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  • 08:02, 1 May 2024The Unaccountability Machine (hist | edit) ‎[16,719 bytes]Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|book review|{{image|Unaccountability Machine|}}}}The epic judicial processes of 2024 have been Tom Hayes appeal against LIBOR rigging, about which we have had much to say elsewhere, and the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. Much of the engineering of corporate administration — you hardly need a doctorate in operations research to know there’s a lot of it — is there specifically to prevent bad apples — or stupid apples — subverting the system...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
  • 10:41, 30 April 2024Calculation Amount - 2021 ISDA Definition (hist | edit) ‎[35 bytes]Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|DI|2021|Calculation Amount}}")
  • 10:30, 30 April 2024Calculation Amount - ISDA Definition (hist | edit) ‎[58 bytes]Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|DI|2021|Calculation Amount}}")
  • 12:42, 24 April 2024The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (hist | edit) ‎[7,181 bytes]Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|film review|}}''This review was originally published on January 13, 2006'' <br> Slickly edited but all the same simple-minded, misconceived, rubbish. The film’s political perspective seems to be something like anarcho-syndicalism: the view that a society should be free of all compulsory rules, where all individuals will voluntarily work towards the common goals of the community, unconstrained by the imposed hierarchy of government or capitalism. Well, it’s...")
  • 21:41, 22 April 2024Read/write (hist | edit) ‎[2,808 bytes]Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|systems|}}as we have technologies we have moved from read (passive) to read/write (active and interactive) while our language has moved from interactive write/read (interpretative imaginative) to read (symbol processing/data processing) and due to requirements of scale systems have moved to dynamic complex systems to simpler ones in the interests of control focused with no interaction, responsibility {{Sa}} *{{Br|The Unaccountability Machine}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
  • 07:53, 22 April 2024Bonus (hist | edit) ‎[4,266 bytes]Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{A|work|}}A time-honoured incentive plan for agents, by agents. Financial services firms have long struggled with the distinction between ownership and service. A firm’s owner takes her reward from the investment of capital — cash that the firm uses to acquire kit, rent premises, pay suppliers and hire staff, all in the collective enterprise of selling things — goods or services — for a return exceeding that capital outlay. As long as the firm does that, it...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
  • 09:04, 19 April 2024Mean reversion (hist | edit) ‎[701 bytes]Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|glossary|}}{{d|Mean reversion|/miːn rɪˈvɜːʃᵊn/|n|}} A financial assumption that an asset’s price will tend to converge to its average price over time, or the economic constraints over time that should, rationally control the price. So house prices and incomes should bear a constant relationship over time, and if house prices get out of whack, as they tend to do, the effect will be transitory.")
  • 08:43, 19 April 2024Chez Guevara (hist | edit) ‎[974 bytes]Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|myth|}}{{quote|A ten minute walk, and it appeared out of the haze. ''Chez Guevara'': the revolutionary cafe. She opened early, rain or shine. <br> She was wiping glasses on the beachfront bar. He took a pew. <br> She slapped a short black on the table. <br> “Make it –”<br> She dolloped it with ''rakija''. <br> “I know, Boone-san, I know. ''Correto''.”<br> “You treat me so bad.” <br> “It’s what I do.”<br> Sokitume dug her elbows on the bar. She lea...")
  • 06:58, 14 April 2024Against Empathy (hist | edit) ‎[411 bytes]Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|book review|{{image|Against Empathy|jpg|}}}}{{quote|But on the whole, it’s a poor moral guide. It grounds foolish judgements and often motivates indifference and cruelty. It can lead to irrational and unfair political decisions, it can corrode certain important relationships, such as between a doctor and a patient, and make us worse at being friends, parents, husbands, and wives.}} {{Sa}} *Empathy") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
  • 13:03, 13 April 2024Banter is good (hist | edit) ‎[2,458 bytes]Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|work|}}{{quote| I am not a destroyer of reputations, I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that banter, for lack of a better word, is good. Banter is right, greed works. Banter clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Banter in all of its forms. Banter for life, money, love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind, and banter – you mark my words – will not only save Teldar Paper, but that othe...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
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