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by bwd2 17y ago
A publication generally has a page limit I'm sorry, but this statement doesn't make any sense in the digital era. I can download closing prices for nearly every traded US stock over its entire existence in spreadsheet format from Yahoo f
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by bwd2 17y ago
I started Adderall recently, and it does an excellent job of helping me to focus.
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by bwd2 17y ago
To expand on this a bit more for the uninitiated, preferred shares are a more sophisticated version of what he's talking about. They basically work like debt that doesn't blow up the company if you can't make your payments. They tend to b
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by bwd2 17y ago
Yeah, that's a good idea, let's penalize capital formation even more while we're trying to recover from an economic downturn. If you want to level the playing field between debt and equity financing for business, maybe you should make divi
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by bwd2 17y ago
Back in my student days long ago, a friend of mine who was working on a very difficult assignment hatched a plan to include a SIGSEGV handler that would print "NFS server not responding, still trying..." for use on the day when we had to de
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by bwd2 17y ago
Exactly what evidence do you use to characterize the loan as predatory? The other story I've read on this (in the Times as well if I recall correctly) characterized Leibovitz as being bad at managing her finances. If you pledge property a
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by bwd2 17y ago
One of the comments on the article suggests applying for a patent on the "patent troll" business model and then suing these guys. Fans of recursion will notice that you could then apply for a patent on the "patent on the 'patent troll'" bu
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by bwd2 17y ago
The U.S. would never allow this to happen because then U.S. citizens would be able to invest in equities in someplace like Hong Kong and pay much lower taxes. It would be very nice if this happened.
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by bwd2 17y ago
I can't answer for the author of the parent, but for my part I combine my own personal experiences dealing directly with employees of government agencies with the stories I hear from a friend of mine who works for a consulting firm and ofte
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So What’s a Health Insurance Co-op, Anyway? - Prescriptions Blog(prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by bwd2 17y ago|0 comments
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by bwd2 17y ago
Why would you bother to do this if you are a non-EU provider?
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by bwd2 17y ago
I kind of ran out of steam on the paragraph where he claims that Niederhoffer's strategy is better than Taleb's while failing to mention that Niederhoffer has blown up two separate funds during periods of market instability (1997 and 2007).
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by bwd2 17y ago
Yeah, but the problem is that the rest of the world is not currently blown to smithereens and in need of American labor and capital to rebuild it the way it was in 1945 (not to mention deeply indebted to the United States as well). The tro
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by bwd2 17y ago
Much of the information in this video is incorrect and makes the same mistakes that the general media makes when trying to explain high frequency trading. In particular, it fails to mention the fact that pre-routing exposure to local excha
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by bwd2 17y ago
The title is misleading, this article is actually an examination of economic distortions in the US healthcare industry, and a quite good one at that.
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by bwd2 17y ago
I think he meant that they can't afford to sell them. The financial condition of an issuer dictates the yield (i.e. interest rate) that investors will require to buy the bonds. California's condition is so poor that the required yield wou
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by bwd2 17y ago
There might be certain areas of the economy where this is the case but I haven't seen anything like that since I've been here. I work for a startup financial firm and we have no "local" partners I'm aware of. The regulatory requirements a
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by bwd2 17y ago
I've been working in Hong Kong for almost 6 months, and there definitely seems to be opportunity here. There is a lot more optimism than I've been seeing in the states when I go back, and software is perceived as an area in which the skill
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SEC to Ban Flash Trades of U.S. Stocks, Schumer Says (Update3) - Bloomberg.com(bloomberg.com)
3 points by bwd2 17y ago|0 comments