So the govt set interest rates do they?

[Bagpuss]

There was an interesting article on the news yesterday about Testosterone and the effect on Boom and Bust. A researcher from Oxbridge observed that high levels in the young barrow boy traders led to over hype in the bull times and also over sell in the bear times. He followed them over a period of months and observed that when their testoterone levels were low their results were less irratic.

His suggestion was to have a more diverse age and gender representation in the city and then the likelihood of extreem highs and lows would be reduced and therefore the boom and bust scenario. Sounds reasonable.

[KathyWoolfe]

There was an interesting article on the news yesterday about Testosterone and the effect on Boom and Bust. A researcher from Oxbridge observed that high levels in the young barrow boy traders led to over hype in the bull times and also over sell in the bear times. He followed them over a period of months and observed that when their testoterone levels were low their results were less irratic.

His suggestion was to have a more diverse age and gender representation in the city and then the likelihood of extreem highs and lows would be reduced and therefore the boom and bust scenario. Sounds reasonable.

Or just employ women.......no highs or lows.

[ratewhore]

Or just employ women.......no highs or lows.

Apart from market jitters every 28 days...

[Sockpuppet]

...and if all else fails your cab is pretty cosy presumably...

Damn Straight.

Or just employ women.......no highs or lows.

Seriously

You can't run an economy based on which logos are the pinkest and the fluffiest.

[zeitghost]

Surely this smacks of Zimbabwe and Zanu-PF interventionism. What next? Forcing shops to sell at fixed prices?
BTW, what happened to the 'independence' of the BoE and its 'ability' to set interest rates ?

You can thank the late Ted "grocer" Heath for getting rid of that, it was called RPM a.k.a. Retail Price Maintenance.

So everything cost the same, no matter where you shopped.

[zeitghost]

Or just employ women.......no highs or lows.

Or castrate all the traders... there's always a silver lining...

Apart from market jitters every 28 days...

Especially if they all sync up...