I’ve always been a big fan of France, and of banks losing billions of dollars (yes I know it’s the customer and the taxpayer who pay in the end but it’s still fun to watch). So todays news that Jerome Kerviel, the trader implicated in the recent $8Billion loss at Societe General is suing for […]

An article posted on the Motley Fool investment blog got me thinking. Since the only thing the RIAA seems to care about is money and the bottom line, it will probably be investors who ultimately force them to turn away from this ridiculous cycle of law suites and intimidation against customers. The gust of the […]

I remember reading something in the spring about Circuit City firing anyone making 51 cents or more above an arbitrary maximum average. Because we all know how generic sales people are, I’d much rather have the “I don’t know what that is” high school kid helping me than the guy who’s been doing it for […]

So apparently someone in the USA is printing their own negotiable currency backed by gold and silver reserves. Just like in the old days when bread was a nickel and I wore an onion on my belt, because that was the style at the time.Even though there used to be hundreds, if not thousands of […]

Check out this interesting piece on the pervasiveness of racism. It’s written by a guilty academic and centred around postcards. I mean bad post cards, not bad like the ones that show bikini babes that say “Wish you were her”. P.S. I just got a 38.8% pay raise. Suck it whitey.