Monthly Archives: July 2008

doha trade talks collapse: it matters, and it’s bad for us

July 30, 2008 – 11:22 pm

It started popping up in the news throughout Tuesday, and got the front-page writeup Wednesday: after 7 years of trying, the Doha round of free trade talks have been declared over with zero agreed on.
The NYTimes and others write in detail about what the US says on one side, and what India and China say [...]

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some good web finds last week: zembly platform, startup ideas, a postmortem

July 27, 2008 – 9:42 pm

If you have been following my friendfeed, you may have noticed I decided sharing my delicious links there was overkill, so I stopped.  Instead, I’m going to try summing up a few interesting blog posts I’ve read and websites I’ve seen this past week.  I may stick to this, I may do it more often, [...]

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finally, good statistics: have any mutual fund managers beaten the market?

July 14, 2008 – 11:43 am

We’ve all heard it a number of places over the years, I imagine: actively-managed funds basically never beat the market anymore.  But a study published about a year ago finally sounds like it used the right statistics to answer the question.  It’s covered in this NYT article: The Prescient Are Few.
Here are some excerpts, if [...]

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reblog: president bush pardons himself via congress for potential warcrimes

July 11, 2008 – 2:31 pm

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In this video, we learn about some pending legislation to retroactively pardon the entire Bush administration for certain violations of the Geneva Conventions starting 9/11/01.
via blurb.rahmin.com - press the button - President BUSH PARDON’s HIMSELF via congress for… ‏

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studies show shorter blog posts are the new hip thing

July 11, 2008 – 2:16 pm

I’ve initimidated myself out of posting by writing such long posts recently.  That’s about to change.  I may write a long one occasionally, but generally I’ll be posting more links, videos, and shorter thoughts.  I enjoy getting those thoughts from my friends and people I follow through rss from their blogs, and I think I’ll [...]

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