I know for a fact that HFT's are making lot less than they were 5 years ago. The pie is getting smaller and smaller as similar strategies deploy...
We are in an era of unprecedented leveraging and deleveraging and mood swings in very short periods of time.
I have some capital losses in a retail account (<50 trades) and my K1 for a money up prop firm will reflect an income for year 2011. Can these...
They said the same about housing. What is equally disturbing is the amount of open derivative positions (ie futures, ETFs) to underlying...
They survived before but at a great cost after the great depression which led to rise of Mao communists. My prediction is China will signal...
Yes. i said the pay in the US is better is why they come over.
Because the US has a shortage of skilled engineers and the pay is alot better.
Yes, 9 Zhangs work for 1 Joe but used to be 50 Zhangs for 1 Joe. Joe is the uber wealthy American global capitalist, while the rest of America is...
Today's capitalism approaches zero sum as the pie shrinks. The middle class loses while the ruling class get wealthier. It's just wealth...
are you kidding. most of them in SF are H1B fresh off the boat immigrants
Better is to wait 12 months from any previous S&P high if S&P breaks 20% lower from that high (confirmed bear). Plot 12 months from that...
90% of silicon valley employees have 3 or less letters in their last name.
Geez, ever go to SF into an apple or google building. Half the office are chinese engineers.
Sounds more like a global deflationary supercycle and basic supply/demand than any particular culture's economic principles. It would make sense...
But then how come nobody's hiring Americans.
Majority of the GDP is on infrastructure development, ie roads, sewage plants, hospitals, broadband, pipelines, electricity power, oil drilling,...
Chiang Kai Shek argued in the end the West prospered in the 20th century because the East stayed in depression after the big reset in the 30's,...
China was the largest economy in the world for centuries until the 1800's. This is more a continuation after a dark period (Mao)
I don't konw much about urban RE, but wondering what people thought about city prices past 2 decades and if this can persist. I have observed...
This is across many industries. Pricing power is over. No matter what central banks try to do to inflate, we are in a grand deflationary...
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