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Roll up, roll up, get your Bear Stearns memorabilia here

Popped onto eBay today and found all this wonderful stuff being sold by Bear Stearns employees to try and top up the coffers lost in the JPM bargain basement sale (although it’s slightly more expensive after JPM upped the ante to $10 a share). There was the award to the development team of a Bear…

Xobni for your inbox

I’ve been trying to get into Xobni’s (inbox backwards) plugin for Outlook for a few weeks, but they’re blocking me out as they’ve been overloaded with demand even though the product is only in Beta test mode.  This is because Bill Gates referred to them as the “the next generation of social networking” and touted…

Xobni for your inbox

I’ve been trying to get into Xobni’s (inbox backwards) plugin for Outlook for a few weeks, but they’re blocking me out as they’ve been overloaded with demand even though the product is only in Beta test mode.  This is because Bill Gates referred to them as the “the next generation of social networking” and touted…

Causes of the Credit Crash, Part Two: The Humans

In Part One, the fact that the markets are technologically turbo-charged was discussed.  Today, it’s the humans fault as technology is only doing what the humans tell the systems to do.  I could talk about SIVs, CDOs, Credit Default Swaps, Hedge Funds and all sorts of other stuff, but I’ve done that before (see "Department…

Causes of the Credit Crash, Part Two: The Humans

In Part One, the fact that the markets are technologically turbo-charged was discussed.  Today, it’s the humans fault as technology is only doing what the humans tell the systems to do.  I could talk about SIVs, CDOs, Credit Default Swaps, Hedge Funds and all sorts of other stuff, but I’ve done that before (see "Department…

The Wall Street Dance

A friend pointed out this video  in French to me.  I’ve no idea why, except that there’s a new dance craze sweeping the world.  The idea is to hold one leg off the floor whilst swinging your arms around.  Not a bad idea.  Apparently, it takes its inspiration from the old English song, the Hokey-Cokey,…

The Wall Street Dance

A friend pointed out this video  in French to me.  I’ve no idea why, except that there’s a new dance craze sweeping the world.  The idea is to hold one leg off the floor whilst swinging your arms around.  Not a bad idea.  Apparently, it takes its inspiration from the old English song, the Hokey-Cokey,…

The Wall Street Dance

A friend pointed out this video  in French to me.  I’ve no idea why, except that there’s a new dance craze sweeping the world.  The idea is to hold one leg off the floor whilst swinging your arms around.  Not a bad idea.  Apparently, it takes its inspiration from the old English song, the Hokey-Cokey,…

The Wall Street Dance

A friend pointed out this video  in French to me.  I’ve no idea why, except that there’s a new dance craze sweeping the world.  The idea is to hold one leg off the floor whilst swinging your arms around.  Not a bad idea.  Apparently, it takes its inspiration from the old English song, the Hokey-Cokey,…

Here is the City does it again

                    It’s been a long time since there’s been a good banking song (the last one I put out there was way back in May last year), Here is the City has come up with another new one.  Bohemian Rhapsody’s subprime blues:   Is this the real price ?…

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