The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Congress, April 2011 ; "Moody's Corp and Standard and Poor's triggered the worst financial crisis in decades when they were fo...

I am periodically given cause to reflect on the bizarre attitudes that quite a lot of science and computer science types have towards financ...

So the big economic news of the day is that Greece is going to default , and that the ECB and the IMF are going to bail them out. The first ...

One of the things I find interesting about casinos is how they expose people's odd ideas about what makes a good stock purchase. In po...

Mental accounting is the idea that people think about outcomes in terms of particular categories, or mental accounts. You think of the prof...

Greg Mankiw links to this very interesting paper  by William Davis, Bob Figgins, David Hedengren, and Daniel Klein in Econ Journal Watch. I...

Via Zero Hedge , comes Ice Cap Management's assessment of the fiscal situation in Greece. It includes these two pearlers: To put the si...

Every now and again, you stop and think that we live in a very remarkable society. One of the things that brought this feeling was giving ...

In the category of 'stupid mistakes I make that I will admit to', let me add this one. Procrastination is a ...

What can I do? Take my business elsewhere? Negotiate a better deal? Start a competitor that offers the service and undercut them? Nah, t...

I recently saw a bunch of ads for Fidelity Investments. At the bottom, in small print, they included this terribly useful advice: "Inv...

When figuring out what measures will reduce costs people love to fixate on variable costs. They doubly love to fixate on variable costs that...

"About 50 high polluters to bear carbon tax brunt, Greg Combet tells Press Club" Politicians love statements like this. Don't ...

Comedy gold! (In case you didn't get the joke, a SFW answer here )

The other day I saw a billboard ad for a movie called 'Arthur'. (You can watch the trailer here , but I wouldn't recommend it). ...

Via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal , the best comic on the internet (it's true, you xkcd fanboys).

It is always a good rule of thumb that when people say they want one thing and consistently do another, this should make you suspicious of w...

Article headline: " Prime Minister Julia Gillard has launched the new Holden Cruze ". Honestly, what the hell is the Australian ...

Oh, the tasty Schadenfreude. San Francisco provides a subsidy for  low-flow toilets . San Francisco gets huge stench from low flow toile...

One of the great things about markets is when they expose the dumb and contradictory things that people believe. When it comes to relieving ...