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Low testosterone linked with financial risk-taking .

CONJURE up an image of a financial risk-taker, and you’ll probably picture an aggressive Wall Street trader, testosterone surging as he closes the deal. But new research suggests that people with low levels of the male sex hormone are also likely to take financial risks. Previous studies have linked high levels of testosterone to certain…

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Oh crap………

It had to happen we now have a social media analyst This news is as depressing as the graphic below that shows that Harvard MBA’s are now moving back into Wall St.  

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Worth the risk?

This is a chart of the Nikkei ETF – I have chosen the US listed version over the local one simply because of the higher volume, greater liquidity and therefore better price discovery. I don’t find the panic selling of the past week very interesting, what I find interesting is that these sellers didn’t seem…

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Worth the risk?

This is a chart of the Nikkei ETF – I have chosen the US listed version over the local one simply because of the higher volume, greater liquidity and therefore better price discovery. I don’t find the panic selling of the past week very interesting, what I find interesting is that these sellers didn’t seem…

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A Cluster of Quakes

Are huge quakes linked or is this just another demonstration of clustering that humans have difficulty understanding. From New Scientist – “What is clear is that for the 6.2 years since 2004, there have been more great earthquakes around the world than in any 6.2-year period throughout the 110-year history of seismic recordings.” -Thorne Lay…

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Interesting

This is an interesting article from Wired the science mag. Although looking at the only graphic in the article I am not certain their metric is doing what the article claims that it is capable of doing. If you look at the graphic it began its move towards zero (the crash zone) in 2003 and the market…

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Children Full of Life

With recent events in Japan I thought it might be more appropriate to post something more life affriming from the land of the rising sun. This link goes to a site by Garr Reynolds a marketing and presentation guru living in Japan. Reynolds claim to fame is that he is one of the architects of the…

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Children Full of Life

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With recent events in Japan I thought it might be more appropriate to post something more life affriming from the land of the rising sun. This link goes to a site by Garr Reynolds a marketing and presentation guru living in Japan. Reynolds claim to fame is that he is one of the architects of…

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Interesting

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This is an interesting article from Wired the science mag. Although looking at the only graphic in the article I am not certain their metric is doing what the article claims that it is capable of doing. If you look at the graphic it began its move towards zero (the crash zone) in 2003 and…

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Aussie

Despite the headlines screaming that the days of parity are over the Aussie doesnt seem that keen to break out of the current congestion.

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