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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…
Well, well, well, well…the notorious CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals has been arrested for fraud related to his old bankrupt hedge fund company. Apparently he has been shifting money from his old drug company Retrophin to the investors of the old hedge fund company. This guy is a real character. I almost think he is a type of…
Yesterday, my company, or rather the company that I work for, had their annual Christmas Service where we do some form of beautification for a non-profit organization or for the disadvantaged. This year was an outdoor beautification project for the KIPP school that helps disadvantaged children receive the education they need to succeed and get…
I read an article yesterday that discusses the unemployment rate and what it really means. Right now, it stands at about 5% and the net number of hiring in November was around 211K. On the surface, those numbers sound really great but a number of writers have pointed out that if you include those who…
After spending 4 or 5 weeks on developing ideas for a dashboard for an upcoming huge project, I finally have a rudimentary dashboard. With that experience behind me, here are some ideas of what to do when you are given a project to pull together something. 1. If you can, find out what the goal is. In my…
I’m still reading the book Future Smart and I’m reading chapter “Chapter 13: Reinventing Education – the Future of Learning”. He does the usual lamenting of the dire state of education and how it is not preparing children for the new technological future. He forecasts a future of nations falling behind and its people mired…
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