Today's note :

It shouldn't but it came as a surprise. Having nothing better to do for a few minutes, I read some articles about the SocGen trader court case as the trial goes on for now a few days. Some teachers it seems showed up today in court to deliver their views... what a strange legal system! I dared asking when the story broke, what was doing Kerviel in a criminal court as no laws were infringed as far as it was possible to understand the case and why was the state losing time going after a guy the probe had been unable to prove he had run a scheme designed to make money for himself stealing the profits he was expecting from the so called "hidden trades", not to mention how extraordinary it may be to find a bank engaged in several tenths of billions of unaware trades...?

Recently, a french lady politician tried to be funny when she compared Sarky speaking of deficits to Bernie 150 years teaching accounting, I laughed but she didn't get much success, a culture thing I guess, not that Sarky is any worse than his predecessors but altogether the lady was right, not about the actuel president but yes Bernie has some expertise that could be used to run the french pension system, afterall, it is by far the biggest ponzi scheme ever, still running after almost six decades..? Am I wrong?