Market Manipulation Muddle

Cairo – (BBP) Members of the OPEC cartel met in Cairo over the weekend and came away suggesting there may be further cuts in production announced at their next meeting in December in Algeria.
If OPEC members pledge to cut production at the Algeria meeting, it would be the third time this year such a step [...]

1791 And All That

San Francisco – (BBP) To paraphrase Douglas Adams (1952-2001): Google is big. Really big. You won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down to the Food Barn for a loaf of bread, but that’s just peanuts compared to Google.
Google Inc. (Google) is an American [...]

Food for Thought (No. 2)

“Why should it be that it’s perfectly legitimate to support the Labour party or the Conservative party, Republicans or Democrats, this model of economics versus that, Macintosh instead of Windows – but to have an opinion about how the Universe began, about who created the Universe…no, that’s holy?”
Douglas Adams, speech at Cambridge University, 2001