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by retube 11y ago
> they'd capitalize on the info themselves You don't know that they aren't. If ciients act on these ideas then they'll help move the market in Goldman's favour.
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by retube 11y ago
Can someone give me a decent explanation of how blockchain will speed up a securities settlement? E.g: Big Bank sells 200m of some bond to a hedge fund. Bond is actually "given up" to a third party who hold bond on HF's behal
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by retube 11y ago
FYI "dayly" should be "daily" But very nice site
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by retube 11y ago
> It was about charging differently based on WHAT you are using. Sure - but what you use, and from where, is highly correlated with wealth
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by retube 11y ago
As I understand it this effectively this stops "richer" people being charged more, which is being universally applauded as a good thing. But isn't this contrary to the whole inequality issue? Shouldn't richer people be c
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by retube 11y ago
In no particular order: Nuclear fusion Hyperloop Hypersonic engines Cancer Antibiotics replacement Optimisation / simplification of tax code Crop yields, artificial meat Diplomatic solutions to ethnic/sectarian tensions
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by retube 11y ago
How does one go about having their details removed from whois?
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by retube 11y ago
Skyscanner just last week
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by retube 11y ago
That fusion link nails it. Exactly my points elsewhere in this thread.
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by retube 11y ago
Well of course, but this is not accounted for in Oxfam's analysis, hence it's pretty meaningless.
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by retube 11y ago
It's hardly cherry picking. I don't know exactly the percentage, but let's say 50% of the US population is net in debt. So all these people are poorer than the millions in developing nations without a penny to their name? As
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by retube 11y ago
> Today, the top 1% control fully half of the planet's wealth This is a meaningless statistic given negative wealth is possible (indeed common). By this simple measure a recent MBA graduate of Harvard with 200k debt and no assets is
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by retube 11y ago
How are correlations between variables accounted for?
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by retube 11y ago
Why do firms offer options as opposed to actual equity? The way these options are structured plus US tax law basically means a lose - lose scenario for the employee.
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by retube 11y ago
Reading the linked article about how employees of Good paid huge tax bills on stock that ultimately proved worthless - how insane is US tax law?? Surely you should only be taxed on realised gains, i.e when you cash out.
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by retube 11y ago
... if they don't balk: "per register" ;)
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by retube 11y ago
yeah but most interbank dealing is collaterised now so little counterparty credit risk left (altho this does arguably just shift counterparty risk to funding risk, but that's another story...)
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by retube 11y ago
> What would they be called if they aren't derivatives? Securitised bonds, which is a cash product. The distinction between a cash & derivative product is really simple - one is leveraged the other isn't. E.g if I buy 100m
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by retube 11y ago
Lehman went bust because liquidity in the credit markets dried up - i.e they were unable to roll short-term financing to fund longer-dated balance sheet. The markets thought Lehman had big exposure to the US residential and commercial mortg
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by retube 11y ago
The notional is purely a reference amount. For the vast majority of derivatives the notional amount is never exchanged (cross-currency basis swaps being a notable exception). E.g a simple interest rate swap: I agree to pay you 2% per annum
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by retube 11y ago
what does "blended into derivatives" mean? Yes mortgages were sold on a packaged up into MBS (Mortgage back securities), but these are cash products, like a bond or equity, NOT a derivative.
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by retube 11y ago
Yes but those products (Mortgage backed Securities) are cash products, like a bond or equity, NOT a derivative.
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by retube 11y ago
Except that derivatives were not the cause of the financial crisis. Over-enthusiastic mortgage lending to poor borrowers caused the financial crisis.
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by retube 11y ago
The derivatives piece is totally wrong of course. Gross Notional is a completely meaningless number - it does not represent what value is owed or how much risk there is. E.g GS could have 1tr of gross notional of derivatives with JP but wit
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by retube 11y ago
The separation of "bitcoin" and "blockchain" is not only correct, but further more it's a good thing people/media are becoming aware of the distinction between the blockchain as a protocol and bitcoin as an app
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by retube 11y ago
The ratio of 3 may or may not be correct, but the specific analyses here are absolutely worthless as at least one of the model inputs for each example is just pulled out of thin air. He could be out by an order of magnitude.
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by retube 11y ago
Aren't you then just effectively shifting your choice of trusted provider from ISP to VPN? Is it possible to run your own VPN on a VPS host, digitil ocean or linode or similar?
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by retube 11y ago
Nope. I've had several of these, all were at least a full days work, which I had to cram into late evenings etc on top of day job. And to top it all, they weren't even discussed in the interview! Never again.
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The hard parts of starting your own company(fastcompany.com)
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by retube 11y ago
BI is just a huge subsidy for employers. Competition in the labour market will absolutely crush salaries if everyone gets a basic income irrespective of whether employed or not. Now given that income taxes > (or even >>) corporatio

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