Ramen Review

Πιθοσ της Πανδώρας NO!
Boy, what a night.
But first things first. As you doubtlessly have heard, markets rebounded pluckily (as English and other assorted weirdos would say) following the announcement that the ECB may in fact buy national bonds after all, provided they are laundered through an intermediary. Which may or may not be a good thing (the Well-Endowed One’s Pitcher has been invoked[de:]) — it did certainly shore up the Euro, but it is liable to create increased inflation in … read more

“Gutti“’s conception of things military must have been heavily influenced by his clan’s ancestor worship of his great-great-uncle. After all, Karl Ludwig was the Good Nazi[de:] of the von und zu Guttenbergs, and many of us Germans did not have even remotely good Nazi ((great-)grand)fathers at all. Mine were both moderately to fairly serious assholes for example. Not involved in exceptional brutality, but definitely eager cogs in the machine til the end, and that is about average. But Karl Ludwig … read more

N225 chickened out Monday morning as closing time approached, lost 4.5%; indices are bleeding like a butchered pig today. DAX struggled w/4k, lost. Tomorrow’s gonna be interesting; the bears, though, seem to have lost this round, though the N225 in Mon-Tue night recovers some.
Still, they know that they can make some sort of “recovery” — make some money, sort of. Which is all the collective hive-mind of the buck marketeers would want at such a time: swap some derivatives or … read more