Today, while browsing through StockTwits I came to the realization that financial “new media” is pretty fucking disruptive.  In no other vertical have you seen new media gain more traction and be taken more seriously than in the financial...
Topics: Markets, Technology

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With banks reporting record bonuses this year off of billions in taxpayer bailouts, there has been much populist outrage over banker compensation.   The main argument that is being spewed by the masses is that they wouldn’t have made that money...
Topics: Markets

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In the training program at Smith Barney they give you a reading list.  Most of them were complete bullshit but one of them really stuck with me , “Never Eat Alone”.  This book was about the power of networking and, as it title suggests, the.
Topics: Technology

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Lately I’ve been thinking a bit about the market for labor. All this thinking has led me to wonder whether the liquidity in the labor market is a good thing for organizations and the economy as a whole.Over the past 50 years, the length of service..
Topics: Markets

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As I’m sure you can tell by the my blog posts, lately I’ve been thinking about the social web an awful lot.   Part of it has to do with working at StockTwits but another part of it is that I see it as very disruptive and thus,...
Topics: General, Technology

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