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  • Dollar Strength on Recognition of Worldwide Crappiness
  • Robinson Crusoe and the Subjectivity of Desire
  • Reflections on Today, from Henry Clews, 1908.
  • Art Market Rules
  • The Long View... 1885-2009
  • Forecast: The Battle Between Paper and Tangible Assets, A Personal View
  • Tobin's Q
  • Luxury Goods
  • After the Gold Rush...
  • The Gaussian Fallacy and other Bullshit Baby Boomer Epistomologi
  • Douchebag of the Noughties
  • Synopsis of the Panic of '08
  • You Know its a Bubble When...
  • Quantitative Easing
  • Vallejo, CA

20 February 2011

Finance is awesome.

Swap contracts for Saudi Arabia, used as a measure of confidence although the country has no debt to insure, jumped 11.5 basis points to 138 last week, the highest since July 2009.
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