Congress Fights Over Matters of Great Consequence
Oblivious closely followed by oblivion.
Oblivious closely followed by oblivion.
There are some tough decisions ahead. Not!
We all know that the relationship between credit-ratings agencies and the clients they rate is a corrupt one, reeking of moral hazard. Some of us have even laughed when told that a company is triple-A […]
We’ve seen the deaths of Polonius, Claudius, and Laertes, otherwise known as house-price falls, commodity-price rises and bank collapses. There still remains the death of Hamlet himself, the final double-digit percentage stock market crash. That […]
Events of the last year seem to have passed a lot of researchers by. I find it both amusing and disturbing that the same people are still giving the same lectures about the same models […]
I continue to find myself in the middle of the argument over validity of Black-Scholes. On one side are those who we might call “the risk neutrals.” Those heavily invested in the concepts of complete […]
I got a great response to my maths sweet spot blog. Great in the sense of numbers of people writing to me and great in the sense that every single one of them agreed with […]
I just did a photoshoot for Portfolio magazine with the great Jason Bell (photographer to the stars!). He and his team of three (yes, three!) assistants set me up for all sorts of glam shots […]
A recent thread started by Herd (“One who doesn’t understand X is best qualified to talk about it”) reminded me of the following events, which are even worse than Herd’s point. A couple of years […]
I filled up my car’s petrol tank at the weekend. The cost was just a couple of pounds shy of £100. We’ve all heard the reasons behind the recent oil price rises, demand from China, […]
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