Japan's Largest Private Equity Firm? The Mob (1)
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David Enke submits: There is an interesting article in the Time Online (London). Apparently, Japan's powerful yakuza organized crime syndicates are moving away from old-fashion crimes of drugs and prostitution and are increasingly launching an assault on Japan's financial markets. Studies estimate that there are already hundreds of listed companies that may have some mob connections. Using "front companies," organization have become active traders in listed Japanese shares and in some cases own large positions.Of ...
Trading Volume (1)
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Volume: Always Second to PriceVolume analysis can supply us with important information regarding the conviction of the buyers and sellers in a market, but it is important to remember that it comes second to price, as in the end price is the only thing that pays. There are many instances where a stock will rally on lower-than-average volume, and many participants, afraid a low-volume move will not be sustained, will distrust the move and miss ...
Marc Jacobs profile (2)
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Nice profile of fashion designer Marc Jacobs, creative head of Louis Vuitton, in the New Yorker this week. Jacobs used to be a chunky unfashionable pasty-white kind of guy but has recently started dressing the part and now looks like he could model for one of LV's magazine ads. Jacobs walked outside to the back garden, to take in the evening amid the boxwood. "I like the fact that people are sort of commenting on ...
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Christopher Edwards said:
No. No. Shame is quite obviously an important ethical tool. And keeps is from posing in our underwear for the New Yorker. More shame, less stupidity please.
Get In Shape With Little or No Equipment [Fitness] (63)
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Many people are under the impression improved health and fitness requires a costly gym membership or home exercise equipment. The consummate minimalist in all endeavors including fitness, Leo of the blog Zen Habits has put together a list of exercises that are heavy on results but light on equipment. It takes no equipment to get a great workout and get in shape, and with one or two pieces of simple equipment, you can turn that ...
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Chadd said:
Today I realized how out of shape I am...just 4 months to the 30th birthday...ShovelGlove? Sounds silly
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Mark said:
Somebody do all of this for me, please.
Rules for Living from Nassim Taleb (7)
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The Author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan has some suggestions for you:Taleb's top life tips 1. Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic. 2. Go to parties. You can’t even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues. 3. It’s ...
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Jackson said:
Some good points ... don't bother with the video, it's just a recital of the points.
Keys to Successful Trading and Investing: The Company You Keep (1)
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I've been reading Katherine Burton's book Hedge Hunters, which is an interesting collection of interviews with leading hedge fund money managers. One of the goals of the interviews is to dissect what makes these very successful traders and investors tick. The book's findings very much fit with my own experience in working with professional traders: there is no universal personality pattern or trading style associated with success, but there are common features exhibited by those ...
Training Successful Traders: The New Breed of Proprietary Trading Firm (1)
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Increasingly, I'm coming across prop firms that are succeeding by investing in training their traders. These firms tend to be owned and operated by successful traders with a passion for teaching their skills to others. It's a great win-win: the firm wins by earning a percentage of each trader's profit; the trader wins by receiving an education you couldn't pay for.Interestingly, because veteran traders are running these training programs, they recognize the importance of both ...
Soar Above Central Park in a Balloon (3)
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Central Park may be pretty from the ground, but the view from above will give New Yorkers a whole new perspective while taking in "the brilliance of the Greensward Plan, Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux's 1858 design." The NY Post reports that starting tomorrow, helium balloon rides will be offered for just $25 a pop.The rides will be offered from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. through Aug. 22, and children 12 and under ride ...
The Eureka Hunt (11)
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This stimulating New Yorker essay (right now gated, but worth buying the issue for) focuses on where creative moments come from. Excerpt:Many stimulants, like caffeine, Adderall, and Ritalin, are taken to increase focus -- one recent poll found that nearly twenty percent of scientists and researchers regularly took prescription drugs to "enhance concentration" -- but, accordingly to Jung-Beeman and Kounios, drugs may actually make insights less likely, by sharpening the spotlight of attention and discouraging ...
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tosch said:
All this recent info about mood/happiness and brain effectiveness is bugging me because I am currently rarely in a positive state while working.
Fourteen men whose power and influence have helped to create a $2 trillion industry (1)
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he Alpha magazine has interviews with 14 hedge fund managers. June 24: Bruce Kovner, James SimonsJune 25: Julian Robertson, George Soros, Michael SteinhardtJune 26: Kenneth Griffin, Seth Klarman, David SwensenJune 27: Steven Cohen, Leon Levy, Jack NashJune 30: Louis Bacon, Alfred Winslow Jones, Paul Tudor Jones
The most beautiful suicide (113)
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On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death. The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption: On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. 'He is much better off without me ... I wouldn't make a ...
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Eduo said:
Impactante (y aún así hermosa) fotografía de Evelyn McHale, tras su suicidio en 1947, sobre la Limusina de la ONU sobre la que cayó desde el Empire State Building.
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ScorpFromHell said:
sad
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Jeff Schmidt said:
i'm inclinded to think this is fake.
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Chris said:
interesting. i've always wondered what a body would look like after a fall like that. i have to admit i thought there'd be much more...hmmm, how do i put this....splattering.
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Jake said:
You wouldn't expect her body to remain intact after such a fall...
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Kluzter said:
oh my... she looks like sleeping
Gelato Slurpdown (1)
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Suddenly, the south Village is rife with competing purveyors of creamy, melty smoothness.
Baby Talk: Jean Liedloff’s Continuum Concept (1)
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Nearly four decades ago, during a diamond hunting expedition in the jungles of South America, author Jean Liedloff met an indigenous people named the Yequana, who were/are still living largely as they did in the Stone Age. She was so taken with the Yequanas, she decided to move in with them for a couple years to study the differences between the ways in which they raised their children and the ways in which we, in ...
Race for Reservations Turns New York's Momofuku Ko Into Net Obsession (1)
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NEW YORK -- A hotshot restaurateur's playful menu and populist booking policy have cooked up an online obsession for Manhattan food freaks. David Chang's latest restaurant, Momofuku Ko, opened in March with an egalitarian concept: There's a strict no-VIP policy, and the 12 seats in the tiny eatery can be booked only through an online reservation system. "We wanted to try something different," says Chang. "We didn't want to make it for the elite." But ...
