Sex, Insider Trading and the First U.S. Financial Panic: Echoes
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…
DetailsWall Street On Trial
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…
DetailsRolling Stone
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
DetailsHFT Review
I have to admit I am not certain where I sit on the notion of algorithmic trading or HFT. It is often portrayed as a form of electronic front running – merely a high tech way for broking firms to steal from clients. I have to admit I have some sympathy with this view. However,…
DetailsEconomics…A Science? Surely Not
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. Harry S Truman I have long thought that if they give out Nobel Prizes for economics they should probably start to look at handing them out for homeopathy as well. The issue I have with economics/economists is the lack…
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