Marlow’s Listener

At 2,200 pages, it will be a page turner for certain

Part I may be enough to whet your appetite for more. The prose is clear enough so that the tough going on investment bank risk management is made easier. It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

The shock of the old

The euro-zone members had promised to support the common currency with a common policy. The problem was that they were not prepared to make good on their promise.

HSBC Holdings PLC said a former employee stole data on about 24,000 accounts in its Swiss private bank that wound up in the hands of French authorities

What wound up in the hands of French authorities? Was it the bank, the accounts, the data, the employee or HSBC? Hard to tell.

From the following paragraphs, it appears that the Journal was attempting to say:

HSBC Holdings PLC said a former employee stole data on about 24,000 accounts in its Swiss private bank. The data wound up in the hands of French authorities.

Couldn’t Mecca, I asked the royals, be opened to non-Muslims during the off-season? The phrase off-season, as it turns out, is not conducive to an interfaith dialogue.

the deal would be remembered as a public acquisition ‘as monumental as the creation of the nation’s first national park, Yellowstone.