April 2008
14 posts
“Tax-return filers who earned between $200,000 and $10 million gave only 0.48% of...”
– WSJ
Current Firefox Tabs
Automatic drawing for books on Facebook (techcrunch)
Amazon’s AWS users are NOT tiny little startups (techcrunch)
As-yet-unseen job cuts are a-comin’ (Reuters)
Frontiers of Real-Time Data Analysis (SSRN)
A simple explanation of bank exposures to CDOs (FT)
Growth of Dark Pools May Obsure Market Prices (Kristina Cooke; Reuters)
“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague,...”
– J. Tukey (1962), Annals of Mathematics and Statistics 33: 1-67 (via Paul Kedrosky)
Up and Then Down
I’m halfway through a fantastic article in this week’s New Yorker:
The Otis Elevator Company, the world’s oldest and biggest elevator manufacturer, claims that its products carry the equivalent of the world’s population every five days. As the world urbanizes—every year, in developing countries, sixty million people move into cities—the numbers will go up, and up and down.
What a difference a phrasing makes
Obama’s eloquence is his safety net in this campaign. His essay on race (full text) articulates the difficult point that economic frustrations manifest as racism thoughout our history through to today. The first quote is from that speech. The second, from a newly controversial statement made last Sunday.
Most working- and middle-class white Americans don’t feel that they have been...
Minding My Comped Silverjet Tickets
Silverjet Airlines, the nice folks who enjoy giving me and my friends business class tickets to London, are contemplating a takeover bid. There’s certainly “mixed” opinion of their future. From the Bloomberg story:
“We would use this as an opportunity to sell,” Daniel Stewart’s Stoddart said in a note. “If any prospective bidder does proper due...
Current Firefox Tabs
Inside a Panic at E*Trade (CNN)
Seth Godin’s Next Fundraiser; Acumen Fund (his blog)
Tellico - a collection manager for KDE (periapsis)
Financial Caution for Tech in Silicon Valley (NYTimes)
Study Gives High Marksto U.S. Internet (NYTimes)
Congenstion Pricing & Bloomberg (NYTimes op-ed)
