I'm not sceptical, I know for a fact that several "Wizards" blew up and one is a convicted fraudster who bilked investors out of millions. If...
Yes it's bizarre - followers of religions are notorious for repeatedly breaking the commandments they are supposed to follow. But what has any of...
Only humans could come up with anything as stupid as marriage!
I'm just saying, you seem to be bragging a little. Usually that hinders rather than helps performance. Best to just focus on the work and if you...
My current guess is that we rally up to near 1000 and then top out, ready for a decent decline (15-25%) into Sep/Oct.
150 years is a stupid and redundant sentence.
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601213&sid=a_8VwpO5m0WQ
Housing, stocks, cars, and other big-ticket items are off 20-50%. Wages in many industries are down. Compared to that, a little markup on the...
As a trading strategist, you may wish to familiarize yourself with the concept of "red flags": specifically, those predictive of blowup.
Until you have read all the books on this thread at least twice, and taken copious notes of all the main points in each book, you aren't really...
Seth Klarman, "Margin of Safety" Martin Whitman, "The Aggressive Conservative Investor" Early edition of "Security Analysis" (not the later...
I hate the way bloomberg articles are written as though unqualified financial journalists with no track record of trading or investment profits...
Remember this is the USA, land of multi-million dollar awards for "hurt feelings" and coffee spills, and where OJ was declared not guilty. Adding...
"Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again" This strikes me as...
I don't know anyone on the Christian-Right who has tried to criminalize adultery. By contrast, many on the left are for tax hikes, employment...
If the medicine is only being paid for by the patients, families, and doctors, then yes, that's correct. If it's getting taxpayer money, then the...
How would it "fit the crime" for relations of his to lose assets they had earned legitimately?
Do you have a link or source for his 08 performance? AFAIK he's been in his place in Thailand for a few years now.
Or a small % of his net worth. Obviously if most of the manager's wealth goes down with the ship, that's a pretty good sign he was honest, and...
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