Here is my final rebuttal to Tom McClellan's taste for charting. It is a news item from today's Bloomberg about a Singapore gambling stock:

Genting Singapore Plc, the worst performing stock on the Straits Times Index this year, may extend declines should key moving averages intersect in a 'dead cross' pattern, according to DMG & Partners Securities Pte.

If that is not a self-fulfilling prophesy, what is?

Today's blog is about sex and hard liqueur. But first a bit of help with the Internet.

Yesterday I was too clever by half. I headlined my daily blog "Eurodollars and Female Viagra" and many did not receive it because it triggered spamblockers. Our webmaster sent those whose bounced emails hit him a new version headlined: “Eurodollars and Female Prescriptions.”

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