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Why Do They Want Your Money?

April 4, 2008 – 6:06 pm

In the last week, I’ve read the Wharton “Hedge Fund Game” paper (PDF), and commentary on it by All About Alpha, Financial Crookery, Dealbook, and the FT. The debate focuses on one type of manager and fund, and misses the idea that funds and managers are a mixed bag; what matters is WHY THEY […]

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Sunday Reading

March 30, 2008 – 9:21 am

Glam ad network cuts payments to publisher partners, coincidentally right after raising a buttload of capital. They need to cut costs to meet their promises to investors; now that they’ve raised the capital, they don’t need to keep their blogger contributors happy anymore, and they’ll soon be able to buy some of those blogs […]

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What I’m Reading

March 26, 2008 – 6:05 pm

Chris Perruna made me one of his Weekend Must Read Links 3-21-08, and I got a lot of hits off of it. Thanks! There’s a few other good articles on that list, so it’s worth visiting in its own right …
Brett Steenbarger with Control Your Brain by Controlling Your Risk. I […]

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Drugs In Our Drinking Water

March 10, 2008 – 6:18 pm

First of all, it’s not “news.” Here’s an article from three years ago, here’s an article from five years ago, and there’s lots of older evidence of the same thing.
Second, we need some perspective. A century ago, in most major cities the water was polluted with horse manure runoff into the sewers. […]

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Saturn’s Moon Once Had Dinosaurs?

February 16, 2008 – 8:42 am

Saturn’s moon Titan has oil on it!
… data from the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn has shown that the ringed planet’s moon has “hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth,” according to research reported in the Geophysical Research Letters.
So when did Titan have dinosaurs?
Or is it […]

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