Ho John Lee’s Weblog

• Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s
  by Fredrick Lewis Allen written in 1931. See Chapters 12-14 on the 1928 bull market and the 1929 crash.
  (tags: history us financial markets stock crash culture society trading investing risk management)
• Telegraph UK - My brush with absolute perfection
  A columnist tries the Snappy Snaps photo airbrushing service. “For a mere £10, love handles and wobbly bits can be removed from bikini shots, dark circles can be lightened and legs lengthened.”
  (tags: photo beauty advertising digital imaging retouching society culture media random)
• A rush to pull out cash - Los Angeles Times
  “Bill Ashmore drove his Porsche Cayenne to Countrywide’s Laguna Niguel office and waited half an hour to cash out $500,000, which he then wired to an account at Bank of America.”
  (tags: banking credit risk management society culture)

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 19th, 2007 at 12:17 am and is filed under Links. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.