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- Native apps are reigning on mobiles, but Jakob Nielsen strategically bets on web apps. — [LINK]
- Steven Krivit continues to trash Andrea Rossi and his LENR technology. — [LINK]
- Interview with Adam Lashinsky — [VIDEO]
- Why some people are more innovative — [VIDEO]
- Forbes editor deciphers Steve Jobs’s Apple. — [VIDEO]
- Jason Ruspini rebuts Eric Zitzewitz on the regulation of political prediction markets. — [COMMENT]
- Eric Zitzewitz petitions the CFTC in favor of real-money prediction markets about politics. — [TEXT]
- Global warming is a big scam. — [LINK]
- A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors — [VIDEO]
- The Tragedy of the Commons — [VIDEO]
- Guy Kawasaki on Steve Jobs — [VIDEO]
- Inside Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney’s taxes — [LINKS]
- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
- Apple Education Push — [LINKS]
- Water Crystals — [DOCUMENT]
- Apple’s e-book software will allow publishers to make textbooks more interactive. — [LINKS + VIDEO]
- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
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Category Archives: Hedging & Insurance
Probability of default — [EUROPE MAP]
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging & Insurance, The Global Economy
Tagged CDSs, credit, credit default swaps, debt, default probabilities, default probability, E.U., economy, Europe, Europe's default risk, European economy, European Union, Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging, Insurance, public debt, risk of sovereign default, world economy
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Matt Taibbi vs. Goldman Sachs — [VIDEO]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WS0rpNHzT0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tibn5IO0I-A
Conspicacy theory (involving credit cards) about coffee futures — [VIDEO]
Posted in Business, Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging & Insurance, The Global Economy
Tagged coffee, coffee futures, coffee price, coffee prices, commodities, commodity, commodity prices, credit cards, derivative trading, derivatives, futures, Hedging, Howard Schultz, inflation, Max Keiser, price, prices, speculation, speculators, Starbucks, trading
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$42 million invested in WeatherBill – [P.R.]
WeatherBill may fundamentally change the risk profile of the global agriculture industry. http://www.weatherbill.com/
Posted in Betting, Finance, Hedging & Insurance
Tagged Google Ventures, Hedging, investing, investments, risk, risks, WeatherBill
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Michael Lewis on the four sets of players in the subprime mortgage market who had the foresight and gumption to short the riskiest mortgage deals: Steve Eisman of FrontPoint, Greg Lippmann at Deutsche Bank, three partners at Cornwall Capital, and Michael Burry of Scion Capital – [VIDEO]
The Big Short:
Posted in Betting, Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging & Insurance, The Global Economy
Tagged Betting, economic crisis, Finance, financial crisis, Goldman Sachs, hedge funds, Hedging, Michael Lewis, subprime lending crisis, subprime mortgage crisis, subprime mortgage market, subprimes, The Big Short
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SportsRiskIndex to provide sports-based risk management products to sports-related businesses
White Paper
Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street – [VIDEO]
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging & Insurance, History
Tagged Finance, Financial Markets, Quants, Wall Street
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Sports Risk Index would allow you to hedge risks on sport prediction markets.
The patent. The latest developments. (audio) I am skeptical, since the US Congress has just outlawed movie prediction markets, but I wish good luck to Chris Rabelais et al. Maybe the political scene will be different next year, who knows. … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Exchange & Market Management, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Hedging & Insurance
Tagged betting markets, CFTC, Chris Rabalais, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Crystal World Holdings, Crystal World Markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging, prediction markets, real-money prediction markets, Sports, Sports Risk Index, SportsRiskIndex, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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Hedging on Prediction Markets
- Yes. – No.