kevindkeogh

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by kevindkeogh 6y ago
The split happened prior to the Enron bankruptcy and was the result of a decade of litigation (Andersen consulting partners weren't happy with the profit-splitting with the audit partners).
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by kevindkeogh 7y ago
pocketsmith ( https://www.pocketsmith.com/ ) is a pretty good solution for this. I was a Mint user that was concerned about the privacy and also looking for a service that provided an API. I'm not 100% sure about the pri
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by kevindkeogh 7y ago
Appears that something is going on with your SSL cert. Firefox is preventing me from opening the page with a SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN error.
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by kevindkeogh 7y ago
Sure, but New York is not only for the property owners. I think it's good that we have a say in how our community develops. Think of it this way, without New Yorkers, this building would be worthless.
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by kevindkeogh 7y ago
This is subject to corporate charter/bylaws and, usually, the 20% rule.
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by kevindkeogh 9y ago
It is correct. Not all banks in Muslim-majority countries are sharia-compliant.
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by kevindkeogh 9y ago
I agree that the definition of solvency is wrapped up in the value of the assets, which can be difficult to assess. That's why I said "The Fed /believed/ that the value of AIGs assets were greater than its liabilities&qu
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by kevindkeogh 9y ago
> After all, banks remained basically insolvent in this fractional reserve scheme. This is incorrect. Bank solvency has to do with the assets of the bank, even in markets with commodity (e.g., gold) or representative money (e.g., gold-ba
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by kevindkeogh 9y ago
Not in this case. You would need to have standing and a relevant claim to sue any person or firm. I would think it would pretty difficult to show sort of generalized claim about the injustices of the patent system. That is a political quest
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by kevindkeogh 9y ago
I was, thank you for the clarification!
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by kevindkeogh 9y ago
These two rates serve different purposes. The Fed Funds rate is the rate at which banks earn interest on money held there (so keeping it low encourages banks to not keep it there, raising it does the opposite). LIBOR (and there are differen
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by kevindkeogh 10y ago
there is a lot of market infrastructure and jurisprudence that exists specifically for this problem. Trades can and are canceled as the situation demands[0]. [0] https://www.theice.com/publicdocs/endex/ICE_Endex_Tr
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by kevindkeogh 10y ago
This is fundamentally wrong. As Matt Levine said, "proper phrasing is 'DB supports $1.7trn of assets with an equity value equal to SnapChat's'" [1] [1] https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status&#x2