Brown Motion

Curious title because it is.  Pelham refers to none other than one of my fave authors P.G. Wodehouse.  That his career took off has something to do with an officer that gave him his first jobs at the HSBC or Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.  In part because his pop (PG's not the officer's) who was a HK magistrate pulled some proverbial strings (may be they were on his robe or his hat that he wore when on the job). The very bank at the heart of a recent price fixing/financial mumbo jumbo scandal as reported by a newspaper called the Guardian (feel good newspaper run by the Brits no less).  I researched this interesting tale further and came upon published propaganda material from HSBC that goes as follows - Wodehouse’s career with the bank was short-lived and far from glittering; and yet memorable for all concerned. In his first year he was late for work on 20 days (excluding ‘foggy mornings’, which did not count) - a number only exceeded by two o...