UK Bailout vs. US Rescue Package - Part 1
A good friend of mine, is one of my secret voices when it comes to finance, and I get alot of insight from him. Nick Taleb (I am pissing him off by calling him Nick, but well, you think he is the only...
View ArticleTechnology and Airlines
I like to surf couches. I do alot of my "addictive learning" from a couch, whether it is reading, watching TV, surfing the web or what have you. I also like to surf couches in foreign countries - am...
View ArticleNigeria
One of my good friends and colleagues at work is a brilliant engineer from Nigeria. He used to be a mechanical engineer, then had a career change and joined the software realm....Anyway, I hang alot...
View ArticleEnergy and Nuclear
I always tell my Dad that there will come a day when the far West and far East will tell the Middle East to drink their oil. Oil, is not a sustainable energy source, because well, although for the...
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The Supply-Demand Principle - Oil (I told you so)
Here is a statistic I like. Almost 60% of the world's oil is produced by non-OPEC members. Yes,seven of the world’s fifteen largest oil producers, Russia, the United States, China, Mexico, Canada,...
View ArticleThe Anomaly of Lebanese Banking
Everyone seems to have an identity crisis these days. People seem obsessed about their ancestors and their origin and and...No one seems to come from anywhere anymore, but the more of a fruit salad you...
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The Amero
I was hanging with my friend AJ yesterday, and as we talked through the night, we came upon the discussion of world currencies and the Amero. He claims that through our lifetime, we shall see fewer and...
View ArticleTales from the Basement - Mergers and Acquisitons (1)
There is something about bus stops. Maybe because I often find myself standing at them, alone in the wind, with dim lights, and the wind blowing through my in need-of-a-haircut hair, but they make me...
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Sharia Bonds
I have this habit of walking into phone booths. Maybe because I've never actually used one. With a geek phone that almost makes me coffee, why should I? Maybe it's just my burning urge to make...
View ArticleWhere Internet Search Fails - Outsmart Google
You know, the thing about being a geek is that it is a charachter. Something inborn that you can't change. You can become a financier, you can become a businessman, an artist or a comedian, but its...
View ArticleThe Old Facebook Stupidity
You know what I dislike? It's people's abuse of the internet, and I am not talking about the hackers, crackers, spammers or scammers. Although, what I hate, is when people really think they can control...
View ArticleThe Fed Secrets
The Federal Reserve bank of the United States is, in theory the biggest bank in the world, since it is the central bank of the biggest economy in the world. This bank, currently chaired by Ben...
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Street Smarts
I was up to my old habit of wandering around the city, alone with my thoughts. Walking down one of the streets in East London, I notice an attractive young blonde kind of strolling around, except she...
View ArticleTales from the Basement - Mergers and Acquisitons (2)
So in a previous post, I talked about M&A and how difficult it can be for someone to be M&A'd, because that requires a lengthy and tiresome process of integration and people shuffling and most...
View ArticleFinance for Engineers - The Basic Jargon
I hardly need to explain: trading desks, stock exchanges, papers flying, phones ringing, mice clicking. Its a crazy industry you have to be deranged to understand it. Well, not really. Except if you...
View ArticleThe Oligarchs?
The thing about writing is that you often don't feel like it. When it comes to bloggin, well, writers block looks like a walk in the park, coz for me, it's often more ideas that I believe deserve a...
View ArticleBreaking the AdSense model?
I am a bit tipsy at the moment, but I was having this idea. With my techie mind and my position in the midst of the financial industry, worrying about the recession can become quite interesting of a...
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2008 Re-visited
It's 1:30 am , as the last 24 hours of 2008 start ticking away. I'll be stumbling off a boat at this time tomorrow, as I am taking a boat trip on the Thames for new year. Today, though, I was doing my...
View ArticleReading List
One of my many issues, is that I have too many hobbies, too much interest in a multitude of things, too little time and too short of an attention span. Although, reading, is one of my more enduring...
View ArticleFinance for Engineers - The Advanced Stuff
Some more finance terms for the engineer..... With time working in a financial software house, you learn alot about finance, although at some point you decide that you have to do your own homework, and...
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