European Commission - DG Energy - Intelligent Energy - Europe (IEE) programme
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This website includes a partner search system with some 4000 organisations, including 380 energy agencies, which can provide valuable expertise and partnerships on energy activities at local and regional levels. You are most welcome to register for the ManagEnergy Initiative including the monthly newsletter.
ManagEnergy also offers free internet broadcast facilities including more than 1000 individual video presentations, speeches and interviews on topical energy matters.
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The EU has set three key targets which it hopes will put Europe on the right track - towards a sustainable future.
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The Pact of Islands is a binding instrument with which island authorities will enter into a political engagement in order to meet the objectives of the project.
The three-page document is structured in a manner similar to the Covenant of Mayors and is taking into account the particularities of European island communities. The Pact of Islands signatories make a number of significant commitments, such as:
to go beyond the objectives set by the EU for 2020, reducing the CO2 emissions in their respective territories by at least 20%;
to submit an Islands Sustainable Energy Action Plan including a Baseline Emission Inventory which outlines how the objectives will be reached;
to submit an implementation report at least every second year following the submission of the Action Plan for evaluation, monitoring and verification purposes;
to organise Energy Days, in cooperation with the European Commission and with other stakeholders, allowing citizens to benefit directly from the opportunities and advantages offered by a more intelligent use of energy, and to regularly inform the local media on developments concerning the action plan;
to attend and contribute to events organised by European Institutions relating to the Pact of Islands & the Covenant of Mayors;
to mobilise sustainable energy investments in their respective territories.
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The overall objective of the CONCERTO Premium initiative is to work out a robust data and information base that serves as a basis for setting regulatory frameworks and decision support for investors. This will ensure a sustained effect of the CONCERTO initiative with respect to a widespread application/replication of the results and promotion of the implementation of climate protection measures in urban areas of the EU and neighbouring countries.
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CIVITAS is an EU initiative researching and demonstrating practical and policy-related measures that contribute to sustainable urban transport. Since 2002, 58 European cities have benefitted from EU co-funding that helped improve their accessibility and citizens' quality of life.
Facts and figures:
- To date CIVITAS has demonstrated 658 measures in 58 cities through 13 projects
- Through CIVITAS, EUR 250 million was spent to improve urban mobility and quality of life, where 72 percent was co-funded by the EC
- Its 58 cities are accompanied by a further 128 (e.g.: Tirana, Brussels, Antalya, Athens, Madrid, Warsaw) who benefit from the accumulated know-how, experience, lessons-learned.
- Together they constitute the CIVITAS Forum Network – that's 68 million citizens in 31 countries
- CIVITAS PLUS II will herald the fourth phase of the Initiative and is envisaged to run until 2016
CIVITAS – A voluntary mechanism to realise EU targets
• Today air quality remains challenged in urban environments, especially by the transport sector where expensive and long-lasting policies are needed, e.g. transfer to cleaner technologies
• Cleaner and safer transport can help fulfill air quality targets laid down in the 2008 CAFÉ Directive - and address the priorities highlighted by the 6th EAP
• Forum Network members sign the 'CIVITAS Declaration' - a non-binding voluntary agreement to implement and integrate 'sustainable urban mobility' measures e.g.
– clean fuels and vehicles
– transport demand management strategies
– less car dependency, e.g. through bike use, walking
– collective passenger transport services…
…commonly within the framework of a Plan or 'SUMP'
• Member cities' technical experts and politicians meet annually to exchange experiences and lessons learned in measure implementation, in dialogue with European Commission representatives
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BUILD UP is a new environment for building professionals, local authorities and building occupants willing to share their experience on how to cut energy consumption in buildings. Diversity is a major strength of the EU and BUILD UP will promote the exchange of all the best practices, tools and technologies available across Europe for an effective implementation of energy-saving measures in buildings. When it comes to climate change and security of energy supply, there is no easy fix. It is only by working together that we will achieve a real impact.
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The urban mobility portal
The Eltis web portal facilitates the exchange of information and good practice in the field of urban mobility in Europe. Eltis supports the creation of urban transport systems, which use less energy and produce less emissions, while improving the competitiveness of urban areas and the mobility and quality of life of its citizens.Created more than 10 years ago, Eltis is now Europe's main  portal on urban mobility, with more than 1400 implementation case studies online in several languages, and daily news updates on what's going on around Europe. EU funding information, updates on EU legislation, videos, a tools section and a free image library complement the offer.
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European Programme for Urban Sustainable Development
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The INTERREG IVC Programme is part of the European Territorial Cooperation Objective of the Structural Fund policies for the period 2007-2013. It aims, by means of interregional cooperation, to improve the effectiveness of regional development policies and contribute to economic modernisation and increased competitiveness of Europe, by:
* Enabling local and regional actors across the EU to exchange their experiences and knowledge;
* Matching regions less experienced in a certain policy field with more advanced regions;
* Ensuring the transfer of good practices into Structural Funds mainstream programmes.
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"DG Information Society & Media pursues an integrated approach to achieving the Information Society, encompassing an evolving regulatory environment which emphasises competition and lets the market decide on technology; a world-class research programme which pools Europe's resources for world leadership; and a range of programmes designed to promote wider use , demonstrate innovative technologies and ensure that the benefits are felt by all".
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Ensuring the best use and uptake of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by EU citizens, businesses and administrations is one the key objectives of the i2010 strategic framework. The ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) aims at stimulating innovation and competitiveness through the wider uptake and best use of ICT by citizens, governments and businesses, particularly Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The approach is based on leveraging innovation in response to growing societal demands.
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The European Union, composed of the Member States and the European Commission, is the world's biggest aid donor. The Commission's EuropeAid co-operation office manages EU external aid programmes and ensures that development assistance is delivered worldwide.
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The Directorate-General for the Environment is one of the more than 40 Directorates-General and services that make up the European Commission. Commonly referred to as DG Environment, the objective of the Directorate-General is to protect, preserve and improve the environment for present and future generations. To achieve this it proposes policies that ensure a high level of environmental protection in the European Union and that preserve the quality of life of EU citizens. The four priorities of the DG for the years 2002 to 2012 are climate change; nature and biodiversity; environment, health and quality of life; and natural resources and waste.
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Summary of EU legistlation on Energy Efficiency.
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The Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the political assembly that provides local and regional authorities with a voice at the heart of the European Union.
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|European Mobility Week
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Each year, from 16 to 22 September the European cities and towns will have the opportunity to participate to the most widespread event on sustainable mobility, the European Mobility Week.
A full week of events dedicated to sustainable mobility will be organised in more than 2200 cities and towns.
Why such a campaign?
Such an undertaking arose from a finding: Europeans are very worried about pollution and urban mobility. In town, many people complain of a poor quality of life: air pollution, noise pollution, overcrowding, etc. And yet, the number of cars is increasing...
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Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign
A European Campaign to change the landscape of energy: Sustainable Energy Europe is a European Commission initiative in the framework of the Intelligent Energy - Europe Programme, which will contribute to achieve the European Union's energy policy targets within the fields of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, clean transport and alternative fuels.
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Over the years, the OPEN DAYS has grown into the key event on EU Regional Policy. It welcomes some 6 000 participants in October each year (local, regional, national and European decision-makers and experts) for more than 100 workshops and debates, exhibitions and networking opportunities.
In addition to the Brussels-based workshops, some 250 local events are run from September to November all over Europe.
The next OPEN DAYS will be held from 7-10 October 2013.
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|Green Week
The biggest annual conference on European environment policy turns the spotlight this year on the multi-faceted challenges of climate change.
* What are the prospects for reaching a new global deal to control climate change at the crucial Copenhagen conference in December?
* How can we best 'climate-proof' our economies against the impacts of present and future climate change?
* How can we create a carbon-free society by 2050?
* How can we ensure action to address climate change best serves conservation of the ecosystems that support life on Earth?
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The Council of European Municipalities was founded in Geneva in 1951 by a group of European mayors; later, it opened its ranks to the regions and became the Council of European Municipalities and Regions.
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Energy Cities is the association of European local authorities promoting local sustainable energy policies.
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|LG Climate Roadmap
Leading local government associations world-wide, representing communities around the globe, are driving the Local Government Climate Roadmap, a process started in December 2007, during COP 13, to advocate for a strong and comprehensive post-2012 global climate agreement, which will be hopefully adopted during COP 15 in Copenhagen, December 2009.
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action. The European CCP Campaign represents more tnan 61 million citizens across the wider European region.
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|Climate Portal of the Alpine Convention
The webpage of the Alpine Convention on Climate Change has the purpose to contribute to the implementation of the Action Plan on Climate Change in the Alps adopted in March 2009 by the Contracting Parties of the Alpine Convention. The Alpine States have agreed that the time has come to act collectively and at a large scale to make the Alpine region a model region regarding the problem of climate change, and this website shall be an interactive tool to support this objective. The site proposes reference texts, relevant publications and bibliographies, as well as a "knowledge centre", which recollects useful addresses of the main actors at local and regional level supporting or carrying concrete measures on climate change. The Good Practice and the News & Events windows allow the actors on the field to submit their experiences and share their initiatives regarding climate action in the Alps.
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The Starlight Initiative aims to fight against the harmful effects of light pollution that is a growing problem in our cities and municipalities. The waste of outdoor lighting increases energy consumption and is economically unjustified. It also increases the level of emissions that contribute to climate change.
Starlight Cities and Municipalities will commit to:
• promote and replicate best practices in cities' outdoor lighting, aiming to increase energy efficiency of 20% at least, and to decrease light pollution of no less than 20%.
• disseminate successful ordinances and regulations on responsible outdoor lighting among local authorities.
• promote sustainable lighting plans respectful of night sky quality and energy efficiency.
• disseminate and recommend the best eco-efficient and innovative light technologies.
• develop outreach and training actions addressed to local people, local authorities and those in charge of outdoor lighting.
• disseminate the Practical Guide for Outdoor Lighting among the main stakeholders and local authorities.
The Starlight Initiative relies on the support of UNESCO-MaB, IAC, IAU and other international organizations.
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Leadership Education at Duke Divinity will present a new program, Building Trust in Teams, in May. Using the metaphor of improvisational theater, participants in teams of two to three from a variety of Christian institutions will learn how to trust their own abilities to lead an organization while also building trust in the teams they are charged to lead.
The program will be hosted at Duke University's Sheafer Theater May 4-5. Participants will be introduced to a variety of concepts important to the work of leading Christian institutions. Learn more about the event [1].


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Before anyone asks I didn't rip this from the game, if you compare my version to the original I'm sure you'll find some subtle differences because I made this mostly from memory.
I didn't generate the sounds myself but instead used some preset VSTs I found.
If anyone wants to use this in a flash then feel free to do so.
I apologise if someone has already uploaded something like this.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars May 23, 2013
Not bad. But, you can add some effects, to make the music better.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars May 4, 2013
It sounds good and all but...
What's the point of remixing a song already in 8-bit? Yes I am aware of the differences butt eh. Then again it's all good man nice way to put your own spin on it.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars October 3, 2009
its okay..
Its better than most others but you could have done better.
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Road Trip USA – done and dusted
We did it!
See the separate website www.road-trip-usa.co.uk
Road Trip USA
The road trip is definitely on! Have decided to bring it forward to the start of March so a lot to get sorted out.
Road Trip idea
I finished work this week after nine years with the same company. Seems like a window of opportunity to do something different. Olly starts school in September so we are thinking about a family road trip adventure later in the year! Possibly hiring an RV and going round the USA (or at least a bit of it). Loads of stuff to think about but the planning should be fun!
Malmesbury Carnival – Saturday 3rd September
SaturdayCharlotte and Olly went on the pre-school float (and helped to build it). The theme was "Aliens Love Underpants". Jim and Toby watched the procession (mainly from outside the Hog with Andy). Fun fair in the evening and another cracking day.
Charlotte's Birthday Party – 13th August
Saturday 13th August we hosted a party at home for Charlotte's birthday. Gazebo back out, bouncy castle hired, loads of booze and food and tons of family and friends. A fantastic day and in the evening Uncle Ian organized a drunken drawing game.
Toby's 2nd Birthday!
A lovely couple of days. Mum, Dad, Warren and Charlie came round on Saturday. We sampled a few beverages under the new gazebo. On Sunday all the kids came round for a bun fight, then we went off to Sherston in the afternoon for the Duck Race!
Take That, Millennium Stadium 15th June
Charlotte and Jim went to see Take That (with Robbie) in Cardiff. They put on a great show.
Tractor Ted day at Cirencester on a very wet Bank Holiday Monday
The roundabout was one of the driest places there.
Toby is now out of a cot and into a bed…
..and none of us are getting much sleep!


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Recent corporate results show that even if you can accurately predict a company's earnings, the market's reaction is still much harder to get right.
As the most-recent "earnings season" winds down, it's worth looking at the overall message from the stock market so far.
Heading in to this earnings season, I was not expecting a lot of positive reports from the companies I follow, due to weak gross domestic product worldwide and the strong dollar. But I was especially interested to see if poor results and/or lowered guidance could take the overall stock market lower, or whether bad news would be ignored.
Thus, I was paying particular attention to some of the larger names in the technology sector as a litmus test for real economic strength.
History teaches us that the Federal Reserve has been the root cause of our biggest, most harrowing financial problems
I have not really delved in depth into the subject of the Federal Reserve for some time, but this week I decided to revisit some of my history books on the 1920s and '30s. Once again, I was struck by the length of time it took for the Fed's inappropriate policies to wreak havoc, the damage done, and, in between, how wonderful everyone thought everything was.
Of course, that creates a bit of déjà vu.
But it is instructive to consider the modest actual amount of monetary injections, as a percentage of gross domestic product, in the mid-1920s that led to the stock bubble and, ultimately, to the bust. That stimulus was small compared with the easy money of the late 1990s that culminated with the $30 billion to $50 billion the Fed injected to protect the world from "Y2K."
Yet the sums involved in previous periods of irresponsibility are mere rounding errors nowadays.
Thus, when I contemplate the damage that will be done by four years (and counting) of quantitative easing, I just shudder at how big the disaster might be -- and there is no doubt this experiment will be a disaster.
The Fed has expanded its balance sheet to $3.5 trillion, and it now owns more than 20% of outstanding U.S. debt. Either it is going to continue buying bonds forever, which is impossible, or there is going to be a massive dislocation at some moment, because someone else is going to have to buy that debt when the Fed ultimately stops, even if it doesn't choose to sell anything (and just lets the debt run off).
There will be no painless extrication from QE and, as I have said, I don't believe the Fed will be able to leave ZIRP (zero-percent interest rate policy) willingly.
My best guess is that inflation will rise high enough to matter and people will question the Fed's policies, but it will not have achieved its objectives on the employment front and will continue to try to suppress interest rates, which will result in a funding crisis.
(On the inflation front, the July 16 Consumer Price Index of 0.5% was higher than expected and annualizes to a rate that is closer to the real world than to the 1.5% or so the Fed pretends is the case. Nonetheless, it is mind-boggling to think that so many people in the financial world are actually rooting for the inflation rate to go higher.)
More money, more problems
Printing money has never worked. The only questions are how big the consequences are going to be and when they are going to hit. This is as true today as it was 80-plus years ago, when our young central bank made its first forays into monetary mismanagement.
While the current mainstream view, with Chairman Ben Bernanke its leading proponent, holds that it is the Fed's response to the Crash of 1929 that helped worsen and prolong the Great Depression, the fact is that the Fed deserves the blame much earlier. The Fed (even on the gold-bullion standard) actually had a very large role in causing the boom, which got out of control (Bernanke, please note).
In Benjamin Anderson's fabulous book "Economics and the Public Welfare" (mandatory reading for any serious student of the Depression), he states, on page 156:
"(T)he Federal Reserve System used (open market operations) deliberately for the purpose of relaxing the money market and stimulating bank expansion in 1924 and 1927. At a time when unusual circumstances called for extra caution, they abandoned old standards and became daring innovators in the effort to play God.
" . . . The process of the creation of excess reserves with the resultant great expansion of bank credit did not move slowly and gradually from early 1922 to early 1928. It was concentrated, rather, in three great moves.
" . . . Then again in the latter part of 1927 there came a third great move in the purchase of government securities, with a new great burst of expansion in bank credit.
" . . . (This) touched the match to the powder keg and set the uncontrollable forces working which blew us up late in 1929."
Anderson continues, on page 192: "With the renewal of the Federal Reserve cheap-money policy late in the summer of 1927 a sharp acceleration of the upward movement of stock prices began. "
And on page 193: "(Finally) alarmed, the Federal Reserve authorities reversed their policy in the winter of 1927-28. They sold government securities. They raised rediscount rates.
" . . . But the boom went on. There was a new factor in the situation. The public had taken the bit in its teeth. The rise in stock-market prices and the lure of stock-market profits had caught the public imagination."
In short, then-New York Fed Chairman Ben Strong decided to boost the economy in the mid-1920s, one thing led to another and, eventually, we had a mania and then a bust.
The Federal Reserve was the root cause of creating the problem. Bernanke thinks the Fed had no role to play in this phase, and that it erred by not doing enough later. But that is nonsense.
When whiskey sours
Those passages by Anderson led me to this from "Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties" by Paul Johnson, who wrote:
"Domestically and internationally they constantly pumped more credit into the system, and whenever the economy showed signs of flagging they increased the dose. The most notorious occasion was in July 1927, when Strong and (Bank of England Gov. Montagu) Norman held a secret meeting of bankers at the Long Island estates of Ogden Mills, the U.S. Treasury Under-Secretary, and Mrs. Ruth Pratt, the Standard Oil heiress. Strong kept Washington in the dark and refused to let even his most senior colleagues attend. He and Norman decided on another burst of inflation and the protests of (German banker Hjalmar) Schacht and of Charles Rist, Deputy-Governor of the Bank of France, were brushed aside."
Johnson continues: "The New York Fed reduced its rate by a further half per cent to 3-1/2; as Strong put it to Rist, 'I will give a little coup de whiskey to the stock-market' -- and as a result set in motion the last culminating wave of speculation. Adolph Miller, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, subsequently described this decision in Senate testimony as 'the greatest and boldest operation ever undertaken by the Federal Reserve System (which) resulted in one of the most costly errors committed by it or any other banking system in the last seventy-five years."
The policy appeared to be succeeding, Johnson wrote.
"In the second half of the decade, the cheap credit Strong-Normal policy pumped into the world economy perked up trade. . . . This was genuine economic management at last! Keynes described 'the successful management of the dollar by the Federal Reserve Board from 1923-8' as a 'triumph.' (British economist and Keynes ally Ralph George) Hawtrey's verdict was: 'The American experiment in stabilization from 1922 to 1928 showed that early treatment could check a tendency either to inflation or to depression. . . . The American experiment was a great advance upon the practice of the nineteenth century.'
" . . . Strong's last push, in fact, did little to help the 'real' economy. It fed speculation. Very little of the new credit went through to the mass-consumer. . . . Strong's coup de whiskey benefited almost solely the non-wage earners: the last phase of the boom was largely speculative. . . . The 1929 crash exposed in addition the naivety and ignorance of bankers, businessmen, Wall Street experts and academic economists high and low; it showed they did not understand the system they had been so confidently manipulating. They had tried to substitute their own well-meaning policies for what Adam Smith called 'the invisible hand' of the market and they had wrought disaster. Far from demonstrating, as Keynes and his school later argued -- at the time Keynes failed to predict either the crash or the extent and duration of the Depression -- the dangers of a self-regulating economy, the dégringolad indicated quite the opposite: the risks of ill-informed meddling."
The main point to understand is that the "ill-informed meddling" on the part of the Fed in the mid-1920s was infinitesimally small compared with what it has done in the past five years, and the ultimate damage will be correspondingly horrendous.
The Fed chief reinforces the notion that, in the wake of the central bank's zero-percent interest rate policy, the 'verbiage standard' is all that remains.
I'm sure that everyone reading this knows that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech July 10 moved markets. The Wall Street Journal's headline -- "Fed affirms easy-money tilt" -- says it all.
When you are on the "verbiage standard," as we now are, the noise level can be quite high.
However, I think the fact that all markets responded (and all accounts I have read regarding Bernanke's comments interpreted them as the remarks of someone very reluctant to taper) means that was the message he wanted to deliver.
From bond markets to Chinese stocks to the Fed to gold, Wall Street is dialing up the chaos in a big way.
As regular readers may know, I closed my short fund in the wake of the collapse of the housing/real estate bubble, which culminated in the financial collapse that ended in early 2009, as I was certain that central banks would print money in response to the crisis.
I never dreamed they would print anywhere near as much as they have, but I knew what was coming and that it would be difficult to make money on the short side.
I felt that the outcome we would experience in that environment would most likely be stagflation, with feeble gross domestic product growth and decent-sized inflation, or, if we were lucky, strong growth but even higher inflation. The possibility I never considered was an outcome that could be described as "Goldilocks."
Bond investors still have the power to stifle the Fed, although they may do it much more quietly than had been expected.
This week brought another installment of "As the QE-driven world turns," starring Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who held a news conference June 19 following the Federal Open Market Committee's latest policy meeting.
First of all, regarding the presser, let me be clear that there was nothing in what Bernanke said that could have led anyone to think that the Fed is inclined to take actions that could remotely be considered tightening.
Bernanke went out of his way to say that even when Fed officials got around to reducing the amount of Treasurys they were purchasing, they would, to use his metaphor, still be stepping on the accelerator, just at a reduced rate.
As Japan's problems continue, investors worldwide are still largely convinced central bankers are in control. They're not. The market is.
As I noted last week, I am focusing much more than usual on Japanese markets, since I believe there may be important information to be gleaned from the action there in stocks and, particularly, in Japanese government bonds (JGBs).
The Nikkei 225-stock index was hit hard on Monday and Wednesday, making the cumulative pullback in Japanese stocks about 20% from their recent high. Yet the bond market has rallied only about six basis points from its worst level. Obviously, the Bank of Japan has its work cut out for it as it tries to create negative interest rates and a bond market that doesn't collapse.
As my friend the Lord of the Dark Matter summed up in a recent email: "We all get that (Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko) Kuroda wants Japanese real interest rates to be negative, but achieving that without implied yen-rate volatility trending higher and Tokyo banks realizing losses on JGBs is going to be tricky."
Bond market to introduce 'start loss' orders
I would go one step further and say it's going to be impossible.
Basically, bondholders have to be willing to accept a negative real rate of return, and although that has been the case worldwide for quite a while, the bond market at some point is going to believe central bankers when they say they want more inflation, because they will get it (in fact, they have already).
Once the perception changes to inflation being the only outcome, life for central bankers is going to become incredibly complicated.
One reason markets have become so ebullient, particularly here in the United States: They have concluded that money-printing has created a Goldilocks environment instead of the stagflation or inflation I have long expected. Obviously, Goldilocks is a state of mind and can only last so long, but when you are in the money-printing "sweet spot," anything is possible.
I never would have dreamed it could last this long, nor gone to the extremes that it has, but, then again, we have never had the world's central banks printing this much money.
When you consider that the BOJ and the Fed together are printing $170 billion a month, and that only about $50 billion of liquidity provided by the Fed in the winter of 1999 blew the top off the stock market then, it is easy to see why insanity rules.
However, minds may be changing. David Rosenberg, of Gluskin Sheff, to cite one example, is now expecting stagflation. When the bond markets of the world collectively have the same opinion, the funding crisis will be upon us. (That is not yet today's problem, even though -- as I noted recently -- the very early stages may be occurring in Japan.)
Heading into negative knowledge territory
As a bit of an aside, I would like to make a point about the media and the 20% decline in the Nikkei. Most media talking heads know nothing about investing, yet love to talk about a 20% decline as the definition of a bear market, and other assorted nonsense.
The fact of the matter is that 20% doesn't mean anything. It is just a decent-size decline. It could be a correction or the early stages of a bear market (although that is quite unlikely at this early juncture for Japan). Nonetheless, a bear market is a bear market, but it doesn't become one when you cross 20%. You've quite likely been in one, and it might be over, or it might have been just a correction. In any case, thinking about things from that perspective is totally useless.
We have room only for the big picture
Speaking of wrong-headed, large numbers of investors still believe it is possible that the Federal Reserve will stop its quantitative easing efforts, let alone "taper" them. I continue to believe it is very unlikely that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will ever willingly taper.
After all, we've had five years of 0% interest rates, and the Fed can't even talk about an exit strategy that allows it to sell bonds, only buy fewer of them. The same sort of discussion has been held every year, but the masses fail to comprehend that, and get more excited with each QE-inspired rally -- with the latest goosed by the BOJ actions.
Once it is clear that tapering is not likely to occur, it will be interesting to see where the stock market is. It is quite likely to have a failing rally and, in the interim, stock market weakness might give us some insight into where the bond market might fail.
As I have noted, there are plenty of crosscurrents, and in this era, they can be incredibly violent. Unfortunately, when there is so much money printing going on around the planet, virtually all trades are macro.
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Cracks have appeared in the Japanese bond market, and potentially ours as well, as the world's finances may be reaching critical stress-points.
Buckle up because we have a lot to cover. The past 10 days have seen some very important action in several markets that is worth delving into in detail.
First, I want to talk about the crack in the Japanese bond market that occurred on May 23. I believe that was a very important moment in recent and longer-term financial history. In the near-term, I believe it marked the end of the "sweet spot," a term I have used to describe the environment we've been in where people believe that central banks could create an easy-money nirvana at the push of a button.
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In a recent column, I mused about which bond market -- Japan's, Britain's or ours – would crack first. Now we know: Japan's. The reason I say the sweet spot has ended is because on May 23, the very early stages of a funding crisis hit Japan.
This is demonstrated by the fact that Japanese government bonds traded through 1.00%, which is two-and-a-half times their rate when the Bank of Japan's huge quantitative easing efforts began. One can imagine the carnage that would occur here if our 10-year rates leaped higher in a similar fashion.
It was also a mini-demonstration of a point I made last week: Once you have entered ZIRP (a zero-interest-rate policy) you can never leave, unless you have a funding crisis and the market drives rates higher, despite central bank commands/demands.
In terms of a timeline, I believe the action in Japan is analogous to first-payment defaults during the mortgage meltdown, which began in early 2007 and were a sign that the subprime market had cracked. However, it wasn't declared "contained" until six to nine months later. During that period, fallout from the bursting of the housing bubble was not only not contained, it was spreading.
The storm after the calm
The Federal Reserve is trapped and -- as May 23 demonstrated -- so is Japan. The choice central bankers are facing is the same one that has confronted them since the money printing inspired by former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan began. Once trouble starts, they have to decide if they are going to allow their economies to fall into a depression or go down a path that seems painless but leads to inflation.
My belief has been that central bankers -- as they have already demonstrated -- will always choose the path that leads to inflation because they think they can easily stop it. And for a long time (most especially recently), people have believed that the money-printing path was essentially painless. I believe that view peaked on May 23 (even though no real inflection point can ever pinned down to one day, or even one week).
In other words, the macroeconomic and financial environment cannot get any better than people already thought it was. It was not as good as people thought, but "the best has been seen/imagined." From here, warts will begin to appear, and we will start to go from all news being good to all news being bad. But that is a continuum and will take some time.
Yield signs
Turning to this week, worldwide volatility continued, this time centered -- for once -- in the U.S. bond market. That may or may not be meaningful, but in this case, and in light of Japan's bond market, I think it is.
The $64 trillion question, however, is: "Why are bond markets sinking?" Is it (1) just noise; (2) too much liquidity; (3) not enough liquidity; (4) too much leverage/too many people short volatility; or, most importantly, (5) the beginning of a funding crisis?
The recent declines in U.S. and Japanese bonds (I will restrict my comments to those two, since what happens elsewhere will be an extension of what happened with those) are most likely due to a combination of factors, primarily some noise, but also too much leverage/too many who are short volatility.
When rates are held artificially low, with the promise that they will be kept there for an even longer period of time, it is easy for careless, greedy and/or naïve investors to get in over their heads trying to turn what is available from the bond market -- i.e., nothing -- into something that might actually be called "yield." As the saying goes, more money has been lost reaching for yield than at the point of a gun.
As for the underlying root cause, is there insufficient money printing (which could easily be solved by central banks), or is there too much (which would be the early days of a funding crisis)? I believe that for Japan the answer is a combination of points 1, 2 and 4 above, which lead to point No. 5.
Though it isn't articulated as such, the combination of leverage and monetization promises have precipitated a selloff and a gigantic increase in volatility, which will be very hard to get under control. Even if this is ultimately going to create a funding crisis (which is quite likely), nobody would be able to articulate exactly how and why right now. Just as it would have been almost impossible in late 2006 to extrapolate the final collapse of the economy, stock market and financial system at the end of 2008 from the initial first-payment defaults, even though they were all part of the same process.
Such is the case today in Japan, though I believe there are going to be many vicious crosscurrents along the way.
As for the U.S. bond market, which was really roughed up on May 28, the blame has been laid at the feet of Fed chief Ben Bernanke (i.e., point 3 above) and the other Fed heads trying to talk out of both sides of their mouths. It is understandable that Bernanke & Co. would want to prepare the markets for the eventual end to quantitative easing. They have never understood that they are the problem, and they continually think that money printing will solve everything, so every now and then, when the stock market gets frisky and the economic data get better, they contemplate that they will be able to stop someday. I don't believe that, as when the end comes for QE, it will be because the bond market has forced it to stop.
It can happen here
But whereas Ben's threat to someday print less money has been blamed for the backup in U.S. yields (and I'm sure that had some role in it), part of what is at work, in my opinion, is the same process that is occurring in Japan. And since the fact that the Fed may someday buy fewer bonds doesn't impact Japan, it is clear its problem is a case of "too much." (That said, teasing out the precise reasons for why markets move on any given day is usually close to impossible, and when you are trying figure out what might be causing a massive inflection point, it can be even more difficult.)
The bottom line, I believe, is that Japanese authorities have "lost the bond market" (i.e., rates are much higher than authorities want, despite their best efforts) and the Fed has as well, but, perversely, Japan may be further along in the process, even though its powers that be started much later to really get serious about QE-powered monetary debasement.
As far as markets go, the crosscurrents emanating from the macro consequences of money printing (and associated socialistic government policies) are going to be treacherous, and that is unavoidable. One needs to understand that essentially the macroeconomic environment has been all that has mattered for the last decade.
Money printing precipitated the stock bubble, which led to a bust, and nothing mattered but the macro, in both directions. Ditto during the housing bubble: Nothing mattered on the upside or downside except money printing or its consequences. (Reckless policies caused the bubble, but as it unwound, nothing mattered until enough money was printed to turn it around again.)
One-lane road ahead
In the last four years, nothing has mattered except how much money was printed. When the consequences of that are felt, that is all that will matter. That doesn't mean individual security research is meaningless, because you have to know what you are involved with, but if I were to pick one motto, it would be: "All macro, all the time; it's all one trade."
As for our stock market, folks are still concluding that Goldilocks was not a fairy tale and is, in fact, exactly what the Fed has engineered -- i.e., economic activity that is not too hot, nor too cold, with interest rates rising ever so gently. The same delusions that allow one to think that also indicate that rising interest rates are actually bullish because they theoretically mean the economy is getting better. Historically, pre-Greenspan, that was the case most of the time. But now, since we live in a world with make-believe interest rates picked by the Fed, assets are much more likely to be mispriced -- something stock bulls fail to comprehend.
Thus, our stock market feels bulletproof, as we are the leaders in the Goldilocks propaganda. The recent carnage in fixed incomes in Japan, the violent equity selloff there and the bond market decline here have done almost nothing to dent the enthusiasm of that camp in America.
Save the last dance for QE
However, following the crack in Japanese bonds, my friend the Lord of the Dark Matter said, "I would expect in the coming days (and given the violence of this selloff, it is days, not weeks) that central bankers will reaffirm their commitment to liquidity and that they are 'all in.' They will make their intentions both clear and unambiguous. If the markets don't stabilize after that, then it is '1987 time' for equities."
I totally agree. Eventually, even the really slow learners should be able to understand that the central banks are trapped and that their only choice is between depression and easy money.
When it comes to monetary policy, our Federal Reserve is hoping words speak just as loud as actions.
It's time once again to check in on our fearless leaders at the Federal Reserve, as Wednesday was the scene of Chairman Ben Bernanke's most recent congressional testimony (as well as the release of the latest FOMC minutes).
Spoiler alert
But we already knew -- regardless of what Bernanke or the minutes said -- what the Fed is going to do, namely what it has always done since former Chairman Alan Greenspan manned the helm. This is not debatable: The central bank is going to print money -- too much money, it as it will turn out, and the central bankers won't understand that -- leading to a collapse in the economy and financial markets, and so the Fed will come back and do the same thing on an even bigger scale.
For five years now, there has been steady talk of exit strategies, yet none has occurred. Nor is exiting described as a binary on-off switch any longer, but rather as a dial whereby the flow of money can be scaled up or down, depending on the data.
Thus, the very concept of an exit strategy, where the Fed might suddenly stop buying or actually sell bonds and reduce its balance sheet, has been abandoned and is never going to happen.
This makes it rather annoying and maddening to deal with financial markets that move on every speech given by every Fed head as they work their jawbone standard. But that is where we are.
Fed won't hit the brakes until it's sure we've hit something
No one should be shocked to learn that Bernanke opened Wednesday's testimony by saying that a premature tightening risks slowing or ending the recovery.
That is all you need to know: There will be no premature tightening. Bernanke is not going to pre-empt anything, certainly not inflation.
In fact, he said, ". . . inflation, if anything, is a little too low."
All of the tough talk, I believe, is because the powers that be at the Fed have some inkling somewhere in the back of their minds that maybe if they "overdo it," financial markets might get a little (in Fed terminology) overheated.
Other than that, they have no interest in ending their massively stimulative policies in any time frame that could remotely be called early.
In any case, when the Bernanke headline hit the tape, everything vaulted to the upside. Then, during the question-and-answer period with lawmakers, Bernanke said he could raise or lower the purchase pace of Fed bond buying (gee, what a shock), depending on the data (ditto).
But then he dropped a supposed bombshell, noting that the Fed could cut the pace of bond purchases at one of its next few meetings (yes, slowly, or maybe not at all). That comment caused a great deal of selling in the bond, currency and metals markets, but it initially had only a modest impact on the stock market, which eventually sank with everything else.
Hanging ourselves on every word
The bottom line is that this is a whole lot of hot air, but we are forced to deal with it on a daily basis because we live in a world where central bankers think they know the future and the only standard that exists anymore is the jawbone standard.
(And, most importantly, the damage from money printing has already been done, the consequences just haven't yet fully manifested themselves.)
Are bonds u-ZIRP-ing control?
Bonds were deservedly smoked on Wednesday, and yields are approaching their highs of the year. If they keep sliding, stocks will get hit (though they could tank for any reason now, given how frothy the market is) and then the economic data will be seen for what it is: weak.
Of course, "taper talk" would then cease and folks would realize that the Fed is (and has been) trapped. You can't abandon zero-interest-rate-policy (aka ZIRP) until the market forces you to via a funding crisis. Period!
At the time of publication, Bill Fleckenstein owned gold.
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Jun 09
Posts: 5
leth says:
With no option of intermediates, slick tyres were the only real choice for the conditions as they were quicker than the wets up until about lap 22. The gamble may have payed off but in Stoners case it would have made more sense to run what the likes of Rossi, Lorenzo ETC were on.
The riders were told by Ducatis managment that slick were the prefered option but it seems the riders after doing two grid formation laps were not confident enough in the bike to run on slicks in thouse conditions.
The one thing that has become apparent is the need for an intermediate tyre and the teams should demand Dorna do something about it
Dec 08
Posts: 1291
boybilly1967 says:
Just comes down to poor judgement from Hayden & Stoner and Ducati's inability to get them both to see sense.
Posts: 22
46vale46 says:
A brave choice, a stupid mistake?? Is it the riders final decision?? Who knows, its obvious now it was the wrong choice! That's racing i suppose, but red faces all round for ducati must be a bitter pill. The whole pit lane must have been smerking for ages.
I would have prefered they run slicks and had a battle with the others, Casey could do without any more bad luck if he is to challenge for the championship.
I want Rossi to win of course, but I love the racing to, and you can't race by yourself. So come on boys sort it out and let battle commence!
Jul 08
Posts: 413
stoner27 says:
id say stoner went for the gamble because he wouldnt have finished the race on slicks he looked sick after qualifying .if they carnt get this bug problem sorted in the next 4 weeks then he,s def out of the championship.theres no choice but to be 100% fit to challenge rossi in next part of the season and with a points lead that rossi has got its basically having to try and win every race.but why not bring back inters for safety reasons if nothing else.
Aug 08
Posts: 14
AdestheMex says:
What sad little boys some of you are. Where above is Stoner, or Hayden for that matter, complaining? It is clearly Ducati stating what they did and what the result was. How pathetic it is that some of you feel the need to whinge (or moan whichever fits best) about everything Casey Stoner is quoted as saying.
On every other website that this story is posted on (the source being motogp.com and a ducati press release) the story is headlined with "Ducati explian tyre choice" or "Ducati defend tyre choice". And yet MCN reporters feel the need to sensationalise a simple press release by adding inflamatory language to feed the mindless bottom feeding scum that some of you are.
I'm sure if Rossi made the same choice and got it wrong the comments, and headline for that matter, would be different.
At least Casey Stoner has the balls to take a risk that could potentially end his championship hopes, whether it paid off or not.
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Bob Buttamasangy says:
If George loses the championship by 1 or 2 points, I wonder if you asked him about Caseys tyre choice, what he'd say?
Stoner's obviously not confident with his endurance at the moment and explained the choice, Hayden supported the decision saying HE wasn't happy with the bike in the conditions and it's a cheap throw away to slag them off without considering the explanation. They put their hand up for the heat and were pretty close to pulling a major coup. I think it was a desperate decision, but the riders and the bikes are far from sorted at the mo and are the only ones who know the issues with the Duc.
Not only do we put up with the hatred from the english posters on this site, but now the pommy journos are in on the act too! I have no doubt he'll be back winning races, but I doubt he'll ever get the credit from either. That's fine but I'm happy just to know that they may NEVER get to see a british champion in their lifetime. It's a magnificent feeling to have seen 3 Australian champions winning races (and championships) in the flesh and I'm not bagging JT in any way. Rossi's self importance is about to bite him in the ar5e as well, so keep lapping it up while it lasts but don't wonder why it is that you don't get the chance to feel some real homegrown pride every now and then.
Go the Aussies!
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Maximise your savings: Look at all the perks
Posted: September 14, 2012|
Halifax is poised to hand out prizes totalling £1million to some lucky savers as the first anniversary of its Savers Prize Draw approaches.
For those who have at least £5,000 in savings with the bank, this means there is now the chance of winning one of three prizes of £250,000 in its December draw as part of a total prize pot of £1million.
Since December 2011, Halifax Savers Prize Draw has allocated more than 11,000 prizes to savers totalling over £6million – but it's not the only saving sweetener available on the market.
Santander recently paid more than 600,000 savers an extra 0.1% on their cash as it promised it would in the event that Rory McIlroy won a golfing major. Holders of the bank's Major ISA, which paid 4%, benefited following McIlroy's PGA triumph.
But aside from these, there are plenty of other incentives on offer to savers which are more straightforward, such as bonuses, which boost the rate on your savings account for an introductory period.
That said, if you take advantage of a bonus on your savings account, you will need to keep your wits about you as they only tend to last for 12 months, sending your rate plummeting after that time.
Here we look at how to navigate perks and bonuses in order to wring the most out of your savings.
Easy access accounts with a bonus
Bonuses will vary in size and length, and can make good financial sense, as the rate you are getting on your hard-earned cash can be significantly boosted for an initial period of time.
However, the key is to be savvy and note down when the bonus ends so you remember to move your money in time.
If you don't do this, you could find you are earning a pretty paltry rate on your savings when that bonus drops away.
West Brom building society is paying a market leading 3.06% on its Direct Bonus Account – but you'll need to invest a minimum of £10,000 and the rate you see includes a 1.54% bonus until September 30, 2013.
If you don't have £10,000 to invest, The Post Office is paying 2.95% for a minimum investment of just £1, which includes a 1.30% bonus for 12 months. ING Direct is paying slightly lower rate of 2.90% also for £1, but this includes a sizeable bonus of 2.36% for the first 12 months.
As these rates easily beat those paid on accounts without a bonus, if you are savvy, it is worth taking advantage. However, you must make a diary note to review your account before the bonus period expires as returns will plummet.
Easy access accounts without a bonus
If you don't want the hassle of having to remember to move the money you've got squirrelled away in an easy access account every time a bonus period ends, the alternative is a 'clean rate' account.
These accounts do not include a bonus – so, while they are variable – what you see is what you get.
At present, Saffron building society is paying 2.76% on its e-saver Issue 5 on a minimum investment of £10.
Aldermore is paying 2.75% on its Easy Access Issue 2, but on a higher minimum of £1,000, and Leeds building society is paying the same rate, also on a minimum of £1,000, on its Unlimited Postal Account Issue 2; although this can only be operated by post.
Nottingham building society is paying 2.62% on its eSaver Instant Issue 1; this is a MoneySupermarket exclusive and the rate is paid on a minimum of £500.
Virgin Money pays a very slightly lower rate of 2.60% on its E-Saver Issue 2 provided by Northern Rock on a minimum of £1.
Fixed rate savings accounts
One of the best ways to get the most out of your savings in today's low interest environment is to lock your money away in a fixed rate bond, as these accounts provide some of the best returns available.
But crucially, if you opt for a fixed rate account, you have to be sure you won't need access to your money for the length of the term, as you will be penalised heavily if you need to make withdrawals – and in some cases, won't be permitted at all.
The very highest rates are paid on the accounts which require you to tie your money up for the longest period – say of four or five years. The State Bank of India is currently paying 4.50% on its five-year bond and 4.20% on its four-year bond; both have a minimum investment of £1,000.
Julian Hodge Bank is also paying a competitive 4.00% on its Capital Millennium Bond which is fixed for five years; also on a minimum of £1,000.
The State Bank of India is currently also the "best buy" for three-year fixed rate bonds, paying 3.85% on a minimum of £1,000, while Kent Reliance is paying a competitive 3.75% on its three-year fix on a minimum of £1,000.
If you're only looking to fix for the short term, the Post Office is offering a rate of 3.51% on its Growth Bond Issue 18 fixed for two years on a minimum of £500, while Kent Reliance is paying 3.50% on its two-year fixed rate bond on a minimum of £1,000.
Notice accounts
A further option for savers looking to get a better return on their money is a notice account.
These accounts require you to give notice of your wish to make a withdrawal – often along with details of the amount you want to withdraw.
As with fixed rate bonds, the notice period will vary, typically starting from around 30 days, but rising as high as 120 days, so if you think you might need access to your cash in a hurry, this type of account is not for you. Further, some notice accounts may also come with restrictions on the number of withdrawals you can make in one year, so make sure you scour the small print.
If you can abide by the terms and conditions, you will usually find the rates beat those on easy access accounts, with the best rates offered on those accounts with the longest notice periods.
Kent Reliance is currently paying 3.30% on its Internet 60-Day Notice Issue 2 account on a minimum of £1,000.
Shawbrook is paying 3.30% on its notice account and Aldermore is paying 3.20% on its notice account. Both rates are paid on a minimum of £1,000, but both have a longer notice period of 120 days.
If you want to make a lower minimum investment, the Post Office is paying 3.00% on its Reward Saver on a minimum of £500. The notice on this account is just 30 days, but as the rate includes a bonus of 1.25% for 12 months, again, you need to note down when this ends so you remember to review the account again at that time.


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A Lake Station man facing murder and attempted murder charges who was released from the Illinois hospital where he was being treated for gunshot wounds surrendered Monday with his attorney, the Post-Tribune is reporting.
Defense attorney Matthew Fech said Mark Cherry surrendered at the Lake County Jail at about 10:30 a.m.
Cherry, 21, was charged Dec. 20 with murder in the shooting death of Rolando Correa, 22, and the wounding of brothers Elias Martinez, 24, and Anthony Martinez, 23. Court records indicate Cherry and two other men went to a home on Dec. 1 in the 6200 block of West 29th Avenue in the Black Oak section of Gary looking for marijuana. They forced their way inside, and Cherry was shot multiple times during a struggle with the Martinez brothers. The other two suspects have not been charged.
Cherry was treated at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill. He was not held under police guard. Gary officers don't typically guard prisoners outside Indiana where they have no jurisdiction, Gary police spokeswoman Cpl. Gabrielle King said earlier.
Michael Kaufmann, Oak Lawn police division chief, said previously that Gary police did not inform his department about Cherry's status as a criminal defendant in a murder case. Kaufmann said then that it's the responsibility of the law enforcement agency in charge of a case to keep track of a suspect or to alert local police and seek assistance. Gary police also could have contacted Cook County sheriff's police to alert them of Cherry's status at the hospital, Kaufmann said.
Christ spokesman Mike Maggio said in a previous statement that the medical center "cannot legally detain a patient against his or her will. Without prior written consent from a patient, the hospital cannot alert another person or agency about a patient's pending discharge." He said a suspect or defendant in a serious crime is typically guarded by police officer while in the hospital, so "at the time of discharge, the patient can be taken immediately into custody by police."
Gary Police Chief Wade Ingram will work closely with Cook County sheriff's police, Oak Lawn police and other agencies to try to prevent situations like the one with Cherry from happening again, King said.
On Friday, prosecutors filed an amended information adding murder in perpetration of a robbery and attempted robbery counts. Cherry, who was convicted of robbery in March 2012, faces a petition to revoke his probation in that case.
"I would like to remind everyone that my client is presumed to be innocent of these charges and we plan on defending this matter fully," Fech said.
Several agencies had been looking for Cherry, including the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, the Region Stop Team and local police departments.
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Thursday roundup: PBS promotes execs; Code Switch crowdsources poetry
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