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Category: economics
Ha. I wimped out of "bonii" cos I wasn't sure of my grammar. Anyway: Bankers are this year's terrorists, who were last year's paedophiles, who were the year before's witches. Which is to say, everyone appears to be convinced...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:26 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
Our share price, over the last 5 days. Exciting, isn't it? No, I have no idea why it is doing this, and (of course) if I did I wouldn't be able to tell you :-)....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:09 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
One thing that has puzzled me for a bit about the current mess is the intereaction between the Government and the Central Bank (Bank of England or BoE, in our case). So the government is raising money by selling Gilts,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
At least we are as I write this. What we are when you read this I don't know. Disclaimer: this post contains no inside information at all....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:07 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
Well, that was the Beeb headline, to The UK Treasury has failed to sell all its government bonds in an auction for the first time since 2002. But in fact It wanted to sell £1.75bn of 40-year bonds, but investors...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:05 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
Via Steinn, who got it from CR, this delightful story of how people are now so scared of losing unknown amounts of money they are prepared to sign up to a certain but small absolute loss (and thats neglecting inflation)....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
REM, of course. Or perhaps more appropriately, Its the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine). I won't elaborate on the I-feel-fine for the sake of not tempting fate, not that I'm superstitious mind you....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
Just a minor addition to the vast streams of pap being written and spoken about the current crisis (what crisis?). Inspired by watching financial TV in my hotel room. Iceland seems to have sold itself to the Russians "We have...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
Scenario one: you borrow some money. You exchange the money for shares. The shares go up, you exchange the shares for more money than originally, and so pay back the loan and you have a profit. If you get it...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:02 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
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