August 2009
9 posts
“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out....”
– Steve Jobs (via jacks)
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“You have to understand, we’re in the middle of a recession here. The making of...”
– A comment on the NYTimes.
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Government intervention is pushing cyclical stock...
And there certainly would be no rush to react if low U.S. interest rates fueled bubbles outside U.S. borders; that, after all, would be the responsibility of foreign policymakers.
Every stock market and commodities market in the world is on record monthly highs (9-12 months highs). Some money of the bailout and government intervention has to be speculated somewhere.
To be sure, these trades...
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Creditcrunch explained for the Queen ...
“In summary, Your Majesty, the failure to foresee the timing, extent and severity of the crisis and to head it off, while it had many causes, was principally a failure of the collective imagination of many bright people, both in this country and internationally, to understand the risks to the system as a whole.”
[U]nconventional ideas - about how herd psychology and bouts of...
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“Never bet what you can’t afford to lose.”
– Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Telegraph.co.uk.
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Generation Y And Their Music.
I think there is a new generation of new artists up and comming which are in their 20s! The Generation Y! Think of Madonna in her early career in the 80’s with ‘Like A Virgin’ just when I was born. Be honest you know the text and the melody.
… a new wave of female artists is crashing against the shoreline of the music industry, bringing with it a tide of glorious...
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“Some lessons we learn the hard way
Some lessons don’t come easy...”
– Lyrics from - ‘Melody Gardot- Some Lessons’ 