These prices have prompted many people in the industry feats of rhetorical self - flagellation.
I mention these mistakes not so much to beat up on myself — I haven't found self-flagellation a useful investment technique — as to illustrate an important investment lesson.
They are not about to engage in mutual flagellation. The new rules will not be retrospective, and many sanctions will not bite until 2013.
As the special report in thisissue describes, plans for the end of the fossil-fuel economy are now beinglaid and they do not involve much self-flagellation.
Doing a paddys axe routine to it just proves it. You would have to be into a severe form of mental masturbation or extreme self flagellation to think otherwise!
All 16 members of the euro zone now breach the 3% deficit threshold, and 12 also violate the 60% debt limit. They are not about to engage in mutual flagellation.
