Pensions and Other Things
(I have to issue a geek alert at the beginning of this post. Many of the topics discussed below – pension accounting, Chinese demographics and UK electoral mathematics – have,
(I have to issue a geek alert at the beginning of this post. Many of the topics discussed below – pension accounting, Chinese demographics and UK electoral mathematics – have,
Greece: Lots of Losers and a Few Winners I have just finished reading an article that claims that some married women in Greece are turning to prostitution to make ends
By now everyone knows that last Thursday the Swiss did what the orderly and predictable Swiss are never supposed to do: they shocked the world. Or at least the financial
I lead a sad life in many ways. Which explains why I was up at 6am on January 1 flipping through the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans looking
Another day, another multi-billion dollar settlement. Business as usual down in Charlotte, NC, home to Bank of America. I’ve lost track of all the settlements, but the New York Times
You can’t keep a good man down. That is why I was so pleased to see the CEO of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon (a.k.a., the “Tallest Midget in the Circus”),
I have just finished reading The Secret Race, Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-Ups, and Winning at all Costs, by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle.
As a former employee of Goldman Sachs, I sometimes receive e-mails addressed to the “Goldman Sachs Alumni Network”. The latest one is entitled “Media Interest in Greg Smith’s Book” and
“China was in a bubble and their bubble’s bursting”. That is not me talking, although I have been saying that for a long time. That is Ray Dalio, founder of