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Follow the money: for the past year,
the big trade was short bank stocks, and use the cash to go long oil. Massively profitable, but now that trade is unwinding. So where is the big money being invested now? Lots of places:
diamonds,
fine art,
guitars, and
Madonna.
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant
at 2:50 AM on August 20, 2008
(36 comments)
The simple phrase
"it's different this time" are the four most expensive words in the English language.
Sir John Templeton,
1912-2008, we thank you for this lesson and countless others.
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant
at 3:48 AM on July 9, 2008
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The rapid growth of electronic trading
since 1976 has benefited equity market participants by improving competition, reducing cost and increasing liquidity while insuring better pricing.
One unexpected side effect has been the recent emergence of
"dark pools of liquidity", or the secret stock market.
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant
at 10:14 AM on May 20, 2008
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Academic discussions of stock markets frequently reference
The Efficient Markets Hypothesis; an idea that share prices are fairly valued, their prices reflecting all available information. However folklore such as
"Sell in May and go away", which proved prudent in 2007, clashes with this theory.
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant
at 8:22 AM on May 15, 2008
(11 comments)
I recently bought a cheap DVD of
Broken Arrow, the late 90's John Woo thriller that portrays an attempt to steal nuclear weapons.
A earlier MeFI thread briefly brought up NEST,
or the Nuclear Emergency Search Team who are supposed to find these things if smuggled into the United States.
I
googled on it, and while I wasn't surprised to learn there have been a large number of hoaxes I was surprised find out there have been some
thirty incidents not classified as a hoax.
A large part of the Woo film deals with the idea of The Feds searching for nuclear weapons from oribit.
Well I might just be a country boy but even I know there is Physics and then there is
Movie Physics so I was curious -
can these nuclear weapons be spotted by satellites? Maybe we're getting
all bothered over pretty much nuthin, if The Feds already know where they are.
Rense has a interesting post about NEST in NYC.
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant
at 5:39 AM on October 4, 2002
(15 comments)
Is this the big one?
With some 18,000 sick and over 700 people having died of the flu in a country the size of France over the past couple of months, I find it odd that the media seems obsesessed with the US / Iraq thing and missing children.
The 1918 flu epidemic killed some 675,00 Americans alone, with a global tally in excess of 20 MILLION killed. Some of the photos taken back then
are pretty grim. It seems the power of influenza is that it (ahhem)
mutates and thats why it could once again be a big killer. Cynical as it might sound, as a race maybe we
need something like this to teach us that we've got a lot more in common with each other than skin colour and religion might otherwise lead us to believe.
ObDisclaimer: I'm unemployed right now, have maybe six months of canned goods in the flat; if this hits London, I ain't opening my door to nobody.
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant
at 6:29 AM on August 30, 2002
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