Arseholes

The Telegraph – Staff are understood to have received quarterly bonuses last Monday. It is not clear whether the bonuses were also received by staff in the US. The news is likely to anger those MF Global customers who have still been unable to access money they held with the broker It is not surprising that people…

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TV

I have been following The Atlantics remarkable photo essay on WW2. The entire series can be found here Parts of it as you would expect are brutal in the extreme but it does show the extraordinary resilience of people in times of appalling violence. The current series is about life after the war and the image below…

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Volatility

I came across this interesting little graphic in the NYT at the weekend and thought interesting little picture might see what the underlying article has to say.  To save you the trouble of reading it, the article is a little piece regarding volatility and the lack of movement in the S&P500. The concluding paragraph of the article is as…

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