Article of the week (26/2009): The Science of Economic Bubbles and Busts

Posted on Jun 27, 2009 in Finance This week’s article is The Science of Economic Bubbles and Busts by Gary Stix. Following is a small excerpt: It has all the makings of a classic B movie scene. A gunman puts a pistol to the victim’s forehead, and the screen fades to black before a loud bang is heard. A forensic specialist who traces the bullet’s trajectory would see it traversing the brain’s prefrontal cortex—a central...
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Article of the week (25/2009): Have stock markets run away from reality?

Posted on Jun 19, 2009 in Finance This week’s article is Have stock markets run away from reality? by Prieur du Plessis. Following is a small excerpt: The predictions of the members of the Barron’s mid-year Roundtable discussion over the weekend were in agreement that the March lows of the stock markets would not be broken. This reminded me of one of the famous “Investment Rules” of Bob Farrell, legendary former chief...
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Google Wave

Posted on Jun 16, 2009 in Blog Google recently introduced their new technology marvel Google Wave what will most likely be nick named Web 3.0 or something similar. Here is a 80 minute presentation that explains the phenomena: For those that don’t want to waste 80 minutes watching the video here are small excepts from LifeHacker: Inline Replies First the simple stuff. Google says Wave is what email would be if it were...
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Straight to your iPod – June 2009

Posted on Jun 14, 2009 in Music In this month’s music recommendations I’d like to talk about two of my favorite Icelandic albums in the last few years. Emotional from Trabant is the first one and is a varied mix of rock, pop and electronic music that comes together in a utterly brilliant album. Trabant’s songs all have a distinctive feel to them ranging from a overwhelming onset of warm...
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Terminator Salvation

Posted on Jun 13, 2009 in Movies I saw Terminator Salvation last weekend. The fourth Terminator movie takes place in the year 2018. Each of the previous Terminator movies has changed the future in different ways, each one creates a new timeline and it comes most apparent in this one. The original Judgement Day in T1 was in 1997 but following the changes to the timeline in T2 and T3 Judgement Day happened in 2004 resulting in the...
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