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==={{Helvetica|What’s new}}===
==={{Helvetica|What’s new}}===
*Lean manufacturing and the [[seven wastes of negotiation]]: Imagine your [[ISDA]] was a [[Toyota Corolla]], and it all starts making sense.
*{{gmslaprov|Cross Default}} in the [[GMSLA]]: a good idea? or — yeah, not so much.
'''[[Confi Anatomy]]''': It may be the most pointless contract you'll ever negotiate, but doesn’t mean it can’t get tasty. Having an [[NDA]] smackdown? We've [[Confi Anatomy|got you covered]].<br>
'''[[Confi Anatomy]]''': It may be the most pointless contract you'll ever negotiate, but doesn’t mean it can’t get tasty. Having an [[NDA]] smackdown? We've [[Confi Anatomy|got you covered]].<br>
'''New {{anatomy}} guides''': [[Pledge GMSLA Anatomy‎|Pledge GMSLA]]  |  [[Negotiation anatomy|Negotiation]]  |  [[Conference call anatomy|Conference calls]] <br>
'''New {{anatomy}} guides''': [[Pledge GMSLA Anatomy‎|Pledge GMSLA]]  |  [[Negotiation anatomy|Negotiation]]  |  [[Conference call anatomy|Conference calls]] <br>
'''[[And, as the case may be, or]]''': Is that a ''[[slash]]'' I see before me?


==={{Helvetica|So you wanna...}}===
==={{Helvetica|So you wanna...}}===

Revision as of 11:49, 4 June 2019

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The contrarian in all of us
The Jolly Contrarian
“An opinion is just an onion with a pi in it.”

A stroll through the brambles of law, management, philosophy, language, technology, cricket and high finance. Like a good alluvial fan, everything is silting up nicely and there are now 4,497 articles in this wiki.

What’s in here

Anatomies: Clause-by-clause Anatomy and nutshell guides (hit the bar on the left) to ISDA and other master trading agreements. These may be incomplete, out of date, out of touch, flippant — well, they are flippant — but will still be better value and more entertaining than that awful FT book about derivatives;
Book reviews culled from twenty indolent years sounding off on Amazon;
Much flippancy about plain English, buzzwords, technology, negotiation, flannel, Latin, Greek, metaphor and eggs.
A new section on the odd political situation in New Zealand in 1982. (Why? — long story, really.)

How ...?

Oh, for heaven’s sake. To browse, use the bar on the left. To search, use the box top right.

What’s new

Confi Anatomy: It may be the most pointless contract you'll ever negotiate, but doesn’t mean it can’t get tasty. Having an NDA smackdown? We've got you covered.
New Anatomy™ guides: Pledge GMSLA | Negotiation | Conference calls

So you wanna...

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