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Prices at the pump are up nearly 9 cents in the past two weeks and a total of 18 cents in the past month, but the increase is likely to slow, according to a survey published Sunday.
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The House is poised to vote on a proposal Sunday that would make Washington the one-stop-shop for cheap student loans and boost funding for need-based scholarships.
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The momentous vote the House is set to take on Sunday would make far-reaching changes in the American health care system.
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The political whirlwind surrounding the health reform votes in the House on Sunday is powered by many issues. Cost is chief among them.
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The Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 are bumping up against the best levels in roughly a year-and-a-half, with little to interrupt the flow.
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As Congress considers limiting the Federal Reserve's regulatory authority to just the country's largest bank holding companies, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke reiterated on Saturday that the central bank should retain power over banks of all sizes.
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On Sunday, the House is set to vote on an historic overhaul of the nation's health care system. It will also take up an issue that will get far less attention but could affect the wallets of millions of Americans.
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A year and a half after Lehman Brothers' collapse, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is calling for a federal investigation into the "Lehman situation" and other companies that may have fudged their balance sheets, contributing to the financial crisis.
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The 661 auto dealers General Motors is offering to reinstate received letters this week with the deal terms -- and some breathed sighs of relief. They'll be able to get their franchises back without a pricey and protracted battle.
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Question 1. May I claim gas and Internet costs on income taxes for job seeking? -- F. Henderson
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If there was ever an automaker to which the expression "back in the day" belongs, it would be Volvo.
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Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke have a message for everyone who thinks the Federal Reserve isn't to blame for the housing bubble and Great Recession: It wasn't our fault.
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Long-term Treasurys rose Friday as stocks inched lower. Shorter term notes were hardly changed.
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Palm's future already looked bleak. But after reporting worse than expected results for the third quarter Thursday, some analysts think the company's stock is now essentially worthless.
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Oil fell Friday as fresh worries over Greece's debt crisis pushed the dollar higher against the euro.
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Unemployment rates continue to rise, with the majority of U.S. metropolitan areas showing an increase in January, according to a government report.
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Stocks slipped Friday as a strong dollar dragged on commodity prices, giving investors a reason to step back after pushing the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite to 18-month highs in the previous session.
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The dollar rose against major currencies Friday as investors continued to worry about finding a solution for Greece's debt problems.
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In Turkey, it's a crime to defame the country's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk or to ridicule "Turkishness." So Google restricts access to videos that the government of Turkey deems illegal on google.com.tr.
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U.S. stocks were poised to open little changed Friday, as investors remain reluctant to place big bets following the recent run up.
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Thanks to Miguel over at Simoleon Sense for spotting this one: Didier Sornette has immersed his life in risk. He rides motorcycles, windsurfs and water skis long stretches of a 120-mile route between Nice and Corsica. Now comes a daunting professional challenge: "The Financial Bubble Experiment." Mr. Sornette, 52 years old, is the director of the Financial Crisis Observatory at the Swiss Federal I
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By Andrew W. Lo and Mark T. Mueller Abstract The quantitative aspirations of economists and financial analysts have for many years been based on the belief that it should be possible to build models of economic systems - and financial markets in particular - that are as predictive as those in physics. While this perspective has led to a number of important breakthroughs in economics, "physics envy
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The International Centre for Financial Regulation (ICFR) last week announced the establishment of its Academic Panel, comprising of leading academics in the field of financial economics and regulation and whose knowledge and expertise will help to guide the ICFR in its development and growth. The panel will enable the ICFR to foster closer links with the academic world, and to exchange ideas on im
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Since NYU Courant's Marco Avellaneda was recently awarded the 2010 Quant of the Year distinction by readers of Risk Magazine, I thought it was worthwhile pointing up this unpublished working paper he wrote in collaboration with Paul Besson. It offers an interesting overview of capacity and manager skills in the hedge fund space, drawing attention to critical issues impacting performance. Abstract
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Quite how I missed this (pdf) I don't know but in January readers of Risk Magazine voted Marco Avellaneda, Quant of the year for 2010 for his groundbreaking work on the effect of short-selling restrictions on price dynamics: His paper, "A dynamic model for hard to borrow stocks", co-authored with Mike Lipkin of Katama Trading, was published in Risk in June last year (pages 92–97), and has qu
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A great spot from Miguel over at Simoleon Sense: As part of a groundbreaking new Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences (ITS), the Graduate Center at CUNY presents a talk by Marc Potters, co-CEO of Capital Fund Management, one of France's oldest alternative investment management firms. After a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University and postdoctoral work at the University of Rome, Potters join
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In today's environment, banks are cautious of all risk, and they increasingly are looking at how well vendors are managed and whether they are going to be able to deliver products for the long term. As the economic crisis has brought intense scrutiny on the securities industry, it in turn is changing the way Wall Street firms choose their technology partners. According to industry insiders, indepe
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Subscribe in a reader - Subscribe by Email General News | People and Funds | Launches| Activism | Crime and Law General Fund News SEC looking for hedge fund talent Crain's New York Business Just as hedge funds are celebrating another month of positive inflows and marginal performance gains, the Securities and Exchange Commission is gearing up add more than 30 new investigators to its New York offi
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UC San Diego and Harvard deliver first experimental findings on spread of cooperation in a social network For all those dismayed by scenes of looting in disaster-struck zones, whether Haiti or Chile or elsewhere, take heart: Good acts – acts of kindness, generosity and cooperation – spread just as easily as bad. And it takes only a handful of individuals to really make a difference. In
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Differentiating Financial Products Even the smartest amongst us can be fooled by the pricing structures of relatively simple financial products. In any normal industry we would expect the law of one price would be prominent – in efficient markets all identical goods must have only one price. Now whether or not the market for financial services is efficient or not is a moot point but the indu
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Little-known brokerage firm Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co has long toiled in the shadows of Wall Street, but the boutique suddenly has been thrust into the limelight because of an "ideas dinner" it sponsored last month for a group of about 18 hedge fund traders. Monness Crespi sponsors unscripted dinners from time to time, said people familiar with the get-togethers. They provide a chance for ma
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Cass Profile at MoneyScience Date: 30 April -1 May 2010, one day and a half conference Location: Cass Business School, City University London Event Homepage Plenary Speakers Helyette Geman, Professor of Finance at Birkbeck, University of London & ESCP Europe Elyes Jouini, Distinguished Professor, Universite de Paris-Dauphine Dilip Madan, Professor of Finance at the Robert H. Smith School of Bu
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Wiley-Blackwell congratulates the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winners: Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson. Professor Ostrom is also the first woman to receive the Prize in Economics. To celebrate their outstanding achievement, we are delighted to give you the opportunity to read articles by both winners for free. Professors Ostrom and Williamson were awarded the 2009 Nobel P
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I haven't seen it, but according to this Feature Length Documentary: The current economic crisis is not a failure of capitalism, but a failure of culture. Generation Zero explores the cultural roots of the global financial meltdown - beginning with the narcissism of the 1960's, spreading like a virus through the self-indulgent 90's, and exploding across the world in the present economic cataclysm.
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By Damiano Brigo, Mirela Predescu and Agostino Capponi Abstract We review different approaches for measuring the impact of liquidity on CDS prices. We start with reduced form models incorporating liquidity as an additional discount rate. We review Chen, Fabozzi and Sverdlove (2008) and Buhler and Trapp (2006, 2008), adopting different assumptions on how liquidity rates enter t
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Cass News: Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne MP, delivers the 2010 Mais Lecture http://bit.ly/9LBeta How old is too old for an MBA? http://bit.ly/cjJx5d Cass News: Professor Costas Grammenos wins Lloyds List Greek Shipping Award http://bit.ly/9576kR Cass News: Social inequalities and poor health impact on working life expectancy http://bit.ly/99XrUV A few thoughts about Faculty Blogs. http://bit.l
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A complete set of brochures and registration forms is available here. Advanced Financial Mathematical Methods - Using Stochastic Volatility and Lvy Processes based models in Finance - Day 1: Models, Algorithms and Practice May 19th 2010 London UK Trainer: Dr Jörg Kienitz Further Information The goal of this one day seminar is to provide a detailed overview, offering insights into the latest t
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A new report, titled "Tomorrow's MBA," has found that prospective students are still keen on the MBA qualification despite its reputation taking a knock during the banking crisis. However, asked what content was valuable to them as part of an MBA study, respondents put Ethics in the bottom 4 out of 30 possible elements. CarringtonCrisp, education marketing specialists, who conducted the study with
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Henley Business School Profile at MoneyScience Henley Business School has launched its annual range of scholarships and bursaries for the Henley Full-time and Executive MBA 2010 intakes. The scholarships are this year designed to reward real academic merit and will be offered to the four candidates across both modes of study who can bring most academic value to the programmes. Each scholars
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Henley Business School Profile at MoneyScience Henley Executive MBA applicants can from this year choose to take advantage of the exceptional scope of expertise across Henley Business School through a range of newly launched themed MBAs. These themed MBAs are designed for experienced, practising managers who are looking for a world renowned general management MBA but with a particular appli
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Counterparty Credit Risk: The new challenge for global financial markets Jon Gregory ISBN: 978-0-470-68576-1 Hardcover 448 pages December 2009 Homepage at Wiley "Congratulations to Jon Gregory. This is a very readable book about an area that has become increasingly important to all financial institutions." - Professor John Hull, Maple Financial Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management, Joseph
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If you're a registered broker or work for firm that sells any sort of investment products, you'll want to think twice before blurting out anything that could be construed as investment advice on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has updated its guidelines for interpreting the rules that govern how brokers present advice to t
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The arms race in trading technology was set to intensify this week as Thomson Reuters, the news and market data company, on Monday unveiled a service for "high-frequency" traders allowing them to make split-second trading decisions based on news articles "before the information moves the market" . . . So-called "machine readable news" services, such as the new Thomson Reuters product, have grown u
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June 2 - 4, 2010 October 18 - 21, 2010 London, UK Course Home Page - Full Course Outline - Download a Brochure (pdf) 15% 'Early Bird' Discount before April 5th, 2010 - 20% Discount for first 5 delegates The goal of this three-day intensive hands-on course is to learn those advanced features in C+ that are of direct relevance to writing and extending application for quantitative and computational f
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In a few years, Generation Y will storm the gates of MBA programs that are ill-equipped to teach them on their technology-focused terms. It's time for B-schools to embrace the future is at the Door. They say every army trains to fight the last war, not the next one. Could it be that business schools are in danger of falling into the same trap, gearing up to train the current generation of corporat
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When Rodrigo Ormaechea graduated with an MBA from London Business School in July, he knew the jobs market was dire, so he set about showing the kind of enterprise he had been taught. Starting with only one contact, Ormaechea, 33, from Uruguay, organised a personal road tour of South America. In three weeks, he travelled through Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, networking as he went.
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OTC derivatives will be easier to price and trade by the buy-side following sweeping legislative reforms, but the sell-side’s appetite to supply them may decrease, according to industry observers. Following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and near-failure of US insurance firm AIG – both major players in the OTC derivatives space – regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are comm
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Whatever else its legacy might be, the noughties was a decade that revolutionised how the buy-side executed trades in the global equity markets. To put the scale and nature of the shift from voice-broked to electronic trading into context, theTRADEnews.com asked six influential industry figures to chart the milestones reached and the benefits achieved, as well as the challenges to come... The buy-
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London Financial Studies Profile at MoneyScience More information about this course. Modern finance portrays investment decision-making as rational choice. However, pure rationality does not describe how many decisions are truly made. This course examines (1) the behavioural strategies that amateur and expert investors rely upon to make decisions, (2) the structure and speculative dynamics of retu
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st 5 delegates 9 - 11 December, 2009 London, UK The goal of this three-day intensive hands-on course is to learn those advanced features in C++ that are of direct relevance to writing and extending applications for quantitative and computational finance. The course uses the object-oriented and generic (templates) programming models (OOP, GP) in combination with design patterns and the STL and boos
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The University of Technology Sydney Department of Mathematical Sciences is a leader in statistical and stochastic modelling and members of the department contribute to modelling in a diverse range of areas, including discrete choice modelling and quantitative risk management (including quantitative finance and stochastic numerical methods). We are looking to extend our involvement in modelling by
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MoneyScience has teamed with eFinancialCareers and would like to invite you to participate in the world's largest online study of careers in finance. In today's economic climate, the job market can be tough and unpredictable. We have joined together with international partners to bring you this survey to hear the views of all those connected with, or interested in, jobs in finance. We will be talk
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Almost every physicist by now has heard of the fast-growing subdiscipline of "econophysics", a field characterized by collaborations between physicists and economists and focused on asking if new insights or even laws could emerge if the concepts and approaches of statistical physics were brought to bear on questions that originate in economics. And almost everyone, physicist or nonphysicist, has
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Notice Posted at Econophysics Forum: Dear Colleagues, Last November we had an exciting gathering of many people who are/were physicists or other natural scientists but are working in finance, insurance and related sectors — an occasion built upon the so-called econophysics community that brought together both academics and practitioners in an intimate encounter. We would like to host
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Journal Homepage About this journal Browse the Archive View Editorial board World Bank Economic Review RSS The World Bank Economic Review is one of the most widely read scholarly economic journals in the world. It is the only journal of its kind that specializes in quantitative development policy analysis. Subject to strict refereeing, articles examine policy choices and therefore emphasize policy
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Quant-Press Latest Papers The aim of Quant-Press.com is to build an online library of freely available papers and articles in quantitative finance, as well as offering an interface between the financial academic and practitioner communities. [Externalrss-quantpress-titles-rss100-20-30]
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A new report from Aite Group, LLC examines the use of algorithmic trading in the foreign exchange (FX) markets. The report looks at the changing market reality of the FX market, assesses the potential for growth in the adoption of FX algorithmic trading, and identifies possible pitfalls. Aite Group interviewed 12 actively trading asset managers, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms to glean
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Dramatic growth in trading volumes and a seemingly bottomless well of liquidity are transforming global foreign exchange markets. Worldwide forex trading volume surged 36% from 2006 to 2007 among accounts interviewed by Greenwich Associates for its 2008 Global Foreign Exchange Research Study, continuing a steady run of double-digit annual growth. Banks and investment managers are increasing t
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eDocument is available from the SSRN eLibrary for free eDocument is available, fee may apply if you or your institution do not subscribe to the publisher's journal/series Credit Derivatives and Risk Management FEDS Working Paper No. 2007-47 Michael S. Gibson Federal Reserve Board Date Posted: November 29, 2007 Joint Modeling of Call and Put Implied Volatility Katja Ahoniemi and Markk
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Location: Frankfurt-Hausen, Germany. Date:2010-03-23 00:00:00. The seminar aims to give an insight into the German financial market in general and the exchange structure and market model of Xetra in particular. Course content Market participants Exchange Organisation - Deutsche Börse Group - The Frankfurt Stock Exchange and its bodies Market segments and listing - Regulated Market - Open Mark
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Location: Paris, France. Date:2010-03-25 00:00:00.
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Location: London, UK. Date:2010-03-29 00:00:00. The certificate programme Exchange Processes and Systems Deutsche Börse Group aims at providing participants with a comprehensive understanding of securities transactions and the related system requirements. It is a part time course of studies: Generally, a minimum of eight course days must be attended during the course of the six-month programm
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Location: Dubai. Date:2010-04-08 00:00:00. ENUE: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Submit papers to: conpap@wbint.org and papsconfo@gmail.com Submission deadline : 19 February 2010 Registration deadline : 8 March 2010 Sponsors : World Business Institute, Australia and Five Refereed Journals Research papers, abstract and case studies relating to broad field of Accounting, Banking, Fi
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Location: Zurich, Switzerland. Date:2010-04-10 00:00:00. Following numerous requests from market participants, Eurex now offers the "Certificate in Derivatives Trading", which trains participants to become a Certified Eurex Exchange Trader upon passing the final exam. The course also prepares for the Derivatives examination of the SII. This certificate programme is a qualification intended for per
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Location: London, UK. Date:2010-04-12 00:00:00. Over the past two decades increased changes in the complexity of financial products and increasing computational capacity has meant that Monte Carlo methods have become the mainstay of any financial engineer's toolkit. This course illustrates how Monte Carlo can be used in modern finance for both pricing and risk management purposes. The course uses
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Location: London, UK. Date:2010-04-14 00:00:00. Equity derivatives have been growing in importance over a number of years and are now well established in the financial marketplace. This seminar is for anyone who wishes to be able to price, use, manage or evaluate equity derivatives and exotic equity options. More than half of the seminar is devoted to practical small group sessions. Who The Course
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Location: Montreal, Canada. Date:2010-04-15 00:00:00. The EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, CIRANO Montreal, Center for Mangement Buyout Research (CMBOR),Nottingham University Business School and SCHULICH SCHOOL of BUSINESS, YORK UNIVERSITY, CANADA jointly sponsor a research symposium on "Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital Markets" issues. Objective The Symposium will focus on "Entrepreneu
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Location: Cass Business School, London. Date:2010-04-19 00:00:00. Cass Business School and the Capco Institute are pleased to cordially invite you to attend the second annual conference of the Cass-Capco Institute Paper Series on Risk. The event will be held at the Cass Business School in London (106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ) on the 6th of April, 2009. If you wish to attend this event please s
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Location: London, UK. Date:2010-04-19 00:00:00. "Great perspective on financial risk management, the best and most useful piece of education in my business life" - delegate NIBC bank "Great up to date course with lots of practical examples" - Vice President, Swiss Re 10% Early Bird Discount Before March 1st 2010 REQUEST A BROCHURE A practical and intensive course with a world renowned speaker cove
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moneyscience: Joe Stiglitz and Jim Chanos: "Selling Us Short: The Limits of Markets (and Governments)." http://bit.ly/d1tkkk
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The Financial Mathematics Computation Cluster (FMC2) is a collaboration between Industry, University College Dublin, Dublin City University, and NUI Maynooth.
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Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. A new search engine coming up: Wolfram Alpha. The Twitter Shorty Awards. - Twitter Etiquette. Robots!, Robots! Robots! Despite a sombre atmosphere at the World Economic Forum in Davos, young entrepreneurs are coming to the fore as Nobel prize winner Kofi Annan launches a group to give the young leaders of tomorrow a voice on global issues Wi
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