While reading this article in The Economist, the section on rising inequality leapt out at me. The newspaper suggested that technology may be to blame. This is certainly a situation that I’ve been expecting for a while. In contrast to the Singularity proposed by Vernor Vinge, I believe that as people become more educated, have [...]
Here are some more financial blogs that seem good: The Aleph Blog – Investment strategies and advice (seems pretty US-centric) The Epicurean Deal Maker – Sarchastic, sardonic and humerous insight into Wall Street Going Private – The Sardonic Memoirs of a Private Equity Professional – This is an absolutely hilarious blog about the world of [...]
There’s a great interview in Reason Magazine with economist Lant Pritchett about how stopping immigration is effectively holding countries’ citizens hostage. He argues that constraining people within artificial borders bounding countries which are economically unviable is one of the biggest sources of global inequity. Very interesting read.
This past week has been facinating in the financial markets. After a long slide downwards, the markets tumbled at the beginning of the week, and now they are bouncing back upwards. Initially the market dive looked like it was triggered by worries over the problems with the Monoline Insurers. The Fed responded by cutting interest [...]
Here are some financial blogs I like: Robert Peston at the BBC AlphaVille from the FT Calculated Risk Econbrowser I’m getting more and more information from blogs and forums these days, so I want to try and get as many diverse and informative sources as I can.
So I ended up getting iRex Technologies iLiad e-book reader. I have been using it for about a month now, and I absolutely love it! I usually switch it on so I can read it on the way to Canary Wharf (currently doing a contract out there), and leave it on the whole day. It’s [...]