I Would Put These Little Bastards Up For Adoption
WTF?! I Wanted An iPhone!!!
Its That Time Of The Year
As the New Year approaches we begin to get our usual raft of predictions for the coming year. This is a a corker – someone clearly has a firm grip on their crystal balls.
Rewriting History
This article has apparently been around for some time but I have only just stumbled across it (note to self pay more attention) Apparently the I/B/E/S database that is maintained by Thompson Reuters is subject to extensive rewrites designed to portray analysts in a much better light. Comparing two snapshots of the entire I/B/E/S analyst…
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But he’s OK ……….. ya reckon
An Oldie But A Goodie
I was doing a bit of digging through my archive of bits and pieces when I found the graphic below.
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If you want a neat encapsulation of how financial markets work and the inanity of much of what goes on and the post-dictive rationalisation that everyone employs. Then you should treat yourself to a New Years present from KAL a cartoonist for Economist
What A Dick
Its funny how things never really change – I used to know people like this in the 1980s when I was a broker. In fact it was decision to try and throw one of them out of a window that made me seriously consider my career in the sell side of finance. Did I mention…
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“Can you eat gold? No. You can eat and barter Spam” Nouriel Roubini, economist, Dec 14 2011 I do note that bread may actually have been a better investment than Gold as well. In 1980 the average cost of a generic loaf in Victoria was $0.54 – today this price can be as high as…
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Here is an updated chart with the long term average in red.
