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Lunch with the FT: Michael O’Leary (Ryanair CEO)(ft.com)
1 points by jakarta 17y ago|0 comments
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Never Rest: No business can be termed successful(steaknshake.com)
1 points by jakarta 17y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 17y ago
It is my understanding that The Guardian is a highly regarded newspaper in the UK. according to Wikipedia: Awards Received The Guardian has been awarded the National Newspaper of the Year in 1999 and 2006 by the British Press Awards, as wel
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Drug money saved banks in global crisis(guardian.co.uk)
29 points by jakarta 17y ago|9 comments
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by jakarta 17y ago
how he did it: -equity infusion of $9M -tax payment extensions from the British gov -cutting corporate staff by 35% -renegotiating rental contracts with the Blackstone Group. -Cutting costs at restaurants (no flowers, using cheaper cuts of
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How Gordon Ramsay saved his Restaurant Empire(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jakarta 17y ago|1 comments
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Barclays' Bob Diamond: why no bank is too big to fail(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by jakarta 17y ago|0 comments
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Google wants to sell books to Kindle too(reuters.com)
4 points by jakarta 17y ago|0 comments
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When AAPL was Undervalued(tariq-vikmg.posterous.com)
1 points by jakarta 17y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 17y ago
For business books, there is definitely a pirate community. I've noticed it specifically with anything related to investing.
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Jared Diamond: Will Big Business Save the Earth? (nytimes.com)
5 points by jakarta 17y ago|0 comments
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Science is dead(finemrespice.com)
25 points by jakarta 17y ago|38 comments
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Charter Schools: Scholarly Investments(nytimes.com)
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by jakarta 17y ago
it comes down to your economic philosophy. a keynesian will say that if you need to stimulate the economy, government spending will help get us out of crises. the problem that arises with a collateralizing program, like the gold standard is
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by jakarta 17y ago
I think the article serves as a call for urgency for the approaching inflation. One of Grant's biggest followers is Seth Klarman. Klarman runs the Baupost Group, which is a hedge fund comprised mostly of endowment fund money. His fund is us
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Building Blackwater: Erik Prince(vanityfair.com)
2 points by jakarta 17y ago|2 comments
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The $700 billion man(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by jakarta 17y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 17y ago
I call bullshit. He says he is 24 and at a well known quant fund. I know a few people who work at some of these places and at 24 you simply would not get the risk allocation to be making 8 figures. On the other hand, if he was managing capi
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by jakarta 17y ago
"I ran some cross-market analyses of stocks in 2006 when I was working at a financial software startup. I found that basically everything was overvalued: there were no values to be had in the stock market at that time." I guess you weren't
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by jakarta 17y ago
It's pretty well documented that value investing in general will beat the market over the long term. See: The Super Investors of Graham and Doddsville http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superinvestors_of_Graham-an... How the Small Investor
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by jakarta 17y ago
Interestingly enough, Goldman Sachs is reporting that quant strategies may be becoming overcrowded, yielding negligible returns: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealE... I do believe there is some truth to this, a c
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by jakarta 17y ago
so says the guy with heavy investments in ethanol.
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John Arnold: the second-youngest self-made multibillionaire in the U.S.(money.cnn.com)
4 points by jakarta 17y ago|0 comments
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Japanese Anime Studios Feel Pressure From Unhappy Artists and Outsourcing (online.wsj.com)
21 points by jakarta 17y ago|16 comments
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Growing a Business in a Startup Style & Beyond(dispatch.com)
1 points by jakarta 17y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 17y ago
Strand Books in NYC I think offers a model that is ideal for bookstores. They feature a large used selection that is often price competitive or sometimes even cheaper than Amazon's used selection. Especially when you take into account the f
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Twitter Sales Top $4 Million; Ad Business Planned (bloomberg.com)
2 points by jakarta 17y ago|0 comments
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Bloomberg + Vanity Fair Financial Crisis Live Webcast(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jakarta 17y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 17y ago
You would be pretty surprised. The loan books on most tiny banks are mostly comprised of single family mortgages.
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by jakarta 17y ago
Just be cautious of Tom Brown (the owner of that site). The guy is basically a huge gambler/perma-bull on banks. A lot of his insights were proven to be wrong during the crisis.

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