Interesting But Hard To Read
Got bounced this inflation adjusted chart produced by Deutsche Bank – its interesting but the information management in the graph is crap.
I’m Not Certain This Is Productive
Bloomberg – “We have a new credo: carpe noctem — seize the night,” said Douglas A. Kass, a hedge fund manager who routinely sets his alarm for precisely that time to scan the headlines coming out of Europe. All last week, the musings of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and other European leaders put the…
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Neat little article from Bloomberg that shows that there is nothing new under the sun.
Penn Jillette @ Google
You would now by now that I am a fan of rational thinking and I hate bullshit – thats why I am a fan of Penn and Teller and their Bullshit series. This is an hour or so of a Q&A with Penn Jillette at Google
DetailsDo You Know Where You Live?
If you answered No to this question then join the dozen or so other f#$knuts who have recently interacted with our business who also do not seem to to know where they live. As a consequence of this we get a deluge of emails along the lines of ……. Your website has made a mistake…
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Simplistic but it passes the time whilst having toast and vegemite.
Superstition
Following on from my earlier posting regarding economics not being a science and being more akin to superstition I thought I would have a little look at the nature of superstition and I came across the following by Betrand Russell. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful but must be endured…
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I have been a Rolling Stone reader for decades – what originally started as a somewhat shambolic counter culture music mag has morphed into probably one of the most effective financial journals around. Witness this skewering of Hank Paulson
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