Cassandra Does Tokyo

I tweet not. Half because I constantly doubt the certitude of my own thoughts so if I am to expose to scrutiny, I feel the need to accompany...

Everyone makes mistakes. Perhaps, though, one would be forgiven for wondering if not some mistakes are more intentional than others, such as...

Actually, they killed Zucky's unlucky punters. Yeah, well, what did you expect ? Paying stratospheric prices for something more or les...

It is a miracle that I am here.  At the very least, because you, yourself, were improbable according to statistics and circumstance.  ...

What is the worst business you can imagine? It would be retail, flogging commodity-like products, with more or less perfect competition, l...

While listening to a programme on corruption, my 12-year old daughter was incensed. "Thats's awful!" she chimed, to which I si...

In Japan, generally speaking ,it is 'shame' which keeps people on the straight and narrow. In Douala (Cameroun), it is apparently so...

So farewell then Dynegy, highly leveraged wholesale supplier of electricity. One can endlessly generate apt puns: "Ohm my God, ...

Things, people, ideas believed to have integrity now seemingly compromised...(the updated and expanded version) The "risk-free"...

Irony amuses me. Maybe not as much as tannic satire, or creatively-apt word-smithing, but as a close of cousin of hypocrisy, it stands apart...

Reuters reports  in late breaking news that neither side has been able to hit the back of the net during regulation time. The referee ordere...

Does your financial Guru or Doomster resemble a cult? To satisfy your curiosity, it might be worth taking  simple test that will give you an...

Making money the old-old fashioned way (manufacturing or providing a service to fulfill an under-fulfilled need) or even maki...

My first radio was a black, sixties, Japanese made transistor brick of no import, given to me by my grandfather when I was no more than six ...

One of the first "Old Saws" I learned in my market apprenticeship several decades ago was the adage: "There is always a bull ...

When Bernie Came Out of The Closet , I was not the least bit surprised he was doing something illegal. But as I stated in what was the most ...

Despite parts of New Jersey objectively resembling the armpit of the world, others, defying popular belief, are gorgeous, charming and even ...

Like carbon-dating, one's film references define one's epoch and frames of reference. With the exception of The Life of Brian , and ...

Ask a German about his skiing ability, he might unassumingly suggest that he "can get down the mountain alight". Ask an American, ...

Perhaps Kyle Bass is right. Perhaps we are all buggered and everything is FUBAR. Perhaps what we really need is not VIX protection, CDS and ...