Drunken Speculation Annual 2014

10 December 2014 by Liam

This could be Drunken Speculation’s last post. Or not. I don’t know yet. That’s an awkward way to start the last post of this year at least. Let’s try that again: Regular readers will have noticed a drop off in the quantity of new content and those with a particularly keen-eye will note that ammo hasn’t contributed anything lately. We’ve gone our separate ways and this is not the appropriate forum for discussing the details but I’d be lying if […]

Categories: Drunken Speculation • Tags: beer, beer blogging, blogging, drunken speculation

Blame The People Who Caused It

3 February 2013 by Liam

Ever since the Global Financial Crisis hit simultaneous to my own personal debt problems, I’ve been interested in business, finance and how money works. Macrobusiness has be an excellent source for my fiscal education and last week, they linked to a reprehensible article entitled Prosecuting the financial crisis: Just who should we be blaming anyway? By my reading, the author’s thesis is that as the buyers of the mortgage backed securities, the collapsing value of which triggered the sub-prime mortgage […]

Categories: (non-beer) Drunken Speculation • Tags: bankers, drunken speculation, fraud, global financial crisis, great recession, money, wall st

5 Top Brews from 2012

14 January 2013 by Liam

Disclaimer: Strictly speaking, as I wrote this while sober, this isn’t drunken speculation. I am, however, very tired and hungry, which is a kind of drunk. One of my very mild superpowers, aside from having a phenomenal tear film, is that regardless of how off course a night goes, I can usually remember, to within a standard drink or two, how many drinks I had the night before. However, when it comes to choose five of the best beers of […]

Categories: Drunken Speculation • Tags: best beers, craft beer, drunken speculation, hottest 100, local taphouse