No, I'm just being ridiculous. It comes naturally. My avatar is really me, if you're interested.

Since you're both here and are both highly opinionated on matters concerning global economics, I'd like to ask if either you have read this?

Oh, hang on I'll have to find the link again (I downloaded the file). Two minutes....

.... or a bit more.

Here... http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/3...blication/566/

You have to download the pdf if you want to. I thought it was funny.

Interesting about excluding the NZ data. I'm not an economist, but I can see how RR's work has influenced austerity programmes. I'm not a supporter of "austerity" at all, and never have been, so this is interesting. Are you an economist, then? What are your views?

No I'm not an economist. I'm a scientist. Economists are not scientists.

Hence the mayhem.

This one is good too.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/maga...urrentPage=all

I've posted that link before because it's fascinating and the author is a friend of mine.

Such duplicity, Sir Hugo

One more comment like that, Shard, and I'll have my associate Mr Jaws throw you out the airlock.

Interesting, thanks. I really should put some effort into learning more about this.

Thats a very interesting piece and thanks for sharing Novo

It goes to show as usual that greed over rules common sense

It rather overplays the common sense, but greed certainly rules the financial markets.

You're welcome. It is rather amusing.

Overplays?

Any eejit knows that if you convolute a gaussian with another one, the result is yet another gaussian with a narrower full-width-half-maximum than the starting ones.

Any eejit except David Li and the Masters of the Universe, that is.

Interesting article (even if the thread has drifted a little).

I've managed to get the weekly shop for a family of 5 down to £60 on a good day and £90 on a bad, and I shake my head at how expensive it is.

Compared to some of the western families I'm a bit of a scrooge it seems.