[The] last time AC/DC made No 1 in Britain, the country was on the brink of recession. Back In Black, the album that marked their commercial breakthrough and went on to become the second biggest-selling of all time, was released in 1980, just as inflation had reached 20% and unemployment inched towards 2 million.
›› The Guardian analyses the timings of AC/DC’s chart successes
A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.
›› Warren Buffet has his plate filled with American picks
It’s not based on any particular data point… We just wanted to choose a really large number.
›› A Treasury spokeswoman confides in Forbes.com
No better illustration exists of a culture where private gain has eclipsed the public good, public service, even public decency, and where the cult of the individual has caused the commonwealth to wither… That’s the culture we’ve lived with. It’s over now. Some new American beginning is needed.
›› Roger Cohen from the IHT lambasting the financial sector
Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.
Starbucks is a mass brand attempting to command a premium price for an experience that is no longer special.
The rat will become aggressive at the tail end of the year and its underlying water element will cool the stock market.
›› A feng shui master at the Singapore Feng Shui Centre.
Looks like Microsoft is stepping up the fight against Google with all the billions it can find. (US$45 billion at this point in time.) All I can think about now is if all this will screw up Flickr.
Anyway, after kicking myself for not buying Google stock back in 2004, I am now wishing I had the balls to buy Yahoo! stock a few months ago.
![[View in Wall Street from Corner of Broadway; Engraving from Thirty Years' Progress of the United States] A view of Wall Street in 1867, when things were presumably simpler](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wall_street_1867.jpg)
It is always an assumption on Wall Street that it is not the individuals that lose money; it’s the system. You can fail big time, but you can also succeed big time.
›› IHT explains the way Wall Street operates
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