Author Archives: Chris Tate

What would Feynman do?

Richard Feynman has long been one of my intellectual hero’s, a man of searing intelligence who taught himself how to play bongo’s crack safes and pick up women. Not at all the pastimes one expects of a Nobel Prize winning physicist. This link is a geeky look at a hypothetical Feynman job interview. If the…

My conclusion

Whilst clearing my inbox just now I came across a market recap/forecast that included the following  headings- Actually the bit about being mental I added as it seemed appropriate for anyone silly enough to bang on about Gann and astrology. Once again someone proves my point that human irrationality is boundless.

Do I fricken care..

…if the Dow is measured in gold. I find this style of charts profoundly inane. You don’t measure the amount of paint you might need to paint a room in the number of babies foreskins it will take.

An oldie but a goodie from 1907

Because its Monday

Once upon a time the Korean martial of Tae Kwon Do was my chosen activity – it is an activity I first took up when I was 12 and stayed with for a decade. So it is no wonder I found this video somewhat endearing – Little blokes going at it Unfortunately, it encapsulates the…

Its not the economy stupid….its price

I am regularly send odds and sods by various peanuts (usually economists) telling me what the market should and shouldn’t be doing. Unfortunately, they are making a fundamental flaw – the stockmarket is not the economy. The stockmarket is a pricing mechanism based upon the aspirations and perceptions of populations and these populations are not…

I love a good currency punch up

This is a list of the currency currency conflicts floating around the international markets compiled by Paul Mason of the BBC. China versus the USA: in which the US wants China to allow the RMB to rise against the dollar, weakening China’s competitiveness by raising the price of Chinese exports. There is the USA versus…