Finance
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Gary Edwin Anderson

Call money began to dry up during the decline, and rates rose, forcing traders to scramble for capital to protect their margined long positions. Livermore became convinced that the market ...
( Category: Investing March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-04 | Author:Sylvain Bouteillé & Diane Coogan-Pushner

ORGANIZATIONAL SET-UP AND STAFFING Credit portfolio management is either a corporate function attached to the chief risk officer or part of a business unit like investment banking or capital markets, ...
( Category: Finance March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb [Taleb, Nassim Nicholas]

– Almutanabbi boasted that he was the greatest of all Arab poets, but he said so in the greatest of all Arab poems. – Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without ...
( Category: Quotations March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:John Coates [Coates, John]

THE WINNER EFFECT The euphoria, overconfidence and heightened appetite for risk that grip traders during a bull market may result from a phenomenon known in biology as ‘the winner effect’. ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2006-03-25 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nine • IT IS EASIER TO BUY AND SELL THAN FRY AN EGG Some technical extensions of the survivorship bias. On the distribution of “coincidences” in life. It is preferable ...
( Category: Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:James Montier

Figure 28.3 Top and bottom value decile performance using EBIT/EV plus ROC. Source: DrKW Macro research. WHAT ABOUT THE LONG/SHORT VIEW? So far we have really only concerned ourselves with ...
( Category: Applied Psychology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Christopher Steiner

TO BUILD CUNNING WITH CODE Sandholm is an expert in game theory, the field of math concerning complex problems that include unknown variables and multiple parties with differing interests. Game ...
( Category: Computer Simulation March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:James Owen Weatherall

The ideas at the heart of Farmer’s and Packard’s work were first developed by a man named Edward Lorenz. As a young boy, Lorenz thought he wanted to be a ...
( Category: Mathematical Physics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Mike Dash [Dash, Mike]

When selling in het ootje, this same figure was sketched on the slates of each member of the college. A florist who wished to dispose of some bulbs would write ...
( Category: Private Equity March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff [Reinhart, Carmen M. & Rogoff, Kenneth]

Undoing Domestic Dollarization We have shown that reducing inflation is generally not sufficient to undo domestic dollarization, at least at horizons of more than five years. Nevertheless, some countries have ...
( Category: Economic History March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:William K. Black

Wright’s hopes for good publicity over his purported decision to support the $15 billion recap turned sour. THE MAY MASSACRE We could compete with the league’s professional lobbyists when the ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Nouriel Roubini

Chapter 8 First Steps It’s a truism that crises go hand in hand with regulation and reform of the financial system. The near-death experience of a financial crisis pushes many ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Michael J. Casey [Casey, Michael J.]

The Circular Relationship “I feel like a weatherman in California. Every day is sunny,” said U.S. government bond strategist William O’Donnell when I visited RBS’s Stamford trading floor on November ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-02 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff [Rushkoff, Douglas]

The Real World Back in the 1960s, the psychologist Stanley Milgram was horrified and inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who engineered the transport of Jews to Nazi death ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff [Rushkoff, Douglas]

Central Currency The economy in which we all participate is no more natural than the game scenarios John Nash set up to test the Rand Corporation’s secretaries. It is a ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 26,2014 )