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Interview With Ebix CEO Robin Raina(fool.com)
1 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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Ikea reveals Earnings for First Time(businessweek.com)
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by jakarta 16y ago
PDF of the actual report: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WSJ-flashre...
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SEC, CFTC Report Says Algorithm Trade Set Off May 6 'Flash Crash'(online.wsj.com)
17 points by jakarta 16y ago|13 comments
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Calls him an asshole, makes him a billionaire(rogerebert.suntimes.com)
2 points by jakarta 16y ago|1 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
For these sites, when I refer to ideas I mean investment ideas. These are straight up write ups on why you should invest in Company X or Y. VIC recently added a discussion forum which leads to a bit of discussion on things that are maybe mo
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by jakarta 16y ago
Most of the time people post ideas after they've invested in them. So if the idea is for stock X and you believe it is worth $20 but it only trades at $10, having your argument get sent out to market participants who might have more capital
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by jakarta 16y ago
On sites like VIC, you can grab a guest account where you see ideas that are 45 days old. SumZero also has their weekly idea e-mail which Conor mentioned above. From there, I think you can get a really good understanding of how to lay out y
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by jakarta 16y ago
It depends on how much back office work you want to do yourself. A lot of young fund managers get enamored by the prospect of being able to spend all their time looking for investments that they forget about the administrative work require
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by jakarta 16y ago
The biggest difference between VIC and SZ is that VIC requires members to stay anonymous whereas SZ posts your full name and where you work whenever you post an idea. You can often figure out the identity of a VIC member because you'll see
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by jakarta 16y ago
If you have any questions feel free to ask them here and I'll try to answer to the best of my abilities.
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by jakarta 16y ago
I think the internet is helping change how hedge funds are started and people are hired, possibly for the better. I'll give a couple observations: 1. It's becoming easier to find people with good track records. No, I am not talking about Ka
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by jakarta 16y ago
this is probably the most likely culprit. think about it for high paying professions such as top law firm work, or an investment bank -- getting ahead to make partner means working tons of hours which is not a viable option if you have a ki
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by jakarta 16y ago
There are some negatives to Green Dot's business model. Here are a few things that were pointed out to me last week: -Barriers to entry are pretty low. Walmart has already lowered fees from $9 to $5 for a new card and from $5 to $3 for mont
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Driving Detroit Out of Its Ditch(online.wsj.com)
1 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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Dark Patterns: User Interfaces Designed to Trick People (slideshare.net)
117 points by jakarta 16y ago|14 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
I disagree. Take the reporting on Toxie, their toxic asset. I think what they did was a good idea, I have followed their reporting on it for a while now. First they presented how one actually acquires these assets (they started with a trad
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Trent Reznor releases soundtrack to 'The Social Network'(nullco.com)
9 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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Vernon Hill Is The Best Damn Banker Alive (Just Ask Him) (finance.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
Exactly, which he says is stupid. That's why Buffett and Gates have been pushing so hard to get other billionaires to pledge to donate as much as them. Larry Ellison is one of the more recent tech execs to take the pledge.
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by jakarta 16y ago
"And what did he do with these fabulous once-in-a-lifetime gifts?" He used those gifts to amass wealth which he is now in the process of mostly giving away. It goes back to Warren Buffett who claimed that he won the ovarian lottery, being b
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by jakarta 16y ago
Maybe Google should add more questions related to ethics in their rigorous interview process.
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by jakarta 16y ago
I think you should have read the linked article before criticizing the idea. They make the reasons for teaching The Wire quite clear in the article and provide a good argument.
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IBM Chief Slams H-P(online.wsj.com)
2 points by jakarta 16y ago|1 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
I wonder if the massive amounts of income he made at Goldman helped provide a safety net for launching his zero revenue startup.
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by jakarta 16y ago
But the author is a sociologist.
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by jakarta 16y ago
And you are arguing as if the Greek government is entitled to no taxes. Greece provides its citizens with loads of social services. Someone/something has to pay for that. In the other EU countries, you know - the ones without sovereign debt
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by jakarta 16y ago
Greece has a debt crisis. The state borrowed some €216 billion and now cannot pay it. This isn't just some slow down caused by the business cycle that can be fixed by reducing taxes. Tax evasion costs the Greek government an estimated $20B
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by jakarta 16y ago
Tax evasion hurts when a government owes tons of money that it cannot pay back with the current tax revenue coming in.
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Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds (Michael Lewis)(vanityfair.com)
16 points by jakarta 16y ago|1 comments

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