Euro Crisis Diagram
The New Your Times has updated a diagram showing the relative debt positions of the main players in the Euro crisis. It includes the US, Japan and China. The size of the circles reflects the country’s GDP and the colour Read More
The Toss of a Coin?
Fifty percent Heads, fifty percent Tails? Apparently not. Some scientists, Persi Diaconis, Susan Holmes, and Richard Montgomery have done a huge amount of research into this subject and here are the main findings. If the coin is tossed and caught, Read More
The Euro Voting Process Explained?
A ‘Friday Funny’ from The Reformed Broker Other snippets worth a mention, even in these strange times, include: Taxman offering an amnesty to 6,000 HSBC clients with Swiss accounts Credit Suisse shutting its CMBS loan division 11 years in prison Read More
Steve Jobs by Stephen Fry
A very good, and well written, piece by Mr Fry that is both personal and very readable.