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No, not that kind of alpha. I was looking for a very light laptop so that you could do some writing anywhere. I have a…

This weekend I flipped through the Personals in the New York Review of Books. They’ve always been good for entertainment, with very literately phrased ads…

I was watching TV the other night and they’re now using songs like “All You Need is Love” to sell banking services. When I’m dependent…

I suppose all surprised are unexpected. • I was in Cannes on Bastille Day after the GAIM conference and what was most impressive was the…

I spent two weeks in Southern France, starting at a GAIM conference in Cannes. As I wrote before, you don’t learn too much of a…

When I was looking at a really efficient rider in the Tour de France, not sprinting but simply powering along during the main part of…

At the GAIM conference in Cannes, it’s very different from the derivatives or risk management conferences I’ve been to before. There are 1200 people attending.…

I was reading the ‘Vows’ section in the Fashion and Style Sunday New York Times today. That ‘s where they describe recent marriages. Here’s an…

We had the orientation for new students at the Columbia FE program yesterday, and I listened to several of our past students talk about how…

I found myself thinking about the relative effects of mundane vs extraordinary events, and the effect they have on human life. In my case, what…

I recently had some students cheat in a course I teach. What irritated me was that they seemed to regard cheating as a sort of…

About a year or two ago I sat on an airplane coming back from London and ended up watching ‘School of Rock,’ without any preconceptions,…

Well, not quite myths, but objections. I don’t like axiomatization in finance. I believe you should learn things more sloppily the first time around, and…

In a recent New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson, one of the men who, almost sixty years ago, help prove that quantum electrodynamic was…

Many interviews now concentrate on giving people technical and mathematical quizzes. You can get books to help prepare for them. Quizzes are good at finding…

Once upon a time when I worked at Goldman, a trader friend of mine Dan O’Rourke and I used to sometimes talk about spelling out…

I see that my friend NNT comments in his adjacent blog that ‘… what people call Black-Scholes … we should call Bachelier-Thorpe.’ By the same…

I was looking at blogs on google and I found one that referrred to an article I once wrote on how to get a job…

Never done a blog before. If you want to know more about me, look at www.ederman.com……. Bombs away. The other night I went to see…