In this final part of the series, we will go through the actual accusation to Barclays in 2012. You can go back to Part I by clicking here; and back to Part II by clicking here. …

Last week, Bobby Diamond (Barclay’s CEO 2011–2012) was in the dock. The defendant claimed he was unaware of traders’ behavior, although former trader Doug Keenan holds Bobby did know. You can check Part I by clicking here. This is part II of the series and we will review the evidence…

“It goes to the culture and the structure of banks: the excessive compensation, the shoddy treatment of customers, the deceitful manipulation of a key interest rate, and today, news of yet another mis-selling scandal.” — Mervyn King, former Bank of England governor Breaking: the World’s most important number is not…

In this brief blog entry, I share a quick, most likely unoriginal algorithm to quickly skim through a PDF. Just for the sake of fun, I will first share the motivation for it. Please skip to the section “The Word Cloud Algorithm” if you are in a rush. …

Football is the ballet of the masses — Dimitri Shostakovich “Imagine it’s Saturday at 7.00PM and you will tune the Tigres match. They are playing Chivas today. You don’t care about the result because this is THE game.” This is how my brother described virtually every Saturday of my teens…

Estamos a un año de las elecciones intermedias. Según Consulta Mitofsky, en su AMLO Tracking Poll, en marzo de 2020 por ahí del 50% de los mexicanos aprueban la gestión del presidente (o sea que el otro 50% no lo aprueba). La elección intermedia va a ser un buen ejercicio…

I must admit that I enjoy when a flight is delayed because that grants me time to spare. Time to read, to revisit an issue that you find interesting, or to write Medium stories like this one. In part I — written between December 22 and 23, 2019, while flying…

Flying to Monterrey, Mexico is an ever-worsening trip from Mexico City, as the airport’s saturation problem grows. On top of that, I decided to fly home on Sunday, December 22! After a 4-hour wait, I had a terrible time running from gate 7 to gate 28 because [insert a typical…

En una comunidad de 20 habitantes, 10 de ellos se dedicaba a cultivar la comida que todos comían y los otros 10 se dedicaban a preparar esa comida. Todos ganaban el mismo sueldo, $5 pesos diarios, y podían cobrarlo en un cajero automático (como los cajeros de banco que uno…