December 2011 ~ Macro Man

Management Talk Awareness Week

We are nearly at the end of 2011 and another year of mayhem behind. We will be judging our 2011 Non-Predictions and trying to dream up some ...

As markets are so quiet, TMM have been leafing through their copy of the latest Radio Times to see what's on TV this Christmas. Hmmm......

We guess that Christmas officially starts now. Most of the City will be nursing headaches after the most popular work party night of the yea...

Something has been bugging TMM for a couple of weeks. Various bits of the market have been behaving in odd ways, that could have many differ...

TMM have lost track of which particular version of the Europlan this is, but would guess it is probably something like Plan K (plus or minus...

European Commision (EC) - What is this? It looks like a bomb! ECB - But it cannot be a bomb! Our analysts tell us that it cannot be! The da...

First up, the ECB's 3m USD tender today produced a take up of $50bn, not an insignificant sum. The Fundingeristas are already arguing th...

There used to be an advert in UK for the TSB (a nice old-fashioned bank, pre short-term money days, now part of Lloyds) which went: "T...

Friday's US data seemed, like a well balanced budget, to have a little bit for everyone in it. A generally poor set of dissectible under...

The only thing that has changed from yesterday in our minds is the brain cell count. Caused by C2H5OH poisoning. HSCEI +C2H5OH = HO and N...

Well, TMM recently noted that they're gaining faith in "Luck" and that new faith was rewarded yesterday. Despite getting the ...