Aug
25
Yahoo Finance is Fun
When it comes to following the markets, Yahoo beats out the competition. Yahoo
Finance has 21.7 million visitors a
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Aug
24
Trading in the Fast Lane
If you haven’t heard of High Frequency Trading yet, you will soon. It is
changing the way markets work,
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Aug
23
The Future of Books
Until very recently, writing was linear out of necessity — one page came after
another. Some books, like House of Leaves
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Aug
22
Hedges That Grow When Your House’s Value Shrinks
A new product called MacroShares allows investors to hedge against changes in
the value of their home. The securities are
Aug
21
Living the Dream
> Today more than two-thirds of Americans own their own homes. Among whites, more
than 75% are homeowners today.
Yet
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Aug
20
The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
The first thing I learned reading Black Swan, is that Nassim Taleb is highly
intelligent, but at least twice as
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Aug
19
Heavy Metal Fish and the Future of Food
> A federal study of mercury contamination released Wednesday found the toxic
substance in every fish tested at nearly 300
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Aug
18
Could We Change Finance?
A good friend of mine, Amol Kapila, just started his blog back up after a few
year’s absence. Naturally,
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Aug
17
Economics 101 — Don’t Pay a lot for College
Discouraging information for those paying off student loans:
> In the end, should students and parents just stop fretting over
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Aug
16
Freedom isn’t Free (and neither is West Point)
For all a rankings worth, Forbes has named West Point the Best College in
America:
> A big factor in
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