Mark Cuban: High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers
Maybe….maybe not. Its probably more akin to pick pocketing with baseball bat – supposedly subtle and frictionless but actual a source of violence. More here
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Just to widen everyone’s gaze. To steal from Mark Twain….reports of the death of trends have been greatly exaggerated.
Smart People Doing Smart Things
Note to audience – this video contains smart people doing smart things. Do not watch if you have a passion for reality tv, womens magazines or if you have a child with a bogan name such as Alivia, Alixzander, Amarly, Antwonet, Ararahbella or Sierra-Leonie.
The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
Brilliant piece by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone – I have said it before and I will say it again – Taibbi is the best finance journalist going around today. All the rest seemed to be boring hacks who try and conjure up some postdictive bullshit as to why something happened as opposed to looking…
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Following on from my surprise that betting agencies present their information in a manner similar to other derivative providers I have been doing a bit of trolling around and found that someone is actually making a market on the timing of the discovery of the Higgs boson. For those not up with the nitty gritty…
DetailsOdd Thing I Learn’t Last Night
I have just started reading The Status Syndrome which is a look at how our status and how the perception of our status affects both our longevity and our health. In the opening few pages I have learn’t that actors and actresses that won an Academy Award lived four years longer on average than those…
DetailsWhere The Hell Is Matt? 2012
Matt is back For those who missed the original I find these vids to be a contrast between what we could be versus what we are……
DetailsWell There Ya Go
I occasionally peruse the Finalternatives website. Generally to find out who is going to jail and which hedge fund manager despite delivering sub par performance for the past decade has still managed to buy a $25,000,000 apartment I came across this headline whilst scanning it this morning – Thiel Launches Growth-Stage VC Firm I thought…
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