Shiller Says `Easy to Beat the Market’ Long Term
Talk is interesting – host is a pain in the arse.
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28 Killer Home Trading Desks From All Around The World
Apparently I have far too few screens and need to pull up my socks
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This Guy Got $58 Million for 15 Months of Work
Henrique de Castro was booted as COO by Marissa Mayer after she personally poached him from Google about 15 months earlier. Mayer said de Castro “was not a fit and that’s a regrettable conclusion,” but he still walked with $58 million in salary, bonuses and stock. Source – Time I could be twice as incompetent…
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Don’t Be A Member Of The Hedge Fund Club
I believe it was the American writer HL Menken who once said you will never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. A statement that is probably a bit harsh on the Yanks but one that can definitely be applied to those who invest in hedge funds. 2013 was another great year for…
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Careful Who You Let Into Your Head
I try to maintain fairly diversified reading habits. I am a believer that some of the best books about trading never mention trading but rather deal with people and their fallibilities and their successes. I have just finished The Dirt – a biography of 1980’s hair metal band Motley Crue. The back cover of the…
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NEW AGE BULLSHIT GENERATOR
This is brilliant and perfect for trolling something like Facebook simply click the Reionize electrons button to be served a fresh dose of New Age Bullshit.
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ARE SPECULATIVE BUBBLES GOOD?
The New Yorker is getting a bit of a workout this morning – I must be bored. Are speculative bubbles good for the economy? With much of the developed world still suffering the after-effects of the great housing and credit bubble, it might sound like a trick question. On Friday, however, at the annual conference…
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