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The dry index is a poor predictor of future economic health or stock market returns http://greyenlightenment.com/economics-myths-part-7-the-balt... The index was flat in the 80' …

The rise of indexing parallels the cutthroat, winner-take -all nature of the post-2008 stock market and economy where winners like Google, Amazon, Visa, and Facebook, for example, are bid higher and h…

I've heard of this argument. 'Why do the rich need so much money? Why not just create a 'wealth cap'? The problem is, capitalism is about incentives. When you create a negative inc…

People who are rich should not have to prove they are sufficiently empathetic. There's a saying, 'offence is taken, not given'.

Maybe we need to come to terms with the fact that the <a http://greyenlightenment.com/the-meritocracy-we-dont-underst... meritocracy is one stratified by IQ, with some having the c…

What is often forgotten or ignored are all of the people globalization helps lift up

Haven't we been 'expecting' this since 2012, yet the biggest, most successful unicorns keep going up in value. For all the hype and doom about Square stock, the price is back to where i…

you may be waiting awhile

As if the government does a better job managing money, which is why the concept of 'exit' is appealing to some in Silicon Valley. New technologies emerge from bubbles. The only way to do awa…

He says there is "blood in the water," and we are entering a 90-10 situation for the unicorn class of startups with billion-dollar valuations in which 90% of the startups will be repriced o…

There's a bubble in bubble predictions. Everyone wants their 'I told you so' fame, for some reason. I guess it's human nature to want to be right or to see the overly successful st…

It's easy to separate the potential winners from the losers though. Start-ups that deal with hardware and other physical stuff tend to fare much worse than apps and software.

On AngelList, a crowdfunding site aimed at such investors, the average valuation for a company receiving funding reached $4.9 million for two quarters last year, its highest level in five years. But …

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who would have guessed that in 2 decades he would be so successful. Bloomberg was right in the middle of the intersection of computers and trading. The timing could not have been better.

I did a search for Walmart jobs in my area ( a large metropolitan area) - zero hiring. With the exception of certain types of jobs, there has been little hiring since 2006 or so. The supply of labor v…

hmmm....I think it's more than that. Ants, bees and other insects cooperate. The defining characteristic may be an awareness of mortality, which is probably what prompted the rescue.

A lot of smart people have lost money on the belief that trends that seem unsustainable must reverse or that history must always repeat, when there are factors that can cause wildly diverging outcomes…

I'll believe it when I see actual secondary shares for major companies like Uber and Pinterest see substantial declines. Until then, this is all speculation. It's weird... It's like eve…

spread= metastatic

those are just the stats. Metastatic cancer is almost always fatal with an average survival of 2 years. That shows why more progress need to be made.

between david bowie and this, cancer seems to be the midlife killer of choice . Much process has been made in heart disease, but cancer? Not so much. Once it's spread, you're dead. (2 years …

I'm sure the domain has value. It can re-brand itself as another user-submitted content farm like Forbes and Fortune

A VC fund averages slightly better than the market, suggesting possible inefficiencies

these companies (snapchat, uber, dropbox, pinterest, etc) are rapidly growing, that's a major why

The EMH says it shouldn't matter too much. The transition from private to public adds more liquidity for traders, but in accordance to the EMH it should work both ways (50% chance of buying or se…

It's just unsubstantiated assumption, which is common when journalists cover things they have little knowledge about. If the public market can't 'absorb' it, then the prices will f…