Human Machine
I think I should go a little harder tomorrow morning……..
Short China And Go Long Chinese Corruption
In June, his blog post about the financial repression of the Chinese banking system had New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warning about a lurking time bomb as savers pull their money from the banking system. “The trade over the past two years has been to be short China and go long…
DetailsA Geologic Timescale For Creationists
From Science-Based Life Creationism, or the set of beliefs claiming that the universe, Earth, and all of its inhabitants were created by a deity less than 10,000 years ago (the “young earth” variety), is scientifically untenable. We have no evidence to suggest that the Earth is so young, or that organisms have persisted in their…
DetailsSo They Got It Wrong Again…..
I got bounced this article by Michael Pascoe for comment. To save you reading it the gist is this. People who have been making predictions about the death of China seemed to have cocked it up. I am not certain what we are surprised about, the fact that people making predictions cock it up or…
DetailsNice Work If You Can Get It
It’s good to be a successful alternative investments manager, as demonstrated by the generous sprinkling of their names in this year’s Forbes 400 ranking of the richest Americans. But it may be even better to be a retired (or semi-retired) alternative investments manager. The top two hedge-fund names on Forbes’ annual list have both stopped…
DetailsIts Friday
Apparently this is how a brawl at the baseball in Korea goes…..can someone tell me WTF is going on….
DetailsAre CEO’s Worth It…Apparently Not
I cited a piece on CEO pay here. This piece lead me to look at what local CEO’s are paid and conveniently the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors produced the table below. I reordered the data a little to simply show their 2011 Realised Pay to which I added the one and five year…
DetailsThe World Of Hedge Funds
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