Ethics And Honesty Rating
At least stockbrokers are still ranked ahead of land rats…..sorry real estate agents.
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
From Rolling Stone…Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent…
DetailsThe Golden Rage
This is from the Jon stewart show. Some of you may have trouble viewing this video. If you do run Chrome or Firefox and install MediaHint which is available here. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook This little add on enables you to by…
DetailsHow Much Should We Trust Economics?
I was in the process of writing a piece on this very subject.As luck would have it someone has done a much better job.
What Commodities Boom Would That Be?
Whilst my grasp of macro economics is about as good as Tony Abbotts grasp of evolution I do know that to have a mining boom you need two things and two thing only. Rising commodity prices and a booming customer. Everything is superfluous to the equation and can be discarded. This is the Shanghai Composite.…
DetailsGold and Silver – Where Do We Go From Here?
The above title is not mine – I pinched it from a blog called Behavioural Macro that someone emailed me a link to. I used it because it is instructive of a number of failings that traders have. The blog this headline comes from is a contradiction – supposedly a blog with a leaning toward behavioural…
DetailsAre Short Sellers Positive Feedback Traders? Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis
During the recent global financial crisis, regulators, politicians and high-profile media coverage blamed short sellers for amplifying stock market downturns. Regulatory authorities in a number of countries imposed short-sale constraints aimed at preventing excessive stock market declines. This paper examines bans on selected financial stocks in six countries during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. These…
DetailsResources Boom?
Last night I caught a snippet on Woodside calling it quits on a prject in WA. Ordinarily this wouldn’t worry me but I was intrigued by all the crap speak that surrounded the event. So I went in search of what was actually happening. – Woodside Petroleum Ltd. has decided against using the Western Australian…
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