April 2010
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With $2 Trillion In 3 Year Funding Needs By the... →
Total PIIGS funding needs (defined as the sum of debt maturities and budget deficits) over the next 3 years amount to $2 trillion. Total PIIGS funding needs in 2010 alone amount to $600 billion. Total IMF bail out capacity: around $700 billion. Sorry - it simply does not compute.
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Morten Lund about what is next ...
When asked what he thought was the next “big thing”, during a fireside chat with TechCrunch Europe editor Mike Butcher, he replied “I have no fucking clue.” He he offered the suggestion that whatever “it” is, it will be about risk, networks and following hobbies and interests. But when looking to the future, be warned: “There’s a fine line between vision and hallucination.” (via eu.tc.com)
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“By listening to each other, we have been able to partner with each other....”
– Barack Obama (video)
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“And when crisis strikes, governments need to be able to act. That’s what the...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Euro Trap - NYTimes.com (via brooksjordan)
I was an IR student in college and studied the EU extensively. I can’t recall one paragraph about disaster response policy.
Running a start-up has sure taught me to plan for the best, but prepare for the worst.
(via tedr)
There is...
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Not every Adventure is alike. (via @bussgang)
Entrepreneurs who have been successful in one field and have developed a “blueprint” for what it takes to be successful, can sometimes struggle to translate that blueprint into a new field. Therefore, they should be thoughtful about what skills and habits they should adapt to develop a new blueprint that suits the new field. […]
Harnessing and containing strong, visionary...
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“That, of course, raises the question: what is copyright really worth anymore if...”
– PDNPulse: Insult to Injury: AFP Suing Photographer It Stole Photos From
Rafer sez: AFP has come a long from way from 2005 when they sued Google for including them in Google News.
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You see who the power has when looking who writes the bills/laws. Ie in UK, the Digital Economy Bill was...
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“Match says there is no way we can generate as many relationships and dates as we...”
– Match.com No longer top dating site, sends in the lawyers. « Plenty of fish blog (via jryu)
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes (Twain). We had that a little over a year ago with Mint.com vs Intuit. Didn’t we?
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“I can only hope that Google and other search engines find betters ways to...”
– Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried (via steph)
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DIY Marketing Blog: Landing Pages: The first... →
Landing pages are a somewhat odd member of the web page family. Everyone has heard of them, everyone has used them, but it’s not always clear why they are valuable. Some of the definitions I’ve seen, such as this one I found the other day: “Landing pages are a targeted page with a concrete goal”…
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Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme →
mattlehrer:
But, then, how is Facebook so profitable? Are they lying? No. They are growing. More and more people get on Facebook, and more and more businesses hear about how many people are on Facebook. It seems like a huge opportunity. So each business individually and in turn experiments with Facebook ads. They spend hundreds or thousands or more on Facebook ads. At the end of the first run,...
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Robert Reich: Swiftboating Finance Reform →
Republicans are blocking a Senate vote on the Dodd bill, seeking to build public support by misleading the public. They’re claiming to want a stronger bill when in fact they’re doing the Street’s bidding by seeking a weaker one.
Evidence of their tactics comes in the form of a shady…
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“The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority;...”
– H. Gordon Selfridge, American-British retail magnate via today’s Real Estate Investment SmartBrief (via mattlehrer) (via mikehudack)
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“Realize that a startup puts you on an emotional rollercoaster unlike anything...”
– Marc Andreessen
via mikehudack : saadiq
What he said. This is unlike anything I’ve ever done. Ever.
(via msg)
(via evangotlib)
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“The neutral communications medium is essential to our society. It is the basis...”
– Tim Berners-Lee (via azspot)
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What is a synthetic CDO? (via NPR) →
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What is a synthetic CDO? (via NPR) →
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Synthetic CDO - investment vehicle created out of...
But was it a sensible thing to do? Does the public have any interest in investment banks behaving like this? The answer to both questions is “no”.
The sum effect of this transaction was to increase the risk and instability of the financial system. The banks who accepted the bet were more exposed than they had been in the first place. Caveat emptor might apply. They were big financial...
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Charges of SEC against Goldman Sachs looks more...
The problem is that the SEC’s case appears – from what’s publically available – to be very weak. Goldman Sachs flatly denies that [Mr.] Tourre misled ACA about Paulson’s role as an investor in the transaction. It also points out that ACA itself had direct discussions with the Paulson hedge fund about what to include in the CDO’s virtual-portfolio, and that the final...
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Daily Patricia: Facebook Flirts With Suicide,... →
“The problem here is that Facebook definitely did not get users’ consent to do this. Yes, there’s an option to turn off Instant Personalization in Facebook’s privacy settings. And yes, whenever you visit one of these Instantly Personalized sites there’s a bar at the top of the screen that you can…
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P.S. - The key to succeeding over platforms is like anything else in business:...
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Someone is looking for co-founder with expertise... →
via http://answers.onstartups.com
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The Undressing of Alan Greenspan
If the Brookings Institute graded papers, Greenspan deserved the dunce cap. Exhibit 18 conforms to his claim. The chart shows adjustable-rate mortgages peaking at a volume of $250 billion per quarter in early 2004 (data from the Mortgage Bankers Association). It does not show, nor does the Old Pretender mention, that in today’s Dust Bowl sections of the country, the volume of adjustable-rate...
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Pope Benedict’s failure in mission-driven... →
I want to be absolutely clear: I am not blaming the fact of the Vatican’s pedophile crisis on the Pope. But the Vatican leadership, including the Pope, has clearly failed to understand, respond to, and solve the worst moral and organizational crisis to hit the Church in centuries — and the leadership allowed the crisis to fester and grow for decades. Aren’t leaders supposed to anticipate crises...
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Buffett Lobbying Senate Committee to Avoid... →
Warren Buffett is lobbying the U.S. Senate to avoid derivatives reforms that would require, among other things, financial institutions to put up collateral to cover potential losses.
According to the WSJ, Buffett, who has referred to derivatives as “financial weapons of mass destruction,” is leaning on Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson to help him with an exemption that would potentially help...
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Legal analysis by EFF of the seemingly unlawful... →
soupsoup:
Under California and federal law, this warrant should never have issued. First, California Penal Code Section 1524(g) provides that “[n]o warrant shall issue for any item or items described in Section 1070 of the Evidence Code.” Section 1070 is California’s reporter’s shield provision (which has since been elevated to Article I, § 2(b) of the California Constitution). The items...
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Running a little company is frickin' frightening
3. I don’t know anything about marketing/sales/accounting/software/websites/Twitter/blogging. These other people seem to know everything. I don’t know enough. 4. How will anyone ever find out about me? The Internet is too big. […]
9. My website looks like ass. Everyone’s going to know I’m small.
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Here’s mindset for dealing with all the examples...
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5 recent Economic Papers I liked. (via ssrn.com)
Economists, Crises and Cartoons
Spreading the Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired by Joe the Plumber
The Politics of Monetary Policy
The Music of Social Intercourse: Synchrony in Adam Smith
Raising vs. Leveling in the Social Organization of Welfare
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“The four bad habits that will kill you faster, according to a study of about...”
– New Study Links Fun With Death - The Awl (via peterwknox)
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robgo.org: Top 3 Things I Learned as a VC →
This past Friday was my last day at Spark Capital.
It has been a privilege to be a part of this team. I have grown in ways that I didn’t expect, and was glad to be part of a firm that allowed me to interact with such wonderful entrepreneurs and early stage investors each day. I owe a lot to…
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Laptop and/or iPad distraction in classroom?
Two years ago, Carrie B. Fried, a psychology professor at Winona State University in Minnesota, studied the effect of laptops on learning. She discovered that computers were a significant distraction in class and that using laptops negatively affected students. The students admitted that they learned less and performed poorly compared with those who didn’t use them during class.
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Studio 20 Director at 140 Characters
studio20nyu:
Photo by Jay Bryant
Studio 20 Director Jay Rosen spoke on the topic of the self-informing public at the 140 Characters conference. Watch the video of his talk.
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Don't rely on the Lottery aka adVenture Capital...
The way the system works is that if you build something of value, the money will find you. Yes, there is a catch-22: you need seed financing, but no one will give you a cent until you have a marketable product and your company is producing revenue—which means that you don’t really need the money. But that’s the way it goes. Ironically, raising millions of dollars is usually easier than raising...
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