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Forbes and the "Self-Made" Label

by cactus Forbes and the “Self-Made” Label I’m kinda busy these days, but this topic is small pet peeve of mine: what the heck is up with Forbes and the…

Type four win-win trading

trading which is known to be type 4 trading. Obviously not everyone is rational (who ever thought everyone was). In particular, there is a group which keeps writing papers which…

Off label drug pushers

…have to submit articles.” Off-label use of drugs is big business. According to The Wall Street Journal, “[FDA] is stepping into a high-stakes business issue, because off-label uses of prescription…

Mike sends a response to rdan on off-label drugs

…unreasonable cases, but if it is reasonable that the off-label use of the drug might have caused the damage, then the encouraged off-label use would lead to an assumption of…

LBO:Private Equity::HFT:Algorithmic Trading?

…panelists also seemed reluctant to define themselves as high frequency traders. Adam Nunes of Hudson River Trading, said his firm, founded by mathematicians, considered itself a “quantitative trading” outfit…. It…

Financial Regulation

…the aim of selling soon at a profit is socially destructive. Practiononers use the word “trading” or the phrase “active trading” to avoid the negative connotations of “speculation.” Part of…