Missed a funny from Monday. But this is a pretty good one.From the Onion “New College Graduates To Be Cryogenically Frozen Until Job Market Improves”WASHINGTON—In a bold new me …

Surprise. Not. Very. US Congress issues letter calling China a “currency manipulator”, failing to understand that according to the Confucian analects, currency pegging against the USD is a perfectly acceptable way of paying respects to honorable ancestors. What’s coming? Tariffs. Lots of it. For those who think the economic war between US and China is ...

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the Telegraph seems to think so. According to him, the Chinese politburo – like the Iranian Ayatollahs, the inbreds from North Korea, the Okinawans, and more recently, the Mexican drug lords – are acting on the basic assumption that Obama’s spine is as stiff as mee kia that’s been dipped in boiling ...

A Monday morning funny – which is almost too funny to be fiction.(Got this in an email – If anyone can point the source to me, I’ll credit it).

It’s hardly news, but at least someone somewhere (Mr. Brown from FT based out of KL to be exact) has put a number – negative USD 5.1 billion – to the “dent” put into Singapore savings arising from our involuntary bailout..cough..inve stment into UBS. For percentage aficionados and statistical freaks, that’s a paper loss of 50 ...

R Sivanathy from BT harps on a pet topic of mine, as regular readers would know by reading irregular drivel such as this, this, and this. The points are valid, though Sivanathy softballs the issue, and shys away from outright criticism of the outright conflict of interest inherent in profit-driven market regulator models – such ...

Ok, UOB KH didn’t really say that. But what they did say was:Don’t say you weren’t warned.

From Rolling StoneWall Street’s Bailout Hustle Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren’t just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy – they’re re-creating the conditions for another crash MATT TAIBBIOn January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs. Fast becoming ...

For regular readers, no doubt this morning’s article from BT would have set “Suckers @ Singapore” alarm bells ringing. For those of you are not yet clued in, you might want to read a previous post on how the Chinese government is putting in restrictions on China companies’ ability to raise funding via equity to ...

Maybe it’s the CNY, but I feel compelled to put up some funnies today instead of the depressing drivel that this online rag is more famous for. While this news article (a must-read, btw) is taken from the Onion, I must point out that these were the same guys who were remarkably prescient about how ...