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  1. Oops: Banks to stop accepting California IOUs: http://is.gd/1pW6t Tenth largest economy in the world looking like a banana republic...
  2. Not believing my eyes: Sweden starts taxing savers: deposit rate at -0.25 % http://is.gd/1m9aS From the Riskbank: http://is.gd/1m9dE ...
  3. Nodding when reading James Montier in the FT (p.26): The efficient markets theory is as dead as Python's parrot. Amen to that !
  4. The internet as a global village seems to be more of a village than global: http://is.gd/163k2 Technology as an amplifier, not rulebreaker.
  5. Talking about "real-time" info: we have mortgage lift-off. Hat tip Financial Ninja: http://is.gd/15EeA
  6. The paradoxal thing about real time information is that it set expectations so that afterwards everything seems to move in slow motion...
  7. is loving the smell of volatility in the morning... to paraphrase Apocalypse now. I'm rather an optimist by the way :)
  8. Oops: Eurozone: Industrial Production Falls Record 21.6 Percent In April That should help the USD versus the EUR ...
  9. Wondering if there is still anybody out there thinking that the U.S. is worse of in this crisis than the EU ? If so, read http://is.gd/ZKhq
  10. Reading on why there is more pain to come (T2 Partners LLC presentation).
  11. John Delorean, GM [1979]: “Our inability to compete with the foreign manufacturers is more due to management failure than anything else.”
  12. Philadephia sounds in my car while driving to work.
  13. @bnox Google says: féculent = zetmeelrijk
  14. Inflation as expected: Handful of U.K.´s water providers proposed consumer rate increases of up to 3%/y over the next 5y, starting in 2010.
  15. Read an interesting post by J. Hamilton: http://is.gd/qjvp Supply inelasticity meeting rising demand will be back with a vengeance some day.
  16. Bought some aceton at a local Viennese pharmacy for tonights open heart surgery on my beloved laptop. Excited.
  17. Celebrating Gil Scott-Heron's 60th birthday. The revolution will not be televised. Hat tip MetaFilter: http://is.gd/q39c
  18. Wondering if Kim is a party goer or not. Seems like he has set up the fireworks already: http://is.gd/p2R7 (FT retweet)
  19. @inthebackseat Een goed cdtje opzetten ? :)
  20. Wondering where to find rather pure isopropyl alcohol in Bratislava. Need to remove some thermal grease while fixing my laptop...