RIP Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 remains my favourite view of a dystopian future. This is Bradbury’s last column.
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Neat graphic from Bloomberg on the relative value that CEO’s bring to financial organisations. It pretty much tracks a study I read in the 1980’s which stated quite bluntly that the worst performing companies have the highest paid executives.
Hedge Fund Wizards
I mentioned the other day that I had started reading Hedge Fund Wizards and I have to admit it is a little flat. Whislt, I am only part way through I have noticed a few things. Firstly, Schwager seems to have fallen into the hedge fund myth. The forward to the book gives the impression…
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Jack Schwager Interview
Jack Schwager is interviewed by Micheal Martin about his new book Hedge Fund Wizards.
This Country Is Stuffed
If you have ever wondered why this country is stuffed consider this little incident from the weekend. Yesterday was the mid point meeting of our Mentor Program, during the lunch break LB and I are busy doing stuff in the room and dont have time to go down to the restaurant for lunch. To fix…
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More from Matt Taibbi the best finance journalist around at present It’s by now been well-established that the S.E.C.’s performance in policing Wall Street before, after, and during the crash has been comically inept. It would be putting it generously to say that the top cop on the financial services beat has demonstrated particular incompetence…
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