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'''[[The Devil’s Advocate]]''': A growing body of nonsense — [[systems analysis]], [[behavioural economics]], [[design principles]] and so on — about how we ''should'', but generally ''don’t'', carry on.<br>
{{cat|Essays}}
'''[[Anatomy|Anatomies]]''': [[Anatomy]] and [[nutshell]] guides to [[master agreement]]s. These may be out of date, unfashionable, flippant — well, they ''are'' flippant —  but, being free, are better value than that [[FT book about derivatives]]; <br>
{{cat|Reviews}}
'''Much flippancy''' about [[plain English]], [[buzzword]]s, [[technology]], [[negotiation]], [[flannel]], [[Latin]], [[Greeks|Greek]], [[metaphor]] and [[:category:Egg|egg]]s. And [[Toto]].
{{cat|Design‎}}
{{cat|Management‎}}
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'''[[Business day convention]]''': When [[day count fraction]]s get together for a knees-up in ’Vegas, ''look out''. <br>
{{cat|ISDA}}
'''{{csaprov|Minimum Transfer Amount}}:'''  What’s the ''least'' [[margin]] I have to give my [[broker]]?<br>
{{cat|Securities Financing}}
'''{{csaprov|Independent Amount}}''': [[Margin]] that’s mouthy. <br>
{{cat|Emissions}}
'''[[Cross acceleration]]''': Speeding after an argument with the spouse, or what?<br>
{{cat|Boilerplate}}
'''[[Credit risk mitigation techniques]]''': Hoo boy. If ''this'' is popular, then ''someone’s'' bored.<br>
'''[[Without limiting the generality of the foregoing]]''': Some [[legal eagle]]ry right there, friends<br>
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“'''[[Africa|Does Kilimanjaro rise above the Serengeti]]?'''” That perennial hot topic that never goes cold. (Spoiler: ''No''.)<br>
{{cat|Office life}}
“'''[[Golgafrincham]]'''”: [[Middle management]], as foretold by Douglas Adams <br>
{{cat|Finance fiction}}
“'''[[Crazy Ivan]]'''”: Black-belt [[conference call]] misbehaviour.<br>
{{cat|Opco Boone}}
“'''[[I’m not going to die in a ditch about it]]'''”: That greatest of all [[negotiation]] climb-downs.<br>
{{cat|Otto Büchstein}}
“'''[[Brother Maynard]]'''” Consult the book of armaments, friends! <br>
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“'''[[Yogababble]]'''”: That most millennial mode of [[flannel]]ry<br>
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Latest revision as of 15:40, 2 February 2024

The Devil’s Advocate
Notes on the absurdity of office life.

For the legal eagles
Common legal agreements, examined.

For malcontents
Miscellany. And eggs.

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