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“Lola” is executed with great panache, and loosely relevant to economic affairs today. It’s set in a small town in the boom of 1950s West Germany, and is about contagion, the moral kind.
Comments closed1. Everyone is a grownup and no one is more grown up than anyone else.
Comments closedSam Shepard as technocratic cold America vs. Julie Delpy as cultured sophisticated Europe.
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What follows are some remarks I intend to make on Friday Oct 21 2011 at a panel on global risk organized by GARP and the Federal…
Comments closedWhy shouldn’t one regard all mental phenomena as meaningful? Why only some?
Comments closedA video featuring Derman discussing his new book.
Comments closedI went to the NY Film Festival for the first time in years last night and saw David Cronenberg?s A Dangerous Method, a movie about the…
Comments closedIn this article on nightmares in the WSJ, there is the following paragraph:
Comments closedI came across a very interesting post by Sam Harris about the difficulties of getting paid for being an artist, a writer, or a public intellectual.
Comments closedHaving been a scientist, one of my major pet peeves is the na?ve use of science.
Comments closedThe first thing that struck me after I got over my shock at being 10,000 miles from everything I knew was how foreign everyone was. New York was a polyglot city of immigrants.
Comments closedFor a couple of years now I’ve had a bad feeling about the field of finance.
Comments closedIf God had only had a committee of business writers to help him, I think he could have done a better job.
Comments closedI have been reading a column in the Sydney Morning Herald by their Economics Writer Jessica Irvine.
Comments closedIf there’s one larger lesson one learns from options theory that transcends its technical details, it’s that there aren’t unmitigated goods.
Comments closedGoogle’s big battle will be that they know (and care) nothing about customer support or user interface.
Comments closedI said I would try to explain what I mean by sophisticated vulgarity in financial modeling, which I will do by imperfect analogy.
Comments closedEdward Hadas of the FT/Lex has an interesting video on the debt ceiling fiasco called Playing Chicken with America’s Future.
Comments closedIf you are going to seek a career in quantitative finance, what’s your advantage?
Comments closedThe other day the new MSFE students showed up at Columbia for orientation and I had to welcome them. These are some notes from what I said.
Comments closedTerrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” is not a movie, it’s a multiverse, a meditation, a “Koyanisqaatsi” inspired by the Bible rather than by Buddhist texts.
Comments closedI am perpetually amazed at the way people can/are allowed to reinvent themselves.
Comments closedOnce upon a time a man had a small daughter that he was crazy about. Everything she did seemed like a mark of genius. Her…
Comments closedI have finally finished reading “How The Hippies Saved Physics” by David Kaiser. It made me admire again people who have a passion for something…
Comments closedWhat we call progress is often linked to portability and the autonomy it appears to bring: spears to daggers to guns, pendulum clocks to watches,…
Comments closedThe Holy Tortilla of Liguria. Well, almost, only better ? Mexico and Texas have their tortillas and pizzas with images of the Virgin Mother. Turin…
Comments closedIn Italy they are called nespole, in Cape Town loquats. You could not buy loquats in Cape Town, you could only steal them. They grew…
Comments closedI read an article somewhere today about how BNY Mellon had to pay several hundred million dollars for unfairly overdrafting customers, and it struck me…
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