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Unwinding Globalization

By on Monday, March 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment

JP Morgan Chase has just purchased Bear Stearns at $2 a share, an investment bank which was valued at $150 a year last year. Equity and capital markets are poised for a volatile week. The US Fed is set to make another rate cut, a desperation move, on Tuesday. This is likely to push the [...]

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This is a joke, right?

By on Friday, February 8th, 2008 | 3 Comments

When I read the first few paragraphs, I thought it might be a joke. It read: “Oxford university’s latest professor is a top Chinese expert on mathematical finance who aims to understand how markets are affected by traders’ gambling and irrational risk-taking.” This was followed by: A new chair has been created for Xunyu Zhou [...]

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Risk Is In The Eyes of the Beholder Part IV

By on Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 | 5 Comments

Yesterday, the new national aquatics center was unveiled in Beijing. This will become the venue for the leading water events of the Beijing Olympics. After the Olympics are over, it will be converted to a shopping mall for Beijing’s masses. Beijing is now the site for some of the most exciting architecture in the world. [...]

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Risk Is In The Eyes of the Beholder Part II

By on Monday, January 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Chris Masse’s excellent MidasOracle.org, which focuses mainly on prediction markets, has a posting called Journalism Failures – Big Time. The Midas Oracle article links to an article by Risk magazine nominating Societe Generale as the equity derivatives house of the year. (You better check out the link soon before the magazine’s management takes it down.) [...]

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Risk Is In The Eyes of the Beholder Part I

By on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 | 15 Comments

In the west, there is a whole industry called “risk consultancy”. Basically, this industry is built around informing large- and medium-sized corporations about risk. Originally, this was built around business risk and would answer questions like “How safe is it to invest $500M in an industrial diamond mine in the Congo (formerly Zaire)?” The consulting [...]

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