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09 December 2008

A couple of rants and a bit of humour...

Busy day on the FT yesterday. First Taleb continues his campaign against VaR and mainstream financial mathematics (see earlier post). Second the CDS market is damned by John Dizard. And on a lighter (but related) note, Jonathan Davis updates us on the behaviour of the fickle "Mr Market family".

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