Polemic's Pains

There is often a big disconnect between what people expect to receive an what they actually receive. Management or client relationship atte...

If FIFA were a bank - It would make BCCI look like a charity. Sepp Blatter would have to move to a regulatory environment under which hi...

Having just seen that banking fines have reached $235bio, my mind turned to the power that regulators have to apply almost randomly large fi...

As the markets are little dull today and we are in the midst of school exam time I thought I would ask some of my own 'compare and cont...

What a difference one letter ’s’ makes turning cure into curse. The small addition of one letter is linguistically huge as is asking a sim...

I too looked at that bund chart and thought 'typical spike exhaustion sell off'. The rebound amidst a mood of 'get me the hell o...

Yours truly can breath again having held his breath for probably longer than is safe, losing a few brain cells along the way. The enforced h...

Today, Ed Miliband and the Labour Party launched their plan to make the UK the hub of global technological expertise with the launch of the...

I used to like Draghi, he was the force of reason behind the chaos of European politics. The man trying to keep the whole political mess to...

I have always maintained that crossing the zero bound to negative yield results in behaviour that doesn’t cross as easily and instead diverg...

We all know about Grexits, but it is probably worth covering all further derivations of the Grex meme. Grexcell - How good the Greeks ar...

Take a share, any share. If it pays a dividend how do you calculate its theoretical price? To be honest I don’t know because it would appea...

Turn up the music LOUD and sing along with the words below as we tell Yellen just what we really think to the her weasely Fed timing word...

Whale oil beef hooked. Look at the price of oil and oil stocks. Though I have been out of oil for a while I have been watching it with kee...

I was once considered the IT Geek. I used to be able to write programs in machine code and I always knew which bit of tech was top of the pi...

I have recently read a few good pieces on why Germany needs to do more to iron-out its internal structure problems.  They focus largely on t...

I am beginning to feel that the talk of QE did more good than its actual execution. This could fast turn into a QE QAR QRASH. EU QE is like ...

To paraphrase Churchill "Never in the field of EU bond buying has so much been expected to be bought by so few from so many." Th...