my one and only invention

Posh luncheterias should wrap their takeaway toasted sandwiches in goretex to eliminate the inevitable sogginess.

Thank you

 

A man is known by the company he keeps (part 2)

15:32:40  JL : to be honest though today is the first day all year i have not been fundamentally bullish on the long term picture for equities--mainly on news that Obama was creating a "Car Czar"

15:33:05  PM : please please please let it be someone called Gabor.

15:33:12  *** JL  rang the bell

 

Please don’t think any less of me…

 

For the record

I just want it to be known that I think Keynes was a dick. And his investments were nearly completely wiped out by the first great depression (GD1) so his advice is exactly what I don’t need right now. And he was probably smelly too.

 

How fooked is the UK?

Many people will tell you that the last time the UK base rate was 3% was in 1955. What they won’t tell you is the last time the rate was cut by 1.5% was in 1854….

 

We have a new winner

Welcome to the biggest company in the world

 

 

Giving you the Viennese finger

This is the intra-day chart for Erste Bank, the biggest bank in Austria. Somebody bought a share for 3,709,279,716,994,000,000 euros. And then a couple of hours later, somebody sold a share for nothing – just gave it away.

 

Now this could be some new-fangled trading strategy that I’ve not come across before. Alternatively, the Austrians couldn’t be bothered to go into work and let a bunch of cats do their trading for them today.

Did you know that...

…Iceland claims to have invented the concept of “Buy One, Get One Free” in the UK? It’s done so well that the whole country is now pioneering “Buy One, Get Nothing Back At All”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_(supermarket)