Billionaires In The World
Dont ask me why I looked this up – I was bored.
Academia Is Late To The Party Again….
This article popped into my inbox this morning – Where the Black Swans Hide & the 10 Best Days Myth Here is the abstract – Below we examine market outliers in financial markets. How much effect do these outliers have on long term performance? Can the investor prepare for these anomalies, or are they truly…
DetailsIndex Comparison
We are all looking a bit ordinary compared to the Nikkei
Gangster Bankers
People may have outrage fatigue about Wall Street, and more stories about billionaire greedheads getting away with more stealing often cease to amaze. But the HSBC case went miles beyond the usual paper-pushing, keypad-punching sort-of crime, committed by geeks in ties, normally associated with Wall Street. In this case, the bank literally got away with…
DetailsThe Way They Live Now
I was reading this article by Michael Lewis when I came across this quote talking about Britain in the early 1980’s – Nothing functioned properly; everything that wasn’t broken was about to fall apart. The food was almost deliberately inedible, an inside joke cooked up by the locals to see what human beings would willingly…
DetailsIts Friday
Notice how they are all blokes, where would the internet be without the XY chromosome. Probably full of friggen cat videos.
