I Shouldn’t Laugh
Embarrassment is directly proportional to the value of your car and the perception of being a wanker.
As I Have Said Before….
………when referring to the funds management industry and its enormous fee collection for little return, I could be twice as incompetent for half the price.
Petrol
I had long been curious as to where Australia sat in terms of its pricing of petrol but was too lazy to put together a list. Fortunately Bloomberg has saved me the trouble. Most expensive gas ranking: Price per gallon of premium gasoline: Norway $9.69 Denmark $9.37 Italy $9.35 Netherland $9.35 Greece $9.23 Sweden $8.97…
DetailsAlec Baldwin Talks To Joseph Stiglitz
Also worth a listen… This week on Here’s the Thing, Alec talks about the financial crisis with Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist. Stiglitz shows no restraint when unleashing criticism of presidential policies — on both sides. Of President Barack Obama’s financial-industry rescue plan, Stiglitz said that whomever designed it was “either in the pocket of…
DetailsMarx At 193
Well worth a listen to – Consider these passages from The Communist Manifesto, which Marx wrote with Engels in 1848, after being kicked out of both France and Germany for his political writings: Capitalism has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities. Capitalism has agglomerated population, centralised means of…
DetailsIt Pays To Be A Clever Clogs
Apparently, this paper was written by a physicist in response to him receiving a traffic fine. It is said that he was both successful in his defence and received a $400 special prize for the paper
Apparently….
…this is how JP Morgan shot itself in the arse
If Only…
……you could get away with doing this to the dicks who knock on my door at dinner times and the great unwashed who accost me in the street….
