Pinboard: bookmarks for ignatz tagged 'finance'

"While I stared at the two goats I received a frantic call from my office: the arse had fallen out of it, and we had all lost everything. But who could have predicted that?"

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may 2009 by ignatz

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California: The ungovernable state | The Economist

California may require a constitutional convention. That terrifies me.

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may 2009 by ignatz

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Opacity

Quick Footnotes (generally working notes not interesting enough to make it to my next book) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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march 2009 by ignatz

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http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/

"My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the courage to sometimes say: I don’t know...." The author of The Black Swan.

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march 2009 by ignatz

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FT.com / Comment / Analysis - Stanford’s sugar-crusted show

Good summary of the Stanford Investments fraud and regulatory failures.

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march 2009 by ignatz

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Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room

sociology paper: an "ethnology of arbitrage" from Industrial and Corporate Change

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february 2009 by ignatz

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Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street

For five years, Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before

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february 2009 by ignatz

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Jonathan Jarvis » Archive » Crisis of Credit Visualized

The Crisis of Credit Visualized is an animated short that explains the economic crisis by giving it form. It is also an argument for how designers have the ability to see a complex situation, then turn around and communicate it to others.

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february 2009 by ignatz

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Chaos in California | The ungovernable state | The Economist

Investors sometimes say that recessions help to reveal flaws in business models. This one has exposed deep cracks in the state of California.

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february 2009 by ignatz

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20% in Los Angeles County receive public aid - Los Angeles Times

One in five Los Angeles County residents -- nearly 2.2 million people -- are receiving public assistance payments or benefits

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february 2009 by ignatz

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Fannie Mae Logic Bomb Would Have Caused Weeklong Shutdown | Threat Level from Wired.com

Evil leftover cronjob might have made the financial crash way more fun

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january 2009 by ignatz

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dabagirls.com

The kept women of fallen bankers and their sufferings.

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january 2009 by ignatz

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Map of the Market at SmartMoney.com
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january 2009 by ignatz

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Real Time Economics : A Chorus of Cassandras

some of the people who, to varying degrees, saw the housing bust and credit crisis coming

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january 2009 by ignatz

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douglain: AGAINST SLEEP AND NIGHTMARE ON PONZI SCHEMES

Excerpt from "Against Sleep and Nightmares" on Ponzi schemes and capitalism. Pithy and smart.

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december 2008 by ignatz

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Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip » Blog Archive » Jesus People Pray That False Idol Will Save God’s Economy

Area churchy people actually pray before golden bull. Lightning bolt ETA not known.

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october 2008 by ignatz

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Lahde Quits Hedge Funds, Thanks `Idiots' for Success

Andrew Lahde, the hedge-fund manager who quit after posting an 870 percent gain last year, said farewell to clients in a letter that thanks stupid traders for making him rich and ends with a plea to legalize marijuana.

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october 2008 by ignatz

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LRB · Slavoj Žižek: Don’t Just Do Something, Talk

So while it is true that we live in a society that demands risky choices, it is one in which the powerful do the choosing, while others do the risking.

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october 2008 by ignatz

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News: More time needed for foreclosures - OCRegister.com

Map of estimated time it would take to sell the foreclosures in each zip code in OC

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october 2008 by ignatz

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Chase mortgage memo pushes ‘Cheats & Tricks’ - Business - Oregonlive.com

The memo title says it all: Zippy Cheats and Tricks.

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october 2008 by ignatz

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Subprime nation - Mortgage Insider - OCRegister.com

mapping the subprime crisis over the years

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october 2008 by ignatz

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Strategery Capital Management

"Putting your money where our mouth is."

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october 2008 by ignatz

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mcbrennan: Congress Responds To Credit Crisis With Bold Initiative For More Wool Research

EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE TAX FOR CERTAIN WOODEN ARROWS DESIGNED FOR USE BY CHILDREN is my favorite setaside in the bailout bill.

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october 2008 by ignatz

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The Big Picture | Understanding the Significance of Mark-to-Market Accounting

"In my office, we don't buy our clients beanie babies or Star Wars collectibles or 1964 Ferrari 275GTBs. We purchase stocks and ETFs and bonds and preferreds for them."

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october 2008 by ignatz

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RESEARCHERS FIND LARGEST YET SUBPRIME NUMBER

Economists working at the United States Department of Treasury and top Wall Street banks announced the historic discovery of a very large subprime number, the biggest yet seen.

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september 2008 by ignatz

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How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

how many more complicated ways are there to say "it was a bubble again like always"?

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september 2008 by ignatz

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Diamond and Kashyap on the Recent Financial Upheavals - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

The otherwise annoying Freakonomics people with a good summary

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september 2008 by ignatz

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