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by jakarta 16y ago
The two biggest things you can learn from Soros, IMO: George Soros is a genius. But he is not a genius for searching and finding the trades. He is not sitting around and doing calculations or running analyses with fancy algorithms. Instead,
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by jakarta 16y ago
No, you are just borrowing a lot of the money that already exists and then you are using your large volume and sell order to put downward pressure on the security's price.
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At the time, Germany and England had economies that were quite different. Germany had to still deal with the effects of their reunification, England had high levels of inflation (much higher than Germany's) and a high deficit. Usually when
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What Our Intelligence Agencies Could Learn from Silicon Valley(online.wsj.com)
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If you spend $100M buying back stock at the top of the market and then the next year, the bubble pops and your stock is down 50% was that really good capital allocation? For every dollar you spent, you have effectively lost 50 cents. Sears
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Easy Money, Hard Truths(nytimes.com)
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Incorrect. If your stock is overvalued, a buyback is an inefficient and destructive method for getting money back into shareholders hands. You would be better off giving a special dividend instead.
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You don't need to pay dividends to increase shareholder value. It just depends on how good management is with allocating capital. Buybacks can work just as well if you are buying back at the right price. A lot of management teams are bad at
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by jakarta 16y ago
the difference implies that the market is assigning a higher multiple to AAPL presumably on the basis of growth. Whether that is warranted or not, I do not know. I actually think it is more useful to look at these companies from a yield per
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Mike Maples Outperforms Venture Firms That Rejected Him(preview.bloomberg.com)
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Investors usually use technical or fundamental analysis. Some use both, but I would say it is not very common. Technical guys are usually trading, they are looking at price charts and trying to gauge supply/demand and figure out how prices
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I've found that for new blogs, you are better off concentrating your efforts on Amazon referral links than ads.
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Make this but target it towards value investors (because they read a tremendous amount-- multidisciplinary stuff, newspapers, SEC filings, etc) and you will probably be able to attract a pretty good core following. Then you can gradually ex
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Awesome job -- I think this will be a great service when you add photo privacy checks. Among my friends, that is usually their biggest concern.
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Web Audio: SoundManager 2 + HTML5(isflashdeadyet.com)
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Futurama of Physics with David X. Cohen(aps.org)
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Bootstrapping: Putting Customers in Charge of Design(nytimes.com)
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He has a pretty proven track record with building/fostering a massive online community (and not an ordinary one at that). So I think he'd be a jockey worth betting on.
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I dont think .org will be so bad here. I think seeing the words appointment+reminder will be enough for them. Plus they are going to see the description which will likely have good copy.
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I have a number of friends who started funds straight out of college. In almost all of these cases, these friends had been able to get in touch with wealthier, more established fund managers early on via the internet and have gotten their h
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Notes from Charlie Munger's latest Q&A (just a couple weeks ago): http://www.scribd.com/documents/31051057/2010-Wesco-Annual-M...
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If you start thinking about investments by incorporating decision trees, I think you will start inverting and questioning the potential investment when it comes down to whether or not you should act. This is really helpful to get yourself i
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Looking across different disciplines for mental models can be extremely useful when identifying potential investments. It might be something that is just intuitive to you, but it is not for most people -- especially business students. A goo
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I don't see why the banks' trading desks would want to make the bond market less opaque, their flow trading desks benefit from it.
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At the same time though, their products so good that it wasn't really necessary for them to hire some stellar biz dev/sales whiz, they were instead able to use these methods to attract users. I don't think these methods would work as well i
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It seems like most of these social gaming companies are taking steps towards having games be less reliant on Facebook as a platform. Zynga is developing their own games site and HeyZap seems to be creating a pipeline of sorts b/w publishers
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This is awesome. I've been hoping to find a curated bio/med related news site. This looks like it is just that. I would echo the other commenters and suggest toning down on the use of bold type.
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I think Buffett was asked about paper trading once... he compared it to 'reading about sex' -- not even close to the real thing.
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I liked how Charlie Munger said at the meeting "just because what Goldman did was legal doesn't make it ethical."
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Warren Buffett's Advice for Entrepreneurs (streetcapitalist.com)
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