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Can Jeremy Grantham Profit from Ecological Mayhem?(nytimes.com)
2 points by jakarta 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Good Podcasts?
27 points by jakarta 15y ago|20 comments
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by jakarta 15y ago
To me, this underscores one of the key risks to having an AirBnB room for rent. I think if you are going to do it, you really have to be careful. 1. You should probably be someone that works from home / is home often. At least then you can
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by jakarta 15y ago
The mom and her family should have been investing in side income streams along the way. My grandfather came over to America, worked in a box factory. At nights he took courses in accounting. When his kids were old enough he had them working
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by jakarta 15y ago
At my work, we like to invest in companies that we think would be attractive LBO Candidates... Blackboard really fits the profile. 1. Entrenched business model At my school we used Blackboard and we had about 50,000 students. Getting everyo
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by jakarta 15y ago
Peter Thiel is largely regarded as a failure of a hedge fund manager. For a while he had a good record but he did the decoupling/long oil trade which blew up in 2008. His fund had a bunch of redemptions and is now mostly his own money.
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by jakarta 15y ago
Centuries of financial crises and speculative contagions seem to be enough evidence for me. If majority of market participants were value investors you simply would not have bubbles to the degree that we have seen historically. Value invest
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by jakarta 15y ago
It might not be everyone, but I can say for certain that most market participants are NOT value investors.
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Big Banks target Paypal(online.wsj.com)
5 points by jakarta 15y ago|4 comments
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by jakarta 15y ago
Why's it silly? He's buying a commodity business (thats what VOIP is) for 32x earnings. There's a reason M&A is often referred to as a winner's curse -- because winning the bidding typically means overpaying. The synergies execs often t
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by jakarta 15y ago
From the estimates I have seen, Skype generates $250mm in EBIT per year. That would mean that Microsoft is paying 28x earnings. If we want to approximate EBIT as free cash flows (not the same, but this is back of the envelope) and assume a
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Indian Students interview Warren Buffett(ndtv.com)
1 points by jakarta 15y ago|0 comments
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Wake Up The Age Of Cheap Natural Resources Is Over(businessinsider.com)
2 points by jakarta 15y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 15y ago
I'm just curious - why do you need one that's higher quality? You know what's exactly on it and I mean it's a white board drawing... you could go out and buy your own white board and some markers and make the exact same diagram yourself!
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by jakarta 16y ago
Many top schools have a policy which allows students who drop out to come back and finish up their degree if they want. So it is not a risky decision.
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by jakarta 16y ago
Original content is a natural evolution for Netflix. Look at most of the pay-tv channels (HBO, Showtime, now Starz). All of them started as just ways to monetize existing content but realized that original content could make them more money
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by jakarta 16y ago
Yeah, if you read "The Pixar Touch" you get a good picture of what Jobs hoped to achieve with Pixar (focusing on selling the hardware to consumers). His main contribution was money. I think it was only after Toy Story did he truly "get" how
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by jakarta 16y ago
I thought this was a great quote: “You have got to be willing to be poor [as an entrepreneur],” he says. “There was a time when I was living out of a single suitcase. I had a rule that I wouldn’t stay on one person’s couch for more than two
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by jakarta 16y ago
If you want to quibble about his use of the "6 times" figure, go ahead. The fact remains that we live much better today than in 1930, when Buffett was born (during the Great Depression).
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by jakarta 16y ago
My favorite quote: "The Flat Earth Society probably views a ship’s circling of the globe as an annoying, but inconsequential, anomaly"
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by jakarta 16y ago
You honestly have to ask this question? In the 1950s a significant percentage of our population was without civil rights. Beyond that: Life expectancy at birth: 69.9 to 77.9 (we live longer) Infant mortality: 26.0 to 6.7 (less of us are dea
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by jakarta 16y ago
I don't think you should take much stock in Japanese business culture. While there are some great aspects 'toyota way'/continuous improvement... There's also a lot of drawbacks. The management by consensus, hammering the nail that sticks ou
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by jakarta 16y ago
Not to be offensive, but I don't think these other measures are very insightful. Measures like EV and assets dont really tell you much because they are easy to get skewed by leverage. The cash measure isn't great either because it's dominat
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Mubarak and Me(cnas.org)
1 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
An MBA is what you make of it. For some people, seeking to transition between industries, an MBA can be very helpful. If you are working as a marketing person for General Mills and then decide that you want to break into ibanking, an MBA is
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by jakarta 16y ago
Nobody needs to write another article about it. It has been profiled to death. He used CDS to bet on the bubble collapsing and then bought gold, bank stocks, distressed debt, and bet on mergers to play the recovery.
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by jakarta 16y ago
John Paulson is really interesting in that he really played the entire credit cycle. He shorted it and then turned long at the right time and has been profiting from the recovery. Most of the other guys who shorted the bubble got the part a
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by jakarta 16y ago
I do value investing, to learn that you really have to read a combination of theoretical (books about value investing) and practical (accounting, finance, investment valuation, excel modeling, books about different industries). After that y
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by jakarta 16y ago
Here is how I did it: So in school I majored in poli-sci but taught myself finance/accounting/investing by going to the library and reading books. When I graduated from college (about a year ago) my ultimate goal was to land a job at a hedg
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Cory Booker: The Mayor of Twitter and Blizzard Superhero (time.com)
1 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments

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