Saturday, March 5, 2011

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

On the Road to Disney World August 2010

Monday, May 3, 2010

Principles of economics, translated

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Thursday, March 25, 2010

YouTube - No You Can't (Featuring John Boehner)

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Saturday, February 7, 2009

The Secret of the Grain

I had the pleasure to watch again yeaterday the excellent "La Grain et le Mulet" with friends in Washington.

http://www.thesecretofthegrain.com/

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Op-Ed Contributor - Dialing for Derivatives - NYTimes.com


"Please listen to the following options. If you do not understand options and would like a tutorial on options, shorts, puts, calls, spreads, hedging, derivatives, credit default swaps, collateralized-debt obligations, front-running or insider trading or would like to access a directory of interior decorators, please press 1."

[Read More : NYTimes.com

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Who's on first?

Best of Abbott and Costello. Always funny!

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Gordon Brown is like an arsonist posing as a firefighter - Telegraph

"The Sunday Telegraph's admirable economics columnist, Liam Halligan, has for months been hammering the point that what is most needed is transparency and an end to uncertainty about the scale of toxic debt in banks' balance sheets. Recapitalisation, though necessary, has not removed the uncertainty. For this reason banks are reluctant to lend to each other, let alone businesses. The Prime Minister has expressed his frustration about this failure to get all the bad news into the open. His remarks hardly inspired confidence. After all, if he doesn't know, who does?"

[Read More:Telegraph]

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Week End Diversion - Banco de Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa

Peaceful and ambiant. From my BestOf

allmusic ((( Last Train to Lhasa > Overview ))): "Review by John Bush

This double-disc concept album concerns the commercial invasion of Tibet by Chinese merchants hoping to overrun the peaceful country. Despite some watered-down beats, Toby Marks weaves Eastern-rhythms and futuristic synth quite well over both uptempo and ambient tracks."

Monday, January 19, 2009

The Wrestler - Official Trailer

Remarkable act by Mickey Rourke. Best actor, next Oscars