Here, a miraculous recovery is explained in The Daily Reckoning. “When it converted into a bank holding company back in 2008, Goldman became eligible to borrow cheap money from the Fed’s discount window. Morgan Stanley did the same thing. As …
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A world policed by half-wits
As you can imagine, nobody is keener on the protection of birds than I am. But some friends we can really do without, as I was reminded when I read the following by that great scourge of buffoons, Richard Ingrams, …
Read MoreThanks, Gareth – and whoever thought this up
The Goldman Sachs Caper Hi – I have this car that I want my friend over here to sell you. I’m pretty sure the brakes will fail and when you hit something, the petrol tank will explode, because the car …
Read MoreWhere do the intellectual sweepings of the gutter end up?
Are all bank systems designed by cretins, or is it just Lloyds’? Yesterday they refused me cash, no doubt because their sophisticated multi-million-pound computers, worried about fraud, haven’t noticed I visit the US 5 or 6 times a year and …
Read MoreA little healthy debate – and my election manifesto. Vote early and vote often for Ian’s dog Moose!
I normally try not to repeat myself too much, but I just had an interesting exchange on Facebook with David Hodson – well, interesting to David and me, anyhow. I first wrote that Gordon Brown in an attempt to seem …
Read MoreWorld’s best seminar invitation: The Power of Assertive Commmunication – for women
Turning aside from the depressing Annual Report and Accounts of Kiddy-Fiddlers-For-Jesus (Rome) Inc., let us get back to business. As regular readers may have noticed, one of my chief pleasures in this wonderful digital age is to take note of …
Read MoreHappy Easter – from Moscow
I thought you might like this. It’s from my Russian publisher, and it rather took my fancy. Tomorrow I’m off to New York to see a couple of my children … and put together my talks for Ken McCarthy’s System …
Read MoreBe careful what you wish for
An Aussie truckie walks into an outback cafe’ with a full-grownemu behind him. The waitress asks them for their orders. The truckie says, ‘A hamburger, chips and a coke,’ and turns to the emu, ‘What’s yours?’ ‘I’ll have the same,’ …
Read MoreSorry, but a good idea is NOT enough
Like most of you, I get a lot of stuff trying to sell me things. I would cheerfully strangle whoever unleashes those bloody recorded messages just about that time in the late afternoon when I think I really need a …
Read MoreWhen it’s party time, an idea for you from a tragic musical failure
Life has a strange way of working. One of my greatest passions is music. I come from a musical family. I love jazz, opera, classics, R and B, Soul, Blues, even a bit of rap and rock – pretty much …
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