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it is better to have cash on hand in case their own asset-backed securities become worthless. Even lending it to a __perfect borrower__ is riskier in that case, because even if the…

loan amounts are not decreasing Yes. But because of decreased supply, the cost of borrowing is higher now.

No. It's not the same thing. Eg. Usually I loan out $1 billion. But now, my risk appetite is smaller because of my desire for a smaller leveraged balance sheet, hence i will loan o…

I think it's time to dismiss one of the falsehoods perpetuated by MSM and this article: that the main reason why the credit market is seizing is because banks do not trust each oth…

And live under the rule of Palin? Oh god no!

Invest in soft commodities. World population is still growing and people still need to eat. Oh yes. Just in case it gets ugly. Attend some MMA classes and load up on ammo.

Is there a better video search engine that crawls the entire web instead of just the major video streaming sites? All the major search engines like Truveo, Blinkx etc. simply aggre…

I must say sir. That is brilliant. $15/mth for a pseudo realtime quote API is dirt cheap.

Haha. Yeah. That's why i inserted the word 'almost' before 'risk-free'

Not for MS. The probability of MS getting nationalized or going bankrupt is 90%. So it's 0.9 * 0 + 0.1 * 3 = 0.3 = -70%. Whoops.

Long agricultural commodities Short equities

Yes. That's what we did. But the memory usage was still higher than the PHP option.

There's a reason why those trailing P/E are lows. The E will decrease drastically in the future. You have to make really good guesstimate on what the E will be in the future before…

An almost risk-free way to money in the stock market is to put most of your money in fixed income while apportioning a small % in long dated options. Eg. you think Morgan Stanley i…

Here is my experience. I used Rails for one project of mine that requires processing of millions of data rows. Because the Rails ORM create an object for each data row, we end up u…

try quotemedia, esignal etc.

i use IB as my broker too. I don't think they offer data sales separately.

I'm going to call it right here right now: Facebook will be irrelevant 3 years from now.

There's a free A/B testing app offered by Google http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer/

You are spot on. All these manifestations are the by-products of deleveraging It's happening everywhere. Housing, equity, bond, commodities etc. The term "There's always a bull mar…

Ever thought of moving back to starting up again?