Category Archives: Money

How to think like a hedge fund manager

By Demian Perry | Published: 21 Oct 2010

I’ve been on an investing book kick lately, and I recently read Joel Greenblatt’s classic (from the 90s), You Can Be A Stock Market Genius. Michael Lewis mentioned the book more than once in The Big Short, indicating that it was the manual for the handful of financial whizzes who predicted the near-collapse of capitalism [...]

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Risk: an unconventional approach

By Demian Perry | Published: 10 Jul 2010

The comedian Robert “Bobcat” Goldthwaite had a routine about bad ideas, like the day someone decided to cook with an open flame on the Hindenburg. Or, in all seriousness, someone decided that it was a good idea to board an airship attached to a giant ball of flammable gas. What drives humans to make such [...]

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Why do wages rise in a recession?

By Demian Perry | Published: 07 Sep 2009

This morning, Rutgers University released its Labor Scorecard, which confirmed the high unemployment figures published by the Labor Department earlier this week. Someone in the PR department at Rutgers caught this report on its way out the door and added a little spice to the press release, noting that “though unemployment has risen in 2009 [...]

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