"Des waerelds doen en doolen, is maar een mallemoolen,"

"Des waerelds doen en doolen, is maar een mallemoolen," engraving from Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, 1720.

"The actions and designs of the world go round as if in a mill." South Sea bubble financial crisis.

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Missing the good old scandals

Patrick Chappatte for the International Herald Tribune, July 18, 2012
















If you think the LIBOR fraud were difficult to understand, wait until the alegation of this one are proven to be true. FINMA - Switzerland financial regulator - is investigating some swiss banks for possible manipulation of FX rates, among which the WM/Reuters FX rates, used as benchmark for "90 percent of currency derivatives contracts, such as swaps and options". It is getting harder and harder to even joke about it :)

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