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WillPate : Time to rethink Sarbanes–Oxley - Examiner's report on collapse of Lehman Brothers indicates it was "too rules-based to stop the clever creative accountant or the would-be manipulator of financial reporting". Principles based regulation is an emergent theme.
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joshua : MessagePack - Extremely efficient object serialization library - lots of related stuff
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WillPate : Chris Dodd's conflct of interest? - His wife's firm stands to benefit from his proposed legislation that would put derivatives on exchanges
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Jeremy Zawodny : Google's Python Class - Google's Python Class - Google Code - Google's Python Class - Google's Python Class - Google Code: learn python the way new googlers do, apparently
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WillPate : Why I take an omega-3 supplement before bedtime - "significant renewal and turnover of brain nerve cells membranes - whose fluidity is modulated by omega-3 content - occurs during sleep"
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WillPate : Author Michael Lewis On Wall St's Delusion - 60 Minutes report including full video of the interview
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WillPate : Ordinary Outcomes of Extraordinary Recklessness - John Hussman says "the recent credit crisis did not emerge as some unpredictable surprise, but was instead the very ordinary outcome of extraordinary recklessness"
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WillPate : Untangling Financial Regulation - Justin Fox, author of The Myth of the Rational Market, helps make sense of a confusing subject in this Harvard Business interview
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WillPate : Derivatives not so dangerous? - Hedge funds that used them showed lower fund risks, engaged in less risk shifting in 2nd & 3rd quarters to make up for losses in 1st & 2nd st quarters, and were less likely to liquidate during downturns
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WillPate : Complexity and Collapse - Niall Ferguson says "Imperial collapse may come much more suddenly than many historians imagine...fiscal deficits and military overstretch suggests that the United States may be the next empire on the precipice"
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WillPate : The Retirement Lottery - Absolute Return Partners' most recent letter says buy and hold is "likely to yield disappointing returns" for the next few years
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WillPate : It Helps to be Rich - The most recent letter from the Lisco Report, very well researched
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WillPate : The Story of the CDO Market Meltdown: An Empirical Analysis (PDF) - A Harvard undergrad's award winning report that cited in Michael Lewis’ book "The Big Short"
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WillPate : Wall Street Reform That Will Prevent The Next Financial Crisis (PDF) - Senator Ted Kaufman says separate commercial from investment banking, cap bank size, regulate derivatives, prevent conflicts of interest, leverage constraints, extend fiduciary standard to retail brokers, put civil liability for securities violations on t
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WillPate : The Coming Oil & Water Shortage - A truly excellent presentation from oil industry analyst Matthew Simmons
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WillPate : S&P Misfit Stocks - Deletions from the S&P 500 outperform new additions, and the “index effect” has decreased over time
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WillPate : Is China broke? Hidden debt burdens Asia giant - "The nation has erected a complex system for magically making its debts disappear, but a look up China's sleeve shows that its IOUs may equal its GDP."
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WillPate : Good Dog, Smart Dog - Are dogs may be smarter than we thought or just great actors?
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WillPate : Potentially risky loans helped ease recession? - "lines of credit not only spared small and mid-sized firms from bankruptcy, but also let them emerge from the recession on more solid financial ground"
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WillPate : What economists are learning from cyber-economies - "ideal petri dishes for studying economic behavior and testing economic-policy theories" with "good, clean data"
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WillPate : Revealing BAAC Supercycles - Bronson Capital Markets Research says that market supercycles happen on average every 16 years
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WillPate : Reframing Health As More Than Healthcare - Self-management is going to become more discussed as we face up to the long term costs
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WillPate : Citi on Sovereign CDS - "You Can't Blame the Mirror for Your Ugly Face"
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WillPate : The benefits of naked CDS - A contrarian view of a vilified financial instrument
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Jeremy Zawodny : NTFS symbolic link - NTFS symbolic link: holy crap! widnows got symlinks
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joshua : tahoe-lafs - Tahoe-LAFS is a secure, decentralized, data store.
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kaninka.net : "So why has Beckham’s injury been met with such interest? Matthew Syed, writing in The Times, seemed..." - “So why has Beckham’s injury been met with such interest? Matthew Syed, writing in The Times, seemed to put his finger on it in his sporting obituary of Becks. He wasn’t just a talented footballer, but New Labour personified. Exploding onto the scen
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Andy Baio : Jane McGonigal's TED talk on using games to save the world - games can motivate you to do mundane tasks or something meaningful, choose wisely
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kaninka.net : forhereyesonly: (via art-or-porn) [via]
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kaninka.net : melisaki: United States Airship Akron photo by Margaret... - melisaki: United States Airship Akron photo by Margaret Bourke-White, 1931
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