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Last week has been a very exciting time for anyone with any money in the stock markets. The KLCI plunged to lows not seen since the depths of the financial crisis of 2008, then strongly rebounded over the next couple of days. Anyone who had bought SP Setia’s warrants early in the week practically saw [...]

So Greece is getting a bailout amounting to 750 billion Euros despite Angela Merkel swearing up and down that it wouldn’t happen. At least she’s getting some serious heat in Germany over it and it looks as if her days in political office are numbered. Apparently she gave in because she did not want to [...]

I haven’t had as much on the Internet as I’d have liked this month, so apologies for having only two articles this time. The first one is an odd feature from New York Magazine that doesn’t really count as a real science article at all, but is relevant enough that I think merits inclusion. The [...]

I read with some amusement today’s article in The Malaysian Insider on plans by the Royal Bank of Scotland to target rich women in Singapore as clients for its private banking arm. Granted, I’ll never have enough money to even be considered as a client for a private bank, so I’m open to charges of [...]

Since I got into, well, not exactly an argument, but at least a rather heated discussion over this topic on the LYN forums, I thought it might be interesting to write down a summary of my posts there and also what I’ve learned from that thread. Please note that all of this mostly applies only [...]

I meant to post this earlier but my net connection, along with it seems that of a large number of other Malaysians, was down for the better part of Friday and Saturday. Here’s a link to an amusing article that I read on The Economist. Apparently one unexpected side effect of the current financial crisis [...]

I meant to post this last week but work got in the way and I never got around to doing it. This is a link to a piece on Iceland, arguably the single greatest casualty of the financial crisis. Since it’s written by Michael Lewis of Liars’ Poker fame, it’s unsurprisingly very insightful and well-written. [...]