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The holiday spirit may be upon us right now, but just around the corner, trouble is a-brewing. Let Forex Gump fill you in on the employment and inflation problems that await the U.K. in 2011!

If you are sitting on euro debt issued by a periphery country, and said periphery country decides to pull the plug on its club membership in the single currency, it won’t be fair when the value of your debt denominated in euros, of course effectively guaranteed by the venerable European Union, plunges in value.

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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or what we’d like to call “The Black Crack Mafia,” had a mob meeting last week to discuss the fate of the energy markets.

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Boy, oh, boy! It looks like our buddies over at the European Union are getting more serious about establishing a permanent bailout fund. Here’s Forex Gump to give y’all the 411 on what happened in the EU summit last weekend!

Are y’all ready to grab some pips before the Christmas holiday? Make sure you start the week off right by reading my daily roundup!

Are you missing out on those strong price moves lately? Don’t fret! There are still a bunch of catalysts on the economic schedule for this week so let’s take a look at which reports could rock the markets in the next few days.

A couple of familiar retail Forex brokers have recently stepped into the spotlight by going public–will this be good for the industry and for you?

This past week, Japanese head honcho Naoto Kan and his samurai soldiers proposed a tax package that would slice and dice the corporate tax rate, in hopes of spicing up the Japanese economy. What could this mean for the Japanese economy?

First it was Greece, and then it was Ireland. Will Spain be the third of the PIIGS nations to ask for a bailout? Or will it say “Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!”?

Want some pips in your Christmas stockings this week? Make sure you drop by my daily economic roundup!

Jeremy Siegel had an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal this week. And he also did an interview with Reuters. If you don’t know of Mr. Siegel, just know that he is a big-time equities guy.

Dollar domination! Judging from yesterday’s price action, it looks like risk aversion’s back with a vengeance. Will the higher-yielding currencies have a chance to win back their losses today? Or will the safe-havens continue to dominate?

Hodgepodge today … Dollar mostly higher today. Pound taking a pounding on jobs. Seems to be a bit of conversion flow to the idea US growth may be improving and inflation may be a problem for China.

Unlike those in the past, this week’s FOMC statement lacked the flair and drama to light up Broadway. But that doesn’t mean you should just ignore it! Here’s Forex Gump to give you the heads up of what was said yesterday!

Risk on, risk off… Which will it be today? Currency pairs have been acting wildly lately, possibly because of the lack of liquidity in the markets. Check out what we have in store for today!

Hopefully you know by now. In fact, it would have been nice to know a month ago … or better yet six months ago (or even better yet two years ago!) …

Every story has to come to an end. For euro zone’s sovereign crisis, what will it be? Good, bad, or just plain ugly?

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