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i m here to introduce sarah kay bierle. all of us here at emerging civil war , we wear many hats. and we wanted to do a series on the blog, to introduce you to some of the faces around. that way, when you come to a symposium and you want to ring our neck or something or tell us what you didn t like on the blog, you know who you are talking to. you know the background. sara does so much with emerging civil war, her fingers are in every aspect of it. but i didn t even realize how much she does until i read her contributions, my ecw story. but if you look up my ecw story, you will find it. but she has a daily schedule, every day of the week. where she is working on some aspect of the civil war. it s just incredible. so if you like what we are doing, if you like this, make sure you give sarah kay bierle a pat on the back, if you have any complaints, make sure you take them to dr. , it s probably his fault anyway. sarah kay bierle is managing editor of emerging civil war and
know, he s weighed in on anything that finally we re going to get some clarification. the big mover today is delivering alpha. it is. it is. a lot of people promise to seek alpha. very few deliver. this is the humphrey hawkins, maybe his last one, among the house financial services committee on monetary policy begins at 10:00 eastern. but his prepared remarks will be made in time for us to look at them at 8:30 eastern and investors obviously are going to be hanging on every word, if he adds and if, if he takes out an adjective, you never know about the future of the fed s bond buying program, which we tried to say that we were going to good news as good news and i m not convinced we re there yet. every time you think something i m not there yet either. it is still the addicts are still it is the accommodative punch bowl that i do think the biggest shock may be out of the system. can t confuse people again that fed tapering may be coming. may be the biggest s
Chupi Sweetman’s husband Brian Durney knew almost immediately after they first met that this was the woman he would marry. He waited two weeks to tell her this, three to say “I love you”, she laughs now, explaining that he didn’t want to scare her. They were 16, “babies”, and had met at a confirmation ceremony where they were set up by his cousin. This week, Sweetman turns 40, appropriately for one whose eponymous jewellery business revolves around love on Valentine’s Day.