credit problems, work problems, risks and returns, housing, business - basic ideas... here's notes to learn more about global business or ponder about: ***The euro continued on an accelerated downward slide, dropping more than 1% to below $1.24. Gold dropped close to $413 per ounce, while oil barely blipped, still uncomfortably close to the $50 mark. Details follow? ***The French ?no? vote on the European constitution was, in a sense, a vote against Capitalism? reviled and discredited among Europeans as ?liberalism.? P.S. Warning to All American Homeowners: July 22, 2005... the day that will financially paralyze 72 million American homeowners (and that could make you an astounding $212,500 in 8 months). and now for the thought of the day: ?Whatever their motives, this was a vote to keep tight hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse. It was the politics of Peter Pan, of not wanting to grow up.? Martin Kettle, May 31, 2005 p.s. reading with ya'll my daily dispatch does anything ring a bell??