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Michael Moore sticks the boot in

Michael Moore, the humble, modest and mild-mannered Academy Award-winning American filmmaker (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11) is making a new movie to be released on October 2nd. Here's the trailer: In case you didn't gather, the focus of the movie is Wall Street and the banks. "The movie is not going to be an economics…

Michael Moore sticks the boot in

Michael Moore, the humble, modest and mild-mannered Academy Award-winning American filmmaker (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11) is making a new movie to be released on October 2nd. Here's the trailer: In case you didn't gather, the focus of the movie is Wall Street and the banks. "The movie is not going to be an economics…

The #1 selling item in the banker’s store

Yesterday, I mentioned the new store chain that has become incredibly successful in most major financial centres of the world over the last year. Visiting the store's owners, I asked them the secret of their success.  Apparently, their stock is incredibly rare and much of it is patented. For example, their most successful product was…

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The #1 selling item in the banker’s store

Yesterday, I mentioned the new store chain that has become incredibly successful in most major financial centres of the world over the last year. Visiting the store's owners, I asked them the secret of their success.  Apparently, their stock is incredibly rare and much of it is patented. For example, their most successful product was…

Fan manure separator

Looks like the banker’s store worked

Having visited many of the major financial centres of the world, I've discovered that a new chain of retail outlets have been opening across the USA and now there's several around Europe too. Their story is one of the major successes of the past year as, serving senior investment bankers, their stock and inventory appears…

PaddleStores

Looks like the banker’s store worked

Having visited many of the major financial centres of the world, I've discovered that a new chain of retail outlets have been opening across the USA and now there's several around Europe too. Their story is one of the major successes of the past year as, serving senior investment bankers, their stock and inventory appears…

PaddleStores

Looks like the banker’s store worked

Having visited many of the major financial centres of the world, I've discovered that a new chain of retail outlets have been opening across the USA and now there's several around Europe too. Their story is one of the major successes of the past year as, serving senior investment bankers, their stock and inventory appears…

PaddleStores

The British Economy for Dummies

A friend sent me this note that explains, in plain English, how we are running our economy: It is the middle of June and raining. The little British beach town is deserted as it’s tough times. Everybody is in debt and everybody lives on credit. Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the…

The British Economy for Dummies

A friend sent me this note that explains, in plain English, how we are running our economy: It is the middle of June and raining. The little British beach town is deserted as it’s tough times. Everybody is in debt and everybody lives on credit. Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the…

Harry Potter and the Prince of Darkness

As most of you know, J.K. Rowling is a British institution and so I sent her this idea for her next book: Harry Potter and his best mates Ron Weasley and Hermoine Granger had managed to live amongst the muggles for many moons without detection. They now realised they had to come out of hiding…

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