Nothing New In Hating Your Bank
A little piece that looks at the history of hating banks – who would have thunk that hating people who skew rules to suit themselves was a long held tradition.
DetailsThe World At 7 Billion
This is a neat little graphic from the BBC that shows your place among the other 7 billion on our rock. Click the graphic to be taken to the interactive page.
DetailsChrist…………She Is Terrifying………
My recollection is that software demo’s are supposed to be a little bit over hyped but this women seems like she has hooked her undies up to mains and then leapt on stage.
Hugh Hendry
The always entertaining hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry. Much is written about hedge funds and the types that run them – this is a nice personal look at how they think. Hendry gets points for his openness and admissions of his own fallibility. Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five You might…
DetailsWhy Economic Models Are Always Wrong
I saw the above title and thought WTF would anyone be surprised at this. More here – Scientific American PS : Welcome to the land of the bleeding obvious……..
DetailsWhat A Dick
I am not a fan of American politics or any sort of politics for that matter. However, I am a fan of Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone. This is a fascinating piece on how truly screwed US politics is and how it is populated by absolute friggen lunatics. My favourite quotes from the piece –…
DetailsMore Than 80 Percent of Hedge Funds Underwater
I find this somewhat fascinating since the popular image if hedge funds is one of remorseless money making machines when in fact most are run by complete dickheads with very little ability. The selloff in most of the global markets in the third quarter heavily impacted a large number of hedge funds. In fact, not…
DetailsQuote Of The Day
“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on…
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