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An interesting and dismaying thing is happening: more and more, the courts are ruling in favor of the alleged insider traders. A little over a year ago, the Second Circuit of Appeals, which oversees New York, Connecticut and Vermont, quite possibly the land of moneyed men, sided with two hedge fund traders and overturned a…
I chanced upon an FP&A site through LinkedIn. It looks like an interesting site and I will try to remember to go back every now and then. The site is fpa-trends.com. The topic about advanced data analytics caught my eye but the one the really pulled me in is the post about the ideal FP&A…
More bad behavior but this time from the government and not from the usual bad guys. The situation in Flint, Michigan is really sad and portends grave long-term consequences. The kids will probably grow up disadvantaged for the rest their lives. I did read other headlines that suggest that other cities face the same poor quality…
I read a post by Seth Godin about 2 weeks ago (his post is dated January 19, 2016) and it reminded me of back when I used to work at SAIC. He wrote about working on the urgent things that satisfies the short-term but does nothing for the important long-term. While he was really talking about…
“Ayn Rand’s ‘philosophy’ is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society…To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind, not only immoral, but evil” – Gore Vidal. “Thus did a handful…
I read last night that a bunch of wealthy folks are in a stiff battle with Puerto Rico to prevent the country from declaring bankruptcy. And it sounds like the wealthy folks are predominantly hedge fund managers trying to protect there 20% return. I have to admit that my first instinct was to vilify the hedge…
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