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2008.09.20: How Fast Can You Start an ETF?
2008.09.19: The Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard
2008.08.25: Cried all the Way to the Annual Meeting
2008.08.09: Cities, Ambition, Distortion
2008.06.22: Pure Trades
2008.06.22: Two studies I'd like to see
2008.06.21: Pump and Dump
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2008.06.18: Adams Golf: Follow-up
2008.06.17: The Sub-Super SIV
2008.06.15: Google Query Question
2008.06.14: Geneen and Adams Golf
2008.06.07: Maxwell
2008.05.09: Concentrate!
2008.04.10: What is Congress Doing About the Bubble?
2008.04.09: Meredith Whitney is the Most Overrated Analyst on Wall Street
2008.04.09: Quibbles
2008.03.17: Another use for political betting markets
2008.03.10: A Few Thoughts on the Spitzer Matter
2008.03.06: Right the Wrong Way
2008.03.04: Where has all the leverage gone?
2008.03.04: Back to their roots
2008.03.03: Honor Among Rogues
2008.03.02: Buying the bad-luck charm
2008.03.01: Hopefully Hypothetical
2008.02.29: 2007
2008.02.28: Game Theory and Union Busting
2008.02.28: Missing the Memo
2008.02.27: Cross-Ownership Update
2008.02.25: The Ombudstrader Lives!
2008.02.12: Software is Permanently Awful
2008.02.06: Financial statements should go to eleven
2008.01.31: 20 years too late, but...
2008.01.24: A Victimish Crime
2008.01.17: Mixed Messages
2008.01.15: I liked the Bubble so much I bought the banker
2008.01.12: When losing a nuclear war is a good sign
2008.01.10: Patent Question
2008.01.10: Translation
2008.01.03: Privatization will make the trains run on time...
2008.01.03: The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2008.01.02: Leading Indicators
2007.12.20: Keynesian Singularity
2007.12.18: The World in Four Trades
2007.12.18: Lies, Damn Lies, and Heuristics
2007.12.13: Do Illegal Luxury Goods Increase the Savings Rate?
2007.12.13: Pretension Algorithm
2007.12.07: This is Why "Hoover" is a Byword for "Rapid Economic Recovery"
2007.12.05: Using Reinsurance to Hedge Against Unscrupulous Carbon Offset Companies
2007.12.03: Paul Krugman is Superfluous
2007.12.03: What's Going on in Tom Tomorrow's Head
2007.12.03: Campaign Finance Reform Reform Update
2007.12.02: Interlude: On Bad Terms
2007.11.26: C-BASS is Poison
2007.11.21: Thought Experiment
2007.11.14: Wow
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2007.11.12: Why Extra Risk Doesn't Pay Extra: The Beta Paradox
2007.11.09: Decile Arbitrage?
2007.11.08: Time to buy SIV paper
2007.11.07: The Kicker
2007.11.06: Alpha is Hiding in the Delta
2007.11.05: She's no Shoeshine Boy, But...
2007.11.01: Ron Paul Update
2007.11.01: A little more on why applications suck
2007.11.01: Fact Imitates (Science) Fiction
2007.11.01: Scott Adams can't do journalism or economics
2007.10.31: Efficient Markets in Legislation?
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2007.10.25: Private-Sector Manhattan Projects
2007.10.22: The Bizarre Math of Cross-Ownership
2007.10.22: Startup Success Benchmark: Have You Made Your Users Stupid?
2007.10.21: Open-Source Panacea?
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2007.10.11: Footprint
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2007.10.10: Back-Door Tax Reform
2007.10.09: Bad Economics Doesn't Last
2007.10.02: Trivia
2007.10.02: Again
2007.09.29: College, for profit? From whom?
2007.09.28: "Soft Landing" Consultants
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2007.09.27: Keeping up with the Cohens
2007.09.26: What Happens When Housing is Cheap?
2007.09.26: Quick, Sinister Question
2007.09.25: Tidbit
2007.09.24: I Liked the Book so Much I Bought the Company
2007.09.24: This is Surprisingly Rare
2007.09.23: Wealth and Democracy: A Balanced Review, With Policy Suggestions
2007.09.21: HAR: A business plus a windfall is worth less than just a business?
2007.09.20: Goldman Sachs is still the best; doesn't need to hire the best
2007.09.14: Topical History
2007.09.14: The Puritan Paradox
2007.09.14: Strings Attached
2007.09.14: What Success Looks Like in Advance
2007.09.14: Swervin' Mervin
2007.09.14: That's One Way to Put It...
2007.09.13: Should The Risk Premium Matter?
2007.09.13: Bigger Raises Through Obfuscation
2007.09.13: Bear Stearns is Not In Play
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2007.09.12: Someone out There is Very Clever...
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2007.09.12: Just What we Need
2007.09.12: The Nerd Boom
2007.09.11: The Quants are Laughing Behind our Backs
2007.09.11: Demographics and Finance
2007.09.11: Why Does Merger Arbitrage Still Work?
2007.09.11: A Credibility Problem
2007.09.11: A Bad Sign
2007.09.10: Facebook: Let's Make a Deal
2007.09.10: Anatomy of a Collapse, '84 Edition
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2007.09.10: What can the Crash of 1907 and the Rise of Hedge Funds Teach us About Curing Cancer?
2007.09.10: The Blender
2007.09.10: Will it Ever End?
2007.09.10: Do CDOs Follow Gresham's Law?
2007.09.10: Ready for the Next Bubble?
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2007.09.07: Welcome to the Green Zone?
2007.09.07: Brand-Name Generics
2007.09.07: Dealbreaker, Busted
2007.09.07: Funded
2007.09.07: Rated
2007.09.06: No Neutrality
2007.09.06: Apple Brings the Lemons and Makes the Lemonade
2007.09.06: Borrow Short, Lend Long, Bail Out
2007.09.06: The Rating Means What, Now?
2007.09.06: DB's CEO Marching to the (Delayed) Beat of a Different Ticker
2007.09.06: SIV Exposure, Exposed
2007.09.06: The Generic Premium
2007.09.05: Survivorship Bias, Anyone?
2007.09.05: They all Deserve to Lose
2007.09.05: Limited and Regional
2007.09.05: Bloomberg isn't running -- just campaigning
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2007.09.05: New Old News
2007.09.04: The Real Long-Term
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2007.09.04: Is Microsoft the China of Software?
2007.09.04: Greensplog
2007.09.04: On the Margin
2007.09.04: Broken Windows, The Mismeasure of Money, and Other Nonsense
2007.09.04: The Ombudstrader
2007.09.04: Priorities
2007.09.02: Campaign Finance Reform Reform
2007.09.01: You've Seen Youtube Before
2007.08.30: What you want to hear?
2007.08.30: Prediction Market Crashes
2007.08.29: The Shortcut
2007.08.29: Sunk Costs
2007.08.27: Lewis the Populist
2007.08.23: The Cycle
2007.08.23: Happy Days Briefly Here Again
2007.08.22: Sawtooth
2007.08.21: A Good Sign
2007.08.21: Flight to Quality; Flight to Brand
2007.08.21: Currency Crisis, Averted
2007.08.19: Interlude: To Read
2007.08.14: Fantastic News I Didn't Mention
2007.08.13: SCO
2007.08.10: Currency Crisis
2007.08.06: Open Facebook; Myspace Anyplace; Orkut, Uncut; LinkedIn for the Left-Out
2007.08.06: Disaster
2007.08.05: The Petro: Why Nigeria's oil will trade at 200 cents on the dollar
2007.08.03: Meta: Markdown
2007.08.02: Rumors, Darwin, and Currency
2007.08.01: Synthetic Manhattan
2007.07.31: Freud Slightly, Accidentally Vindicated
2007.07.31: 130/30: Hedging Risk, or Doubling Down?
2007.07.22: Mimic
2007.07.19: Diversify by Paradigm
2007.07.18: Interlude: Boom
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2007.07.08: vator.tv Pitch
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2007.07.07: The Vanishing White Programmer
2007.07.06: Markets in Not Quite Everything
2007.07.01: WisdomTree: Apparently, you can even get index investing wrong
2007.06.27: A Bubble Continues, one Tweak at a Time
2007.06.26: The Kindergarten Report Card market
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2007.06.17: Deferred Armageddon
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2007.06.04: Meta
2007.06.04: Reputation
2007.06.02: The Last Word on Hypocrisy
2007.06.01: Incentive
2007.05.14: Conditional Donations: winner take all (for certain values of 'winner')
2007.05.01: The Tragedy of the Common: All Social Networks are Slightly Doomed
2007.04.20: When the wrong threat is the right threat.
2007.04.20: Taking *Our Posthuman Future* a Little Slow
2007.04.15: Fool me Twice...
2007.04.12: Lesser Fools
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2007.03.14: A to B: Transdisciplinary Fizzbuzz
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2007.03.12: 51/50/49: when paying extra money for worse performance is worth it
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2007.03.08: Upper Bound
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2007.03.06: Panic, Bubble
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2007.02.26: How not to get the programmer you're after
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2007.02.26: How not to get the Quant job you're after
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2007.02.13: Interlude: Hired
2007.02.13: Interlude: Home
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2007.02.03: The Quick and Clean Method for Stopping Statistical Dirty Tricks
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2007.01.28: Why is Wikipedia Launching a Tariff War?
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2007.01.26: Standing in the way of the Great Decoupling
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2007.01.25: Is Stock Picking Worth It?
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2007.01.23: iPhone for you; ourPhone for the rest of us
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2007.01.17: The Sharpe Ratio is Bad Math
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2007.01.05: Capitalism
2007.01.04: Economics
2007.01.04: Marxism
2007.01.04: Net Neutrality
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2007.01.03: Net Neutrality and the ICC
2006.12.30: Bad Timing
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2006.12.14: Dodging the Value Trap
2006.12.13: Letters to a Young Contrarian
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2006.12.13: Friends, Enemies, Facts, and Krugman
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2006.12.13: More on Hiring Me...
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2006.12.11: Michael Lewis' Outraged Shell Game
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2006.12.09: Interlude: Mugged
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2006.12.05: Adopt a Fallacy
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2006.12.02: Green Beards, Dot Coms, and Tech-o-Trons
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2006.11.30: Nothing is Sacred
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2006.11.30: In case you've noticed...
2006.11.29: The New Yorker's James Surowieki:
2006.11.29: The WSJ notes that WisdomTree
2006.11.28: I haven't followed this story
2006.11.28: TradeKing notes that Rudy Giuliani's
2006.11.28: Computer Associates: America's most dysfunctional
2006.11.28: Amazing. Orkut, Google's social networking
2006.11.27: Dealbreaker notes that traders are
2006.11.27: TradeKing laments the fact that
2006.11.27: Paul Kedrosky finds someone who
2006.11.26: Beating the odds in 2008; Changing the game in 2012?
2006.11.26: Dune Capital, a hedge fund
2006.11.26: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan has a list
2006.11.26: Jeff Bezos reviewed Cory Doctorow's
2006.11.26: Haven't they heard of the
2006.11.26: Two students are suing non-profit
2006.11.26: I've just joined Ripple, a
2006.11.26: Why doesn't Apple support OpenOffice?
2006.11.26: Tim Harford on the economics
2006.11.26: Maoxian posts an amusing piece
2006.11.26: Digg's incredibly blasé and inarticulate
2006.11.26: Via The Big Picture, this
2006.11.26: Ray Kurzweil is starting a
2006.11.25: About the Author (and his blogs)
2006.11.24: Moving!

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