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Some more reading recommendations, this time on the immediate aftermath of WWII: the Russian occupation of Berlin and the US occupation of T...

Click the image for the original flash graphic, which illustrates quite clearly the re-bundling of securities. The process may sound techni...

I haven't read this yet, but am looking forward to it. (OK, maybe I just like the title and cover :-) Here is the author's web pag...

For years, when asked what I wanted for Christmas, I've been replying peace on earth, good will toward men :-) No one ever seems to ...

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World Clark's book is an ambitious look at world economic history. The first half of...

Via Mark Thoma , this nice summary of how to run a hedge fund, taking advantage of the fee structure and the asymmetry of compensation and r...

I found this tag and notes when I sat down for the afternoon session :-) Miami micro-climate is killing me: outside it's 80 and humid (w...

From the Economist, a nice summary of the Hawks et al. paper on a possible recent speedup in human evolution . Economist : ...Dr Moyzis'...

It pays to be smart! +$4 B on the balance sheet from subprime bets (WSJ). The Times called this correctly in an earlier article I posted . A...

I'm here for the Miami 2007 meeting. Everything is great, except they just charged us $7 for an espresso at lunch :-/

Some interesting new science suggests that human evolution has accelerated in the last tens of thousands of years. The study by Hawks, Wang,...

Nowadays you never know when you are interfacing with an alien machine intelligence :-) Online chat , poker and chess are all infested by ...

Here's a good summary from the Washington Post. (Link via Brad DeLong's blog .) You can skip this beginning part if you know what a...

Here's the latest partially insightful and also partially completely wrong column by David Brooks, whom I can't stand to read with ...

The New Yorker has an amazing piece on endogenous retroviruses -- retroviruses that succeeded in injecting their RNA into our DNA via germl...

See here , and this 2005 U Michigan commencement address . Will Dyson get Watsonized , or are these heresies insufficiently dangerous? ..all...

This is long, but worth the read! I just quoted the first part below. The whole thing can be found here . Simons at Renaissance Cracks Code,...

Someone once said that the Singularity is like the Rapture for geeks :-) Nevertheless, some of the talks from the recent Singularity Summi...

There's a story in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman , about the first seminar Feynman gives at Princeton. He's just a graduate ...

According to the Times, Goldman unloaded their subprime exposure: NYTimes : ... Late last year, as the markets roared along, David A. Viniar...