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.
Experts on Experts
Here is some thoughts reported by The Canadian Star on ‘experts’ by a man who decided to study experts after his financial advisers lost him 50% in the credit crunch. There are some great examples of experts that do not Read More
Performance & Productivity
Here are a couple of interesting articles. The first, from Barking up the wrong tree, is about your personal performance and how in the short-term you can improve it. Does it also explain why management is generally so poor in Read More
Triple your pizza eating?
At the beginning of the week Domino Pizza announced with their half-year profits that they are trebling their marketing budget (the City AM article). This is an interesting move and shows how stronger companies can take advantage of the downturn Read More
The Curse of Negativity
Doug Kass of ‘The Street’ has written an interesting article on negativity and markets where he makes five main points as to why they are intrinsically positive or optimistic: • Statistically, stocks over the long run tend to rise (on Read More
25 Guys to Avoid on Wall Street
A bit of “Friday Funny” but every investment bank has them and they translate to this side of the pond too. The article gives some very interesting street wisdoms showing up how qualities other than intelligence are very important. All Read More
Productivity
Here is an interesting article from Forbes about Linked In, one of my favourite networking tools. It shows how the emphasis is on being productive, giving you more information about your contacts than just being an address book. It contrasts Read More