June 2012
21 posts
May 2012
44 posts
“The great irony is that the concept Walson initiated has evolved into the $100...”
– Aereo’s Dramatic Idea Is Nothing New in TV | Media - Advertising Age
A Richer Life by Seeing the Glass Half Full →
How to define optimism, put it into practice and enjoy its benefits.
“top bank executives and senior management should be paid in bonds as well as...”
– The Simplicity Solution - NYTimes.com
“The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me....”
– George Will Doesn’t Want Romney Anywhere Near Donald Trump - Politics - The Atlantic Wire
“From 2009-11 just 22.4% of the Rays opponents ground balls became hits, compared...”
– Baseball In The Midst Of A Defensive Shift Revolution - Business Insider
“Significantly, the increased biking has affected the city’s economy, as Bogotá...”
– This Is How We Ride - NYTimes.com
“So now you can begin to see the irony of all this…
Most of the rules in...”
– Facebook IPO Disclosure Scandal - Business Insider
“This retro thinking and hateful speech pops up in surprising places —-...”
– Jesse Kornbluth’s “Head Butler” on Robert Kennedy: The Gross National Product (March 18, 1968) | Head Butler
“the Republicans were more inclined to blame the Dodd-Frank law itself —...”
– Senators put federal regulators, not JPMorgan, on the hot seat - The Washington Post
“Los Angeles… He walks again by night…”
– The Further Adventures Of Nick Danger by Firesign Theatre
“Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager: It never stood a shot. If there was any enthusiasm...”
– EXCLUSIVE Q&A: A Hedge Fund Manager Who Bet $100 Million On The Facebook IPO Just Called And Boy Is He Furious - Business Insider
“Trading in Facebook shares accounted for more than 50% of the volume in...”
– Private markets lose their Facebook cash cow - InvestmentNews
“Since women weren’t allowed to attend the actual rally, more than 15,000 of them...”
– 60,000 Orthodox Jews Protest Internet - The Daily Beast
“Public companies aren’t going to disappear, but we are witnessing a significant...”
– Facebook’s I.P.O. and Dual-Class Share Structures : The New Yorker
“Whereas the C.E.O.s of most public companies have to spend time kowtowing to...”
– Facebook’s I.P.O. and Dual-Class Share Structures : The New Yorker
“I have a theory of crisis that you must employ crisis to create additional...”
– A Russian Facebook Bet Pays Off Big - NYTimes.com
“But MF Global is different. This is not complicated at all. This is just...”
– Jon Corzine Is the Original George Zimmerman | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
“Investors are afraid to contest GP terms for fear of “rocking the boat” with...”
– The Kauffman Foundation: “We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us”
http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/vc-enemy-is-us-report.pdf
“The most significant misalignment occurs because LPs don’t pay VCs to do what...”
– The Kauffman Foundation: “We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us”
http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/vc-enemy-is-us-report.pdf
“Either Dimon misled the public about the gravity of the festering trades during...”
– Opinion Dimon in the rough: What bank’s boss doesn’t know is plain scary - InvestmentNews
“People are using the Web to do things in the real world, and that’s a big change...”
– Bing revamps to better reflect why people search [with demo video]
““I like that crazy, freewheeling, shoot-from-the-hip style. I think...”
– JPMorgan Loses $2 Billion | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source | American Voices
“When people exercise aerobically, their bodies can actually make drugs —...”
– ‘Wired To Run’: Runner’s High May Have Been Evolutionary Advantage : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
“Even one Blankfein supporter, who lauds the C.E.O.’s work ethic, decency, and...”
– Has Goldman Sachs’s Succession Plan Changed After Greg Smith Scrutiny? | Business | Vanity Fair
“Though propagandists portrayed the torch relay as ancient tradition stretching...”
– The Nazi Origins of the Olympic Flame Relay - Max Fisher - International - The Atlantic
“Why don’t I believe in God? No, no no, why do YOU believe in God? Surely the...”
– A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist - Speakeasy - WSJ
“The message of this finding, she continues, is that “improvements in cognition”...”
– Phys Ed: How Muscle Workouts May Boost Brainpower - NYTimes.com
“The significant part of the Peer39 acquisition was that the price was revealed...”
– Why Was The Peer39 Acquisition Price Revealed By DG? – @Venture Crush NY Event
“When his aunt returns she says, “Okay smarty, you’ve had your party...”
– Maurice Sendak: On Life, Death And Children’s Lit : NPR
“This reinforces the point about where our first line of defense should properly...”
– Second al Qaeda Underwear Bomber Thwarted By CIA - The Daily Beast
Andrew Lo: Adaptive Market Hypothesis - Business... →
More interesting info. from Lo…
The AMH can explain not only departures from the EMH and behavioral regularities, but also how markets shift from the wisdom of crowds to the madness of mobs and back again.
Andrew Lo: Adaptive Market Hypothesis - Business... →
This is fascinating:
Lo posits investors’ flight to safety as a manifestation of fight-or-flight “This process of divestment puts downward pressure on equity prices and upward pressure on the prices of safer assets, causing the normally positive association between risk and reward to be temporarily violated.”
“During that era, traders believed the following about the relationship between...”
– Andrew Lo: Adaptive Market Hypothesis - Business Insider
“While there have been times of less polarization among political elites, Nyhan...”
– The Death Of Facts In An Age Of ‘Truthiness’ : NPR
“‘Oh, Mr. Sendak. I wish I were in touch with my childhood self, like...”
– ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ Author Maurice Sendak Dead at 83 - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire
“As they strode to the hotel, his supporters began chanting ‘Greece belongs...”
– Greek elections 2012: Neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn want to force immigrants into work camps | Mail Online
“Buffett put it best when he said he would always pick an investment strategy...”
– 11 Brilliant Investment Insights From Legendary Investor Barton Biggs - Business Insider
“Ben began one letter to Jesse Jackson, “You are one mean dude,” then proceeded...”
– Searching the Personal Archives of Washington ‘Post’ Editor Ben Bradlee for More Evidence — New York Magazine
“I Fracking Miss Battlestar”
– U.S. to Set Fracking Rules on Federal Land - WSJ.com
And Why Is This Her Decision (Vs. AOL's)?
Ms. Huffington said Thursday that she had been approached by private-equity firms interested in buying the Huffington Post, although the overtures went nowhere. She said she had no intention of leaving. Her relationship with Mr. Armstrong is fine, and “all is good,” she said.
