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Potholes, tax and bicycles.

November 11th, 2008

Here in Malta we’ve just had the budget. There is now an income tax exemption for working mothers for one year which is granted to women returning to work after having a baby. This income tax exemption applies for every working mother in respect of children born during 2007 and subsequent years. Well, there is a baby MOM here at MOM Towers born August 7th 2007.

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You want to play? Play by the rules.

November 7th, 2008

Many of you will know that my main income comes from forex so I thought this morning I’d just share an event that was, at the time, pretty scary. The Nikkei had been plummeting two weeks ago on a bad Sony warning, then it collapsed completely dropping well below the 8000 level and ending the session -10%.

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The wonders of Malta

October 20th, 2008

I like living in Malta and that’s why I’m here right now. But it does get frustrating sometimes. Power cuts occurred last Friday and Saturday. Friday was okay because it was only for an hour and BetbotPRO picked up again when the power returned. But on Saturday it caused a premature ending to BetbotPRO’s business [...]

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Betfair Premium Charge

October 16th, 2008

The Betfair Premium Charge PC has caused a lot of hysterical comment in the Betfair forum but I published a copy of a defence here from a Betfair employee two weeks ago and I’m philosophical about it. If what Betfair says is true – it needs to do it to keep attracting the losers some [...]

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Betfair Bans Johnny!

October 15th, 2008

No, not me! John who started betting with Betfair in 2001 and was the first guest on WUBT Betting Exchange Radio a year ago this week. He has a Betfair turnover of £28,367,733 and a net profit of £78,862. You can hear me chatting to him in the player at the top of this blog. [...]

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Fellow bloggers – in the EU? You need to know this.

October 12th, 2008

Back in June MEPs began to complain that unlicensed blogs were “polluting” cyberspace with “misinformation and malicious intent”. They wanted “a quality mark, a disclosure of who is writing and why”.
Not even the European Parliament, I thought, would actually try to censor the internet. I was wrong. We now have the full report and, sure [...]