A Plug In Lamborghini – That Cant Be Right
PARIS — Lamborghini unveiled its Asterion LPI 910-4 concept, the automaker’s first plug-in hybrid, here Wednesday at a sneak preview before the official press days of the 2014 Paris Motor Show. The 910 in its nomenclature refers to the total horsepower output from the combination of its 5.2-liter V10 engine and three electric motors. The…
Things I Am Going To Read This Weekend
Why people believe things you don’t believe – BoingBoing The Cost of the Header – The New Yorker Finding Alibaba: How Jerry Yang Made The Most Lucrative Bet In Silicon Valley History – Forbes How Chris McCandless Died – The New Yorker
What I Learned By Waking Up At 4:30 A.M. For 21 Days
On April 2, I put myself to a new challenge. It was one of the biggest life hacks I’ve ever done. The challenge was simple: waking up 21 consecutive workdays at 4:30 a.m., a challenge I gave the name of #21earlydays. I was already used to waking up early (6 a.m. almost every day), but…
Ebola and Innumeracy
The current awful situation with Ebola interests me not only from the perspective of a past professional life but also because of the profound idiocy that surrounds the disease. I had been looking around for a piece that encapsulates the actual facts about Ebola and as chance would have it a More or Less podcast…
Desert Island Discs
I have long been a fan of Desert Island Discs on he BBC So I thought as a thought experiment it might be interesting to see what I would select and to look at my rationale for doing so. So in no particular order of importance. 1. London Calling – The Clash. Who would have…
Incredible Images Of Wall Street Trading Before The Bloomberg Terminal
From Business Insider -Incredible Images Of Wall Street Trading Before The Bloomberg Terminal You will notice in the lower part of the ticker display there is an indication of how late the ticker was running. Before trading became fully computerized which took a lot longer than people thought the tick would always run late during…
Hedge Fund Rich List
Forbes have once again produced their annual rich list and once again hedge fund and alternative investment managers are over represented. To steal from Winston Churchill – never in the field of human endevour has so much been paid to so few for so little.
Another Lesson In Volatility
Recently, I happened across an article that claimed that the local markets was going up because volatility had gone up this year. After careful consideration I thought…BULLSHIT. This touches on a topic that always irritates the living daylights out of me – volatility and trend are not the same thing and only people who have…
Women And Trading
I have been pondering this article by LB and the wider notion that according to a few peanuts some forms of knowledge might be sex linked. Even this blog has not been immune from sexism. My note on the first women to win a Fields Medal attracted the usual dickhead comment from a reader. Working…
Seven Bad Ideas
In “Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World,” Jeff Madrick — a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and a frequent writer on matters economic — argues that the professional failures since 2008 didn’t come out of the blue but were rooted in decades of intellectual malfeasance. As a practicing and,…
