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Economists predict recession ends this year. As if!
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
... they don't see the recession lasting longer than the first quarter of 2010. Still, they're hedging their bets, saying the recovery will be slow and painful. It's hard to believe them giv...
Hedging the bets
in Sox First, on January 13, 2009
Hedge fund managers are now conceding that Bernard Madoff has probably achieved what the Securities and Exchange Commission's Christopher Cox could never do: usher in strict new regulations for hedge funds. "This is an Enron moment for hedge funds," Peter Rup, chief investment offi...
CarDelMar: Mietwagen-Hedging garantiert günstigen Jahresurlaub
in Das Mietwagen-Blog, on January 8, 2009
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Hedging - das klingt beim ersten Hinschauen nach Hedge-Fonds und Finanzen. Gemeint ist aber etwas komplett anderes, wie aus einer Pressemitteilung des Mietwagenbrokers Cardelmar hervorgeht. Doch ...
Italian-Designed Corvette and Czech Tatra Win Top Awards at Fairfield Concours
in Classical Drives, on September 24, 2008
...powered car reminded us that Czechoslovakia was once in the leading edge of automobile engineering. Communism, however, lacked an eye for art.
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MSCI Barra, Morningstar Arrangement
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 21, 2008
...ge funds for its database including information about portfolio holdings, strategy allocation and hedging techniques....
Is AIG next?
in Sox First, on September 16, 2008
... which has acted like an investment bank. "AIG is a counterparty in a large number of swap and hedging transactions. It wrote credit default swaps, which insure against corporate default, some pr...
Bootstrapper's hall of fame: Bootstrapping in Eastern Europe
in BootStrapMe, on August 27, 2008
...he launch of his first business, Energybyte:
• The new land of opportunity. After the fall of communism, Romania, like other countries in Eastern Europe , became fertile ground for entrepreneur...
Cows & how the world works
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 24, 2008
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SOCIALISM:
You have 2 cows, and you give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISM:
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM:
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sell...
Computing is Bigger in Vegas
in Bizinformer, on June 12, 2008
...t there in July (with the exception of a June seminar on Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities). Neither sound at all interesting (no offense internal auditors - Go Flirt with...
Wall Street backs Obama
in Sox First, on June 5, 2008
...securities and investment sector is comfortable about the prospect of President Obama. But they are hedging their bets because they think he'll win. Business is like that. ...
McCarty Lives: Cal State Fires a Faculty Member For Not Signing a Loyalty Oath
in The Universities Weblog, on May 19, 2008
I read about this story first at the Chronicle of High Education 's news blog. But the blogosphere is humming with the story. Cal State has fired an adjunct faculty member at cal state fullerton , Wendy Gonaver, because she refused to sign an oath to "defend" the constitutions...
Cuba Goes Mobile
in The Wireless Weblog, on March 30, 2008
On Friday, Raul Castro announced that , for the first time, Cubans are now legally permitted to own and use cell phones.
"The decision, announced in an understated manner on Page 2 of the Communist Party daily Granma , adds to an array of developments that indicate that Castro, 76, is...
The Gateway to Eastern Europe
in Hidden Travel Gems, on March 19, 2008
...r the past two decades, Bucharest has become a city with a modern flare.
Revolution Square (Where communism breathed its last in Romania) is at the center of the city and is as impressive for its si...
Subprime explained - crunch time glossary
in Sox First, on February 14, 2008
Credit crunch? Credit default swaps? Honeymoon loans? NINJA loans? Negative pledge? The subprime crisis is upon us and investors are confronted with jargon designed to baffle and keep them in the dark. Here is my glossary of key terms you'll need to know to keep ahead of the game: arrang...
China Trade 101: For the Chinese Consumer, Money Doesn't Grow on Trees
in China Venture News, on February 12, 2008
China's economy is hot. And money in China is changing hands at an incredible pace. That leads many Western business people to assume that the average family in China has lots of disposable income and that they spend it freely. Not so...
The China Vortex recently discussed a report on consu...
Northern Trust FoHF's To Recieve Daily, Instead of Monthly Data
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 28, 2008
...an obtain daily information about their hedge fund holdings, current value, performance, liquidity, hedging, and a detailed breakdown of assets and transactions. The information will be accessible thr...
The business of climate change
in Sox First, on October 30, 2007
... which to reduce through redesigning operations, which to transfer to others through insurance or hedging contracts, and which to bear. "For some, but not all, companies, the approach to ...
Mossberg: Mobile Consumers Deserve Better!
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 22, 2007
...ly can't get what they need and want. Mossberg is right, it "like the old bureaucracies of communism."
So far, mobile consumers are winning some battles such as the class-action lawsui...
My Projects: #3 - GeoTargeted Video Yellow Pages
in Businesspundit, on September 6, 2007
I promised a few weeks ago to write about my biggest project, but something happened that sidetracked our business model. I planned to wait until we had re-focused by testing the market for some signs of the right direction, but that is proving to take longer than I expected. So at the risk of comin...
Hedge Fund Launched To Trade in Art
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 31, 2007
...ts, modernist and contemporary creations are all within the Art Trading Fund's mandate.
The hedging strategy -- something Mr. Carlson is careful not to reveal in too much detail-- uses put...
The Successor to Rubik's Cube?
in The Gadgets Weblog, on February 16, 2007
...e even helped move the economy of Cube-creator Ern�' Rubik's home country Hungary out of Communism . Toy manufacturers would love to duplicate the Cube's success by creating a Rubik's...
Lesson #8 Take one good idea and go deep
in BootStrapMe, on December 24, 2006
...ut so that you'll be leveraging your personal experience and presumably one of your passions. hedging your bets by thinking about and playing around with a variety of different ideas is a h...
Bad accountants executed as China cracks down on corruption
in Sox First, on December 18, 2006
...s created a new class of oligarchs (pretty similar to what occurred in the former Soviet Union when Communism collapsed). And as MercatorNet points out , Chinese laws are hopeless when it comes to p...
Going deep
in BootStrapMe, on October 13, 2006
... domain and go extremely deep on this idea.
He continues in words seemingly strange for a VC:
hedging your bets by thinking about and playing around with a variety of different ideas is a h...
Is Digg Rigged?
in Businesspundit, on September 11, 2006
...in Diggville . He seems surprised that Digg is having trouble but, haven't we seen this type of communism fail time and time again, only to be reinvented in some other form?
One thing I learned ...
London - the growing rival to New York in hedge funds business
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 4, 2006
..."Data from Hedge Fund Research , a consultancy, show that in the second quarter, a share-hedging strategy involving both long and short sales was the most popular in America and Britain. Bu...
Hedging Without A Hedge Fund
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 1, 2006
... Businessweek has an interesting article about hedging without a hedge fund .
Hedge funds-private investment pools that cater to wealthy investors-have gotten plenty of buzz in recent ye...
The war on options scams
in Sox First, on August 14, 2006
Last week was a big week in the US for options backdating scandals . Former executives of Brocade, former president and CEO Gregory Reyes and former vice president of human resources Stephanie Jensen, were hit with a 12-count indictment for scheming to backdate stock option grants to give...
SAAS & SAP
in The CIO Weblog, on June 15, 2006
...way. But what I saw and heard at SAPPHIRE convinces me that SAP leadership is, at minimum, strongly hedging its bets - putting the company in a position to not just protect its old business model, but...
Options scams: the regulators move in
in Sox First, on June 5, 2006
The fallout from the options backdating scandal continues and the dogs are barking. The number of public companies under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission or federal prosecutors has grown to more than 30, according to a report .
"Between the RIAA and a Hard Place"
in Digital Music - The Future, on May 6, 2006
...change the game. "Copyright" will become the most feared word in America, the way " communism " once was. And in the end, we as consumers, customers, fans, and even creators, ...
"Between the RIAA and a Hard Place"
in P2P File Sharing, on May 6, 2006
...change the game. "Copyright" will become the most feared word in America, the way " communism " once was. And in the end, we as consumers, customers, fans, and even creators, ...
PreEntrepreneurship: What To Do When You Are Waiting
in Businesspundit, on April 19, 2006
...ows through a company. You don't need to understand esoteric rules about revenue recognition or hedging foreign currency, you just need to understand the basics. Don't think that is just the a...
Russian Gambling sees 30-40% rise, Patriarch concerned
in The Gambling Weblog, on February 25, 2006
... Since the fall of Communism Russia has seen a 20-30% a year rise in gambling. Yesterday, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, condemned gambling as one of the social ills t...
Innovation Through Acquisition: The "Yes, But" Strategy
in Businesspundit, on November 8, 2005
...tegy of buying young companies with early-stage technologies in emerging markets is a good way of hedging against the possibility of missing out on major technological advances. Further, they h...
Hedge fund naked put selling
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 16, 2005
... stock against the call part of the convertible. In order to capture the fixed-income portion while hedging the equity risk.( many funds try to magnify returns with leverage).
But in the real world o...
Fooled by randomness
in TJ's Weblog, on March 20, 2005
...war).
His insights and anecdotes he shares are amazing and entertaining. He probably has the best hedging strategy in his business life I ever came across and shows how much depends on luck (or rand...
CELEBRITY SEX SCANDAL IN CHINA
in The Celebrities Weblog, on September 7, 2004
... either as shameful, or overblown and unworthy of attention.
Now however, as China moves away from Communism and embraces Capitalism, the media, which is subsidized by the government, is under increa...
the bootstrapping guide
in TJ's Weblog, on August 19, 2004
...bout so that you'll be leveraging your personal experience and presumably one of your passions. Hedging your bets by thinking about and playing around with a variety of different ideas is a huge w...
Are BusinessPeople Unethical?
in Businesspundit, on September 27, 2003
...ren't undertaken by real Christians because real Christians are non-violent. I could say that communism only failed in the Soviet Union because the people there didn't practice real commun...
HealthCare Debacle
in Businesspundit, on June 24, 2003
... think the answer is to turn it over to the government. That's like saying we should practice communism because we feel that everyone has the "right" to a job. I think the answer ...
Economics of Mass Destruction
in Businesspundit, on May 29, 2003
... history" that Karl Marx foretold when the Berlin Wall fell and the titanic struggle between communism and capitalism was concluded. But the winner wasn't exactly the one Marx predicte...
Hedging and Communism?
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 23, 2007
...and empowering the masses. So he would have been flabbergasted to see his prophecy realized, not by communism, but by the globalization of Anglo-American economic liberalism. Opening up markets to the...