When financial blogging gets funny (and erudite)

[drwex]

Felix Salmon has a hilarious (if long) piece up excoriating the Second Circuit for its abominable performance in Elliott vs Argentina. He calls them "poltroons", a word I haven't heard used in a blog approximately ever, and calls Argentina "contumacious" - both accurate descriptives.

He also calls them ignoble and a lot of other funny erudite things. Worth the read: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/09/10/annals-of-ignoble-cowardice-second-circuit-edition/

Comments

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

Neat. Also, since I have seen it in type about that often, from phonetics I thought it was 'paltroon'. So, "yay, correction"

[drwex]

I think I picked it up from Shakespeare. My memory says Henry V but the Internets refuse to confirm or deny.

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

Clearly something is wrong, because given people being right on the interwebs, you should be able to find both confirmation and denial aplenty... :-P

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Hah!

This whole saga has been a hoot to watch from afar--but then, I didn't lend Argentina any money.