Author Archives: Chris Tate

Is It Time To Invest In Europe?

I have no friggen idea and really don’t give a stuff but this little chat is interesting if only to see the ever entertaining Hugh Hendry in action (scroll through to his bits). I always get the impression that Hendry doesn’t take himself or anyone else that seriously. Interestingly, this gabfest was hosted by the…

This Is Interesting.

Stateless and Super-Rich

Interesting if only from the perspective of the voyeur.

Analysts Are Such Dicks

A tremendous collection of documents relating to the failed Lehman Brothers has been placed on line by the NY Fed. I am not entirely certain why they are online. The consensus seems to be that the winner of the day is a piece titled Bruised, Not Broken, Poised For Profitability which is a piece by…

Interesting Things From The Weekend

How Physics and Neuroscience Dictate Your “Free” Will Twenty Citizens’ Worth Of Blood Flowed Through Him: A Medic Confronts The Open Wounds Of Afghanistan Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives    

Spotted This Headline

Nasdaq-100 Has Biggest Advance in 2012 as Apple Jumps The Nasdaq-100 Index jumped 2.7 percent to 2,709.62 at 4 p.m. New York time. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index added 1.4 percent to 1,390.69. The Dow Jones Industrial Averagerose 89.16 points, or 0.7 percent, to 13,090.72. Apple (AAPL) is not a member of the 30-stock gauge. About 6.8…

Its Friday

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Money Power And Wall Street

The Yanks do some things well – this sort of PBS doco is one of them PS My first attempt to load it in Chrome didn’t go so well – I had better luck with Firefox.

That Equation Made Me Do It

I have written before about how those with the moral of a pox ridden alley cat had tried to blame the Black and Scholes equation for the GFC This very clever little graphic puts that notion to bed. Source – Quant