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Monthly Archives: January 2010
What Does Gold Hedge Against?
“Not inflation”, the gold critics will shout, in one of their go-to arguments. This is what we hear from CNBC’s Mark Haines at every possible chance: since 1980, gold has not kept up with the CPI and so shouldn’t be … Continue reading
2010 State of Entrepreneurship Address
http://www.kauffman.org/ Download this post to watch the video —if your feed reader does not show it to you.
How Paul Volcker will save the world
Paul Volcker: The specific points at issue are ownership or sponsorship of hedge funds and private equity funds, and proprietary trading — that is, placing bank capital at risk in the search of speculative profit rather than in response to … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Regulations
Tagged banking regulations, banks, central banks, commercial banks, economic crisis, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, financial regulations, financial system, financial systems, hedge funds, investment banks, laws, Paul Volcker, Regulations, risk, risks, systemic risk, systemick risks
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In the universe of Steve Jobs, personal vision trumps the wisdom of the crowd. He’s ready when he thinks we’re ready.
New York Times: Great products, according to Mr. Jobs, are triumphs of “taste.†And taste, he explains, is a byproduct of study, observation and being steeped in the culture of the past and present, of “trying to expose yourself to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Individual Intelligence - Anti Consensus, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Apple, choices, design, designing, hardware, marketing, products, Software, Steve Jobs, taste
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BetFair’s Mark Davies is (finally) blogging.
Two years ago, I wrote that the man should go blogging. Done. Finally. A view from opposite Harrods –> http://markxdavies.blogspot.com/ Truly interesting. Bookmark. Subscribe. Read. Via Crowded Voice UPDATE: And he tweets too.
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Betting, Business, Exchanges & Markets, Resources - References
Tagged BetFair, blog, blogs, Mark Davies
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How to bet on Smarkets
http://smarkets.com/
BetFair apologizes to Niall O’Connor… and the other traders affected by the site outage.
BetFair Forum: Betfair would like to apologise for the unplanned site outage that occurred earlier this afternoon [Monday, January 25, 2010]. The cause of this problem is currently being investigated by our technical team. A list of affected markets will … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Management, Software
Tagged BetFair, outage, site, sites, Software
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Should Adam Siegel change the name of his prediction market company?
Another “Inkling” is in the news.