jim_greco

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by jim_greco 12y ago
In my experience in finance it's all about the interviewer showing the interviewee how smart she is. There's smart quants/programmers/traders/etc and people good at solving brainteasers. You need the former, but pe
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There's plenty of libraries for this. Jackson being the best one I've used.
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by jim_greco 12y ago
It's a pain when you are first learning and typing every keystroke, but with a modern IDE (IntelliJ) you don't really need to worry about things like this.
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by jim_greco 12y ago
The biggest thing for me is that the tooling around Java makes maintaining large projects extremely easy. Being able to refactor hundreds of files in a few keystrokes without worry lets me sleep well at night. It's certainly a lot fas
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by jim_greco 12y ago
It's unfortunate. They had a real opportunity and instead created a lifeless soulless building that stands in deep contrast to the subtle memorial next door or Calatrava's soaring transit hub. Too many sacrifices had to be made f
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by jim_greco 12y ago
It's conveinent to see things through western or SV capitalism eyes, but Japan's 'malaise' is all about demographics and a 20 year inept Government response to deflation. If you look at metrics like GDP per working age a
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by jim_greco 12y ago
> According to the complaint, the four companies participated in twice-daily conference calls to set global price benchmarks for platinum and palladium, which also affected derivative products based on the precious metals. I was bond tra
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by jim_greco 12y ago
Absolutely. The financial system is interlinked. If MS, AIG, Citi, etc. would have gone down then GS wouldn't have survived.
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by jim_greco 12y ago
The meeting with Paulson at the Treasury happened after TARP was signed into law (October 3). The book Too Big To Fail does a good job of summarizing the events.
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The article is about them becoming bank holding companies which preceded any talk of TARP. They became bank holding companies so they could get access to the discount window and get different accounting treatments.
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Very odd indeed. This is a complete regression to how the market was traded 20 years ago when every bank used to have a NASDAQ market making desk that would make a principal market in any security you wanted. Those desks all got wiped out w
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by jim_greco 12y ago
Japanese companies are flush with money, but the problem is demand and not supply. Japan has an declining population and even faster declining working age population. Combine this with the sales tax increase and a slowdown in China and y
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by jim_greco 12y ago
Each area is different I guess. In NYC Whole Foods is among the cheapest of the supermarkets and one of the highest in quality. For example, Gristedes and Morton Williams cost more and their fruits/veges selection is poor.