2011-05-18, 18:45 | Link #13781 |
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I wasn't aware there was any contreversy about developing countries being under represented on the IMF. Makes sense that your voting power is proportional to your contribution to the fund, like all such things.
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2011-05-19, 01:56 | Link #13782 | |
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Taiwan cracks down on teen prostitution ring
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Second, Taiwan. Third, Singapore or South Korea?
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2011-05-19, 04:12 | Link #13783 | |
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In Syria, Canadian journalist heard prisoners being tortured
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2011-05-19, 12:01 | Link #13784 | |
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LinkedIn share price more than doubles in NYSE debut
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2011-05-19, 12:55 | Link #13785 | |
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The main thing giving it any legs is that the HR departments are drooling because it means they have even MORE time to sit around eating donuts and expanding their huge butts rather than doing proper work supporting the hiring managers.
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2011-05-19, 13:02 | Link #13786 |
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Can't say about Singapore (that bastion of government-imposed morality), but I can say that Japan/Korea/Taiwan are really similar in that realm, although obviously Japan's market would be the largest both in absolute and relative terms.
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2011-05-19, 13:08 | Link #13787 | |
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2011-05-19, 13:11 | Link #13788 | |
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2011-05-19, 13:22 | Link #13789 |
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"A team of astronomers has identified a novel new kind of galactic wanderer -
lone, Jupiter-sized planets expelled from forming solar systems and drifting in the empty void between the stars. The researchers, led by Takahiro Sumi of Japan's Osaka University, spotted 10 such free-floating "orphan planets" in data from a 2006-7 microlensing survey of our galaxy's centre, which searched for the tell-tale sign of transiting bodies' gravitational fields distorting light from distant stars. Team member David Bennett, of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, explained that this first sighting in a small portion of the Milky Way points to enormous numbers of orphans. He said: "Our survey is like a population census. We sampled a portion of the galaxy, and based on these data, can estimate overall numbers in the galaxy."" See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/19/orphan_planets/ |
2011-05-19, 13:38 | Link #13790 | |
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But typically you have all sorts of money sources for this pit... like hedge-funds or banks that are too big to fail. The game is who shoots faster (or rather backs out at the right time). I imagine this to work like this: A small group of insiders try to attract a lot of public money. Now the public money won't come just by itself, it needs to be lured. So, the insider group takes their own considerable moneystock as a bait and generates demand out of (basically) nothing, just using their private money (if you did this game for some rounds you'ld certainly have the billions to generate that demand - it becomes easier the more money you can spend to make a nice bait). Now, the public money will basically try to jump the bandwagon, hoping for profit taking. But of course most of them will loose much of their money (like in every lottery)... anyway, only the insiders know when they are going to back out with their bait, that has grown a lot in the process. And everyone who misses this point of no return is doomed to pay the big profits of the insiders. To cover the tracks a little bit, wait for a "good" reason to back out. Every quarter of a year you have a potentially good reason... e.g. the quarterly figures did not triple like expected (sarcasm intended). Now a more perverted way to do this, is to be in a position where you can assign public/hedge-fund money to such honey pots. Lets say as a member of the steering committee of banks, funds... you name it. So, you assign the money that isn't yours to the honey pot and if somebody asks why, silence him with the latest profit ratings. At the same time you add your own money to the pot. Since you are well connected with your robber colleagues (they work in other banks/funds), you can set the right time to withdraw your own investment (you basically define your own culmination point of the bubble). This little trick allows you to shift large amounts of public money (thats not yours yet) to your own accounts. And on top of it you can claim bonus payments for the year where the bubble was still growing. You don't have to pay these bonus payments back next year, when the bubble bursts, thats the nice thing about it. The only problem, you need to be well connected with the right people and have some 100 million or some billion dollars of cash on your accounts.
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2011-05-19, 14:34 | Link #13791 | |
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China acknowledges downside to Three Gorges Dam
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2011-05-19, 15:29 | Link #13792 |
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anyone here seen this documentary from NatGeo?
it turns out this adult baby is getting taxpayer-funded benefits! http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/publ...ring-baby.html |
2011-05-19, 16:57 | Link #13793 | ||
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Hopefully anyone who bought the IPO had dumped them by now before the SEC chief step into limit trade proposals. Get your cash off the table, this company certainly looks more dodgy than real, but I don't know why SEC is doing nothing about it. I'll do an update during breaktime in school. This should be an interesting example to be made out of the general public. Quote:
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2011-05-19, 18:53 | Link #13794 |
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An American stance change concerning Israel? Maybe, maybe not.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43091459...deast_n_africa So the President wants to go with 1967 borders with negotiated swapping room? Hmmmm.
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2011-05-19, 20:08 | Link #13795 | |
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One thing, what's the problem for Israel with the 1967 border beside the fact than much colons are outside of them ?
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2011-05-19, 21:54 | Link #13797 | |
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2011-05-19, 22:26 | Link #13799 |
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It took a controversial abduction case to make the Japan government focus on the problem:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13465814 No foreign parent wants to be screwed over.
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2011-05-20, 02:25 | Link #13800 | |
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unless I'm missing something, this is EXACTLY the formula that was being talked about all decade. a final border based on the 1967 armistice lines.
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