Did you know the COO of Barclays…

…is named Richie Rich?

Well, almost.

Central Banking Explained

(Credit: Bill Rempel)

Stroking my ego, among other things

Look, Ma, my first endorsement. (Warning: Very not safe for work.)

Thanks for the link, creepy post-modern porn guy! Something like half of my readers (all six of them) now get here via your site.

As for the analysis of my psychology…Â No comment.

Well, sure, it starts with cheap labor

But it ends with Charlton Heston kneeling in the sand before the Statue of Liberty screaming “Damn them all to hell!!!”

Monkey waiters in Japan

Ah, crud, they caught me on camera

Talking to Crazy Guys Outside the NYSE

I decided to start this post with the humor and work my way towards the somber.

Shortest. Currency Peg. Ever. (Iceland again)

If you want to see how an actual professional traded today, check out Macro Man. (He is in London and so is his clock.) The currency […]

Strategery Capital

Brilliant.

Calculated Risk fear index

(Note 2009-04-10: This broke back in February when CR migrated to JS-Kit, which does not offer the visitor count. Now that hoocooda/node offers the visitor count again, I just need to update my scripts to slurp it. Soon…)

(Note 2009-04-12: Fixed.)

Calculated Risk is the best economics blog on the Internet. The “regulars” have observed […]

Tempting…

I think I will have to buy one of these.

The Spiral

Pure genius.

The German words that I recognize — all five or six of them — do appear in the subtitles, so I guess the translations must be real.

Update 20080819

No, seriously, you have to watch these.

Bits of trivia:

Thanks to an anonymous comment on Dealbreaker, the original film has been identified as […]

Wall Street humor

Central Bank Spam (not bad)

“I’m on the Goldman trading floor now” (brilliant)

Update on Corte Brezo (funny in a different way)

Another stroke of genius from The Onion (picture alone worth the trip)

OK those last two really have nothing to do with Wall Street.