The Great Ganesha

Phillip Glass composed an opera about the life of Gandhi in S. Africa and called it ‘Satyagraha’. He did this in the 80s. It’s finally being performed in England now. In Sanskrit. Why Sanskrit?
…composer Glass used the Sanskrit text because it allowed him to communicate through sound without “the limitations of literal meaning”.
So now Sanskrit [...]

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Interesting blog by a bunch of (I guess) econ students of which at least one is from Harvard. I like it. Here’s the description:
We serve food for thoughts: from Marshallian Pie to Equilibrium Croissant to Keynes Liberated. On weekends, we have life music by Monetary Swing and Separating Hyperplane.
Got to be an econ geek to [...]

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The title got your attention, didn’t it? Well, might as well tell you that there’s no nudity. It’s just that I came across three (count ‘em) articles about sex in my usual procrastinatory surfing activities.
This one in the LA Times, talks about safety in the bathhouses in LA which are known for their use as [...]

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This pic on the Ace of Spades HQ actually just says one word…
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With the merger of the NYSE with Archipelago, there’s talk that the specialists will now be eliminated as far as trading of ETFs (or Exchange Traded Funds) are concerned.
If you know anything about finance and trading on the NYSE, then you know that the “specialists” are those traders who match buyers with sellers on the [...]

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