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LIBOR refers to a package or rates of which the US Dollar 3 month Interbank offer rate is the most famous. If the Bank of England wanted to control this rate, they would have to co…

Maybe they could just write a check to electrify the caltrain a few years faster: http://sonic.net/~mly/Caltrain-Electrification/electrificati... . I never got why it has taken CA …

black-scholes also assumes the ability to dynamically, instantaneously hedge with very low transaction costs I recall. The market-maker has to charge even more to recover costs in …

I suppose you feel the same way about TV ads?

Actually, when entities regulate their employees' trades in public and non-public equities, they typically also require pre-clearance for an member of one's household. At least tha…

I think the dealership model in general creates a bad experience for customers. I highly respect Apple for their single price policy. Rarely do any of their products go on sale. Ou…

Obviously speed and implementation details matter significantly. Your firm may have a better backend or superior code that allows the strategy to work better. Much of finance is wo…

Excuse my pedanticism, but QCOM's market cap has more to do with their intellectual property connected to CDMA, 3G, and LTE standards than anything else.

Commercial real estate often operates with longterm leases and sometimes pre-defined renewal options. It is quite possible this restaurant signed a ten year lease in the shambles o…

Perhaps they want to sell the x86 business and focus on the emerging ARM/alternative architecture business. I wonder what sort of non-compete the deal would include.

I totally agree. Comcast is not the worst. My parents happen to live in an area serviced by a ma and pop cable company (Service Electric Cablevision). 20/2 internet with a 200GB ca…

Property values for tax purposes are reassessed less than once per decade in many jurisdictions in the US. This is true on the downside also. In some cases, houses sell for multipl…

You should read about transfer pricing. In many cases it is entirely possible to assign where a large firm's income is made for tax purposes by internally transferring intellectual…

I think many exchanges actually already do this, with a rebate provided for actually orders that are executed. The idea being that it is fine to cancel five orders for every one fi…

I take issue with how this article represents Lance Armstrong's doping as a fact. He never tested positive. From what I understand, someone just testified that they saw him shootin…

It looks like if you preorder by September 14 you can avoid sales tax in CA! I checked on some other preorder items that will not ship before Amazon starts charging CA tax.

According to David Pogue Apple will have a new Mac Pro, possibly in 2013: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/an-explanation-of-...

In all seriousness, I am not sure Steve cares. He had a obsessive dedication to the product and the game. Bill Gates used technology to get to the point where he had enough wealth …

Let me get this straight because I think this is what other sources are implying: HBO sells a license to their channels to the cable companies for a flat fee. The cable providers t…

The WSJ has an interesting article on Groupon today also. Actually, it is more of an excerpt from "Groupon's Biggest Deal Ever" ( http://www.amazon.com/Groupons-Biggest-Deal-Ever-U…

Yes, but then that bogus certificate is in the wild. Once once someone has a copy of a bogus certificate, then they can prove that that CA is corrupt. That CA loses its business mo…

Yes, but that would be likely detected, and the CA that had its private key stolen or coerced for government use would be exposed nonrepudiatably. All browser makers would immediat…

I am totally naive to these cat and mouse games, but why does not Google just force SSL in China? They would have to turn off the partial searches feature, which has been shown to …

The same is true of most if not all hospitals in the US to my understanding. They cannot turn away patients in the emergency room for ability to pay. Still, the hospital can try to…

Read the article. He is complaining about how the casino operated, not how he bet. One of the most crucial piecing of information in professional trading is knowing your exact risk…