Humour

There’s a wonderful rumour that’s circulating about Sir Fred Goodwin taking over from Max Mosley as head of Formula 1, the fast car racing league that travels the world in a carnival of cars and cash. It's not a popular rumour with some, as there’s a lot of anger over Sir Fred’s £4.2 million pension…

Thanks to Jeffry Pilcher at the Financial Brand for his blog on the use of piggy banks in bank advertising. The timing is goof for this as we both blogged banks bonuses as well (his is worth reading from the USA view) and bankers and pigs may not be an unusual juxtaposition.  I guess we…

A while ago, I mentioned Jeremy Clarkson's immortal billboard poster line to advertise the Times: Money and rumpy-pumpy are the twin engines powering everything we do For those unsure about this, 'rumpy-pumpy' means sex.  Mind you, money was invented for sex anyway, so that's nothing new. But what Jeremy and I didn't know is that…

A while ago, I mentioned Jeremy Clarkson's immortal billboard poster line to advertise the Times: Money and rumpy-pumpy are the twin engines powering everything we do For those unsure about this, 'rumpy-pumpy' means sex.  Mind you, money was invented for sex anyway, so that's nothing new. But what Jeremy and I didn't know is that…

I regularly look at the cartoons and Nick Newman, who regularly produces my favourite toons in the Times, wins today with this one: After Dominique Strauss-Kahn's comments on the euro last week, it may be appropriate.

I regularly look at the cartoons and Nick Newman, who regularly produces my favourite toons in the Times, wins today with this one: After Dominique Strauss-Kahn's comments on the euro last week, it may be appropriate.

UK newspaper The Times asked people in Brighton what they understood by the following terms: hedge fund, derivative, sub-prime market, short selling, fiscal stimulus, arbitrage and quantitative easing. The answers are brilliant, and here are my favourites: Hedge fund "Money collected to keep the hedges going?" Derivative "This sounds like the kind of word that…

Sir Alan Sugar, founder of Amstrad and the UK's equivalent of Donald Trump in the TV show the Apprentice, writes in the Sunday Mail about how he got burnt in the 1980's by City brokers. In his own inimitable style he recounts how he gave a broker from Nomura carte blanche to manage his money…

Sir Alan Sugar, founder of Amstrad and the UK's equivalent of Donald Trump in the TV show the Apprentice, writes in the Sunday Mail about how he got burnt in the 1980's by City brokers. In his own inimitable style he recounts how he gave a broker from Nomura carte blanche to manage his money…

I often use this one to open or close a presentation. A boy comes up to his father confused about the daily news always talking about the credit crisis, recession and banking. “Dad”, he says, “how does banking work?” His father thinks about explaining the world’s connections, investment markets, deposits and loans, and so on…