1. Hundreds of air passengers faced further misery yesterday as the fall-out from the bad weather continued.
Seven flights into Liverpool were diverted to other airports and 10 were cancelled on Monday, leaving travellers stranded as they tried to make the bank holiday journey home after the Christmas break.
They were finally flown home yesterday.
But the disruption continued for easyJet passengers flying between Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport and Belfast when their flight was cancelled.
The knock-on effect of Monday’s problems was blamed.
- Travellers at Liverpool’s John Lennon airport hit by knock-on effect of heavy fog, LiverpoolEcho.co.uk, December 30, 2009.
2. Silver pieces of eight were another passport to trade, and, as the first object of a global economy, a key step in the history of money. Minted in South America from the end of the 15th century, they crossed both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. So widely were these silver coins used that interruptions in the production of silver in Mexico and Peru had a severe knock-on effect. In Europe silver shortages led to a sudden massive expansion of the money supply and the hyperinflation of the mid-17th century. In China they helped cause the collapse of the Ming dynasty.
- A history of the world in 100 objects: Creative impulses, Economist.com, December 30, 2009.
3. Greece is set to unveil plans to control its public finances and struggling economy in 2010.
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