New Zealand Professionals - The Filipinos of London
The "rite of passage" of a New Zealand accountant/lawyer/finance graduate is to work a few years in New Zealand and then trot off on an OE to London. I missed that "rite" staying just a little bit longer than my colleagues who had already bolted to Shep's Bush scored a far better job a free fl ...

Currency Diplomacy now and then.
Time is like a river and history repeats. Japan’s ‘novel’ idea of a currency union for Asia is modelled partly on the experience of the Euro. But in fact a closer match for Asia’s current political-economy might well be Europe of 19th Century rather than the 20th. Even then in 1865 the ...


FOR LIBERTY Docum3ntary Is Finished!!! Whoooo!!!
After working on this documentary for over a year I am proud to announce it’s finished as of an hour ago! Tomorrow it ships off to the replicator and we’ll have copies in a few weeks. The main film and bonus sections total just shy of 4 hours of content. We want to thank those on the forum ...

*****Securities Lending And Why Wall Street Sold 2.5 Trillion Treasury IOUs Last October*****
On May 8 I wrote an entry titled *****Naked Short Selling Treasury Settlement Failures And Central Bank Money Printing***** which consisted entirely of pictures. What I was trying to suggest through these graphics was that:1) Last October a combination of factors (hedge fund redemptions crack d ...

Twitter Week in Review
Settling in for a few hours of work. #Listening to 130 on XM discussing the enormous dangers of the White House having its own “news” production channels #http://twitpic.com/69qkj - Here we go again #gasprices #RT @Cyberhomes Should you do a podcast or video…LOL use are you hot or not. Ar ...