I have just finished leisurely reading Tom Standage's book The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers. Standage discusses the creation and development of the telegraph system and how it revolutionized communication in the 19th century. The book claims that modern Internet users are in many ways the
I have just finished reading the best financial book ever, and I have read most of them. It is The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Harvard professor Niall Ferguson. It gives you a great explanation of how the broad sweep of history delivered us to the doorstep of today’s crisis.
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One of the unfortunate aspects of the pandemic has been a tenfold increase in online fraud. I get a dozen phishing attacks a day pretending to be Walmart, the Bank of America, and Amazon. And I never click on anything from Apple asking me to change my ID and password. The crooks are just getting
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The original purpose of this letter was to build a database of ideas to draw on in the management of my own hedge fund. When a certain trade comes into play, I merely type in the symbol, name, currency, or commodity into the search box, and the entire fundamental argument in favor of that position
When I visited the local Safeway over the weekend, I was snared by some green uniformed pre-teens, backed by beaming mothers behind a card table selling Girl Scout cookies. I was a pushover. I walked away with a bag of Thin Mints, Lemon Chalet Creams, Do-Si-Dos, and Tagalongs. I have to confess a lifetime addiction
I spent a sad and depressing but highly instructional evening with Dr. Stephen Greenspan, who had lost most of his personal fortune with Bernie Madoff. The University of Connecticut psychology professor had poured the bulk of his savings into Sandra Mansky's Tremont feeder fund; receiving convincing trade confirms and rock-solid custody statements from the Bank
The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader is read in 140 counties. About a quarter of our readers run the letter through a Google Translator before reading. That has created a problem. Stock trading is probably the most slang and acronym-ridden profession on the planet, second only to the United States Marine Corps. (Semper