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by jakarta 16y ago
http://www.scribd.com/doc/28824145/GMO-White-Paper-China Here's a white paper with some possible red flags that point to a bubble in China.
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by jakarta 16y ago
Do you realistically expect the US, Japan, or Korea to somehow fill the gap if China suddenly drops its demand for Australian commodities? India might pick up some of the slack, but I would bet against it. Household debt / disposable income
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by jakarta 16y ago
It's pretty interesting to see how intertwined China is with Australia. If you ever want to short China, your best bet is to target Australia which already has a bit of a property bubble, mining companies that are dependent on Chinese deman
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by jakarta 16y ago
...because a handful of headlines from an old newspaper is really representative of what the depression was like.
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Samsung Shifts Strategy In Challenge To Apple(bloomberg.com)
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Modernist Cuisine: Nathan Myhrvold's $500 Cookbook (modernistcuisine.com)
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4G or Bust: The Riskiest Trade Ever?(reuters.com)
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by jakarta 16y ago
Direct link: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
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Hacker’s Arrest Offers Glimpse Into Crime in Russia (nytimes.com)
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Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's (money.cnn.com)
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The Billionaire and the Book Lover(nymag.com)
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by jakarta 16y ago
I am going to disagree with you there. When it comes to picking out frauds, you can usually tell by looking at the accounting who is playing loose and who is not. That wont give you an indication of whether or not a company is necessarily a
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by jakarta 16y ago
This is a weak article. There are plenty of ways to beat the market averages while being just one individual with a small sum of capital. A while back Buffett said that he thinks he could average 50% annually if he only had a small sum of c
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by jakarta 16y ago
Just look at the Goldman Sachs Alpha Fund as an example of a quant fund with a big firm that had terrible performance. To clarify: the size of the fund is not necessarily an indicator of whether it will be successful or not.
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I think this is indicative of a real risk we will see with large corporations right now. Many of these large cap companies have huge cash hordes and are being pressured to do something with it. The risk is that the cash will be used stupidl
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The Yogurt Chronicles(slate.com)
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by jakarta 16y ago
There are a lot of benefits in this model. If you can start getting subscribers and cash coming in you typically end up with high retention rates and low capital investment requirements. Eventually Hulu could throw off a lot of free cash fl
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Did 'Star Wars' Become A Toy Story? Producer Gary Kurtz Looks Back (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
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by jakarta 16y ago
I think libraries are actually migrating towards the trend of being social study spots. At my old school, UT Austin, one library was actually converted to be an "academic center" which really meant a building with tables, couches, and desks
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by jakarta 16y ago
34th & Madison Ave http://maps.google.com/maps?um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=new+york...
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by jakarta 16y ago
I actually prefer to work in libraries. Sometimes coffee shops are just too loud and the facilities at libraries are better. For example, the NY SIBL has Aeron chairs and free wifi! Plus there is a starbucks next door for you to buy coffee
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by jakarta 16y ago
I think printed books and bookstores more broadly will end up like vinyl record stores. They still exist, the medium is still produced, but the number of retailers are far fewer in number. These shifts tend to take longer than most pundits
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
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by jakarta 16y ago
When you buy a share you are buying a piece of a business and the future cash flows that it generates. Looking at a figure like dividends is kind of meaningless. You specifically want to look at the cash flow that is available to owners. Th
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40 Billionaires/Wealthy Families Sign the Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge(blogs.wsj.com)
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On their balance sheet, under assets, they record about $812M worth of value for their net property, plant, and equipment. With 720 store locations that comes out to about $1M in value per store. That's probably understated by a lot because
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by jakarta 16y ago
To me, it is pretty fascinating to see how Barnes & Noble has fared versus Borders (now only 1/10 of BN's market cap). Borders made a number of miscalculations that have really cost them dearly. They passed up on running their own onlin
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by jakarta 16y ago
I read the book 2 years ago so my memory is a bit fuzzy... My biggest takeaway from that book is he took an approach to entrepreneurship which emphasized low risk / high uncertainty ventures. For example, he started his business selling Vir
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by jakarta 16y ago
I think it's going to be tough to work remotely in that capacity. Most funds do allow that -- but only if you have worked for them for a period of time and have really proven yourself. If Poland does not have many funds you ought to conside
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Why not raise capital and start your own fund if you have the track record already?

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