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I’ve got a job to do … writing reports. Speaking about the future of the industry. Chairing meetings about banking matters. Dining with executives and dialoguing about infrastructures. The trouble is, it’s all gone to pot. Whilst the markets are moving faster than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, I don’t…

From the Midget Quest blog, I found this photo: Apparently, someone’s painted the bull on Wall Street with blue balls.  Now we all need a bit of blue-blooded bull balls in the investment markets  if we’re to get this ship back on track!

From the Midget Quest blog, I found this photo: Apparently, someone’s painted the bull on Wall Street with blue balls.  Now we all need a bit of blue-blooded bull balls in the investment markets  if we’re to get this ship back on track!

With the media running headlines 24 hours a day, 7 days a week saying that the world is imploding and it’s all the banks fault, I kinda think that some banks should cut back their ad spending or rethink it.  By way of example Halifax, the UK banking bit of HBOS that has been forced…

With the media running headlines 24 hours a day, 7 days a week saying that the world is imploding and it’s all the banks fault, I kinda think that some banks should cut back their ad spending or rethink it.  By way of example Halifax, the UK banking bit of HBOS that has been forced…

With the media running headlines 24 hours a day, 7 days a week saying that the world is imploding and it’s all the banks fault, I kinda think that some banks should cut back their ad spending or rethink it.  By way of example Halifax, the UK banking bit of HBOS that has been forced…

With the media running headlines 24 hours a day, 7 days a week saying that the world is imploding and it’s all the banks fault, I kinda think that some banks should cut back their ad spending or rethink it.  By way of example Halifax, the UK banking bit of HBOS that has been forced…

This is former CEO, Richard Fuld, giving testimony to Congress about Lehman Brothers’ collapse.  The sequence shows that since 2000, he took home $480 million in remuneration and bonuses and Mr. Fuld is trying to defend it: I wonder if this is the reason why his lights were punched out in the Gym?

Thanks to Paul Penrose for pointing me to the BBC website where they have not just one, but two pages of jokes about the credit crunch.  Here’s a few that made me laugh:   An elderly lady receives an e-mail from the son of a deceased (but wealthy) African general, asking whether he could transfer…

For those interested, you can hear UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, talking about our banking crisis on the new Downing Street podcast service (4 MB download) or you can read the transcript. Here are a few extracts: "I know you’ll be anxious about events of the last few days and weeks – and worried about…