 | By 10am it emerged that Mr Perkins had single-handedly moved the global price of oil to an eight-month high during a “drunken blackout”. Prices leapt by more than $1.50 a barrel in under half an hour at around 2am – the kind of sharp swing caused by events of geo-political significance. Ten times the usual volume of futures contracts changed hands in just one hour. |
✖ Via Telegraph.co.uk: “How a broker spent $520m in a drunken stupor and moved the global oil price” by Rowena Mason, June 30th, 2010 |
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 | I have a feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s like killing yourself, and then you’re reborn. I guess I’ve lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives by now. |
✖ Via a little damaged / Charles Bukowski |
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