I Am Blind
“Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.” – Edwin Land. Rosser Reeves was one of the most celebrated American…
Greater fool theory
“Mr Draghi announced this week that the ECB would not buy bonds yielding less than minus 0.2 percent..” – Ralph Atkins for the Financial…
New high! (Zzz.)
“The FTSE 100 has at last topped the record it set at the close of 1999. Should Britons celebrate ? Probably not.” – John…
A matter of trust
“Popping down to #guardiancoffee later on to order a ‘Toynbee’: short, rich and intensely bitter.” – Tweet from Robbie Collin (chief film critic, The…
“A more serious disaster later on..”
“Another day, another central bank failure. In a world of currencies backed only by confidence, every failure is masqueraded as success. Like the ballet…
Asset managers or asset gatherers?
“The Bank of England paid nearly £3m of taxpayers’ money for a report on whether any of its staff knew about or were involved…
Puppets pushing on a string
“I don’t think there is a problem that this will fix. I think it will just continue to compress yields into negative territory. If…
Money worries
“I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I…
Beyond satire
“Je ne suis pas Charlie. I am not Charlie, I am not brave enough. “Across the world, and certainly across Twitter, people are showing…