I  keep business separate not only from pleasure but above all from missions from God (or anyone else). I may hire environmentalists, activists from the right or the left, vegans, animal or minority right defenders, religious or antireligious maniacs as long as I know nothing about it  https://foru...

Sure.I was once the CRO of a bank that had not had a CRO for a few months before. I had to raise the company from the ashes.

The more I know about SVB the more I think that Jay Ersapah was just a scapegoat. Of course she/he/whatever is a politically correct loser and losers gonna lose but I don't think she/he/whatever was the decision maker for the ALM. On the other hand - who is a better scapegoat than an ambicious 'quee...

Get woke, go broke. Jay Ersapah is a politically correct idiot and idiots alway lose money.

You stated that: Bill Russell once said (I think quoting his father), "Choose your enemies well, because you're going to become just like them."

I wanted to test his statement with an example of himself.

He has chosen whites as his enemies, I guess. Did he become white from that?

This issue has been already discussed https://forum.wilmott.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=99163&start=75#p869596

No, they don't.

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I agree in principle. Brexit has strengthened Germany and France in the EU and they are pro-Putin.

Gérard Depardieu, of course! But also Alain Delon and Vincent Cassel, aka the best of France. Merci beaucoup!

Depardiev is rather the best of Russia AFAIK. And even if not the best then the dumbest.

Think about it this way: ever since LCTM there is a lingering suspicion that something might go wrong regardless of your academic and scientific credentials. Clients therefore seek reassurance that all is well with your modelling and one way of doing this is to make sure that your model is "in...

Sorry but ze woman (das Weib) is neutral. Oops.

True. I still remember Russian quants.

Mr Putin is a very intelligent and strongly rational man. This is Russia.

The problem is that history is about facts and psychology consists only of conjectures. ...which could be solved by more focus on psychology.  Game theory for rational behaviour, behavioral finance for irrational but there's something left: extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds....