Rob Tsai

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Apr
15th

Thu

InVenture Fund: InVenture responds to the NY Times' coverage of microfinance interest rates & profits

Microcredit has been mired in controversy lately—most recently on the front page of the New York Times, where Neil MacFarquhar’s piece about the commercialization of the microlending industry paints a bleak picture of the future of this institution. He’s right to point out that, in the wrong…

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Mar
11th

Thu

Frank Partnoy on Off Balance Sheet accounting via Kedrosky

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I’m proud to be a Taiwanese American. I’m writing in “Taiwanese” in the 2010 US Census. Check out this video on why it matters to write in.

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Mar
5th

Fri

Behavrioral economist, and one of my favorite professors at Princeton, speaks about happiness at TED… ”Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but lack of money brings you misery”

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Feb
22nd

Mon

American business is about maximizing shareholder value,” said Allen Sinai, chief global economist at the research firm Decision Economics. “You basically don’t want workers. You hire less, and you try to find capital equipment to replace them.

— From the NYTimes

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Visualizing the black hole of state revenue via Zerohedge

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The US and Japan… soon China and the ECB - why all the concerns about who will buy each other’s sovereign debt? In a few months each central bank will purchase every single piece of paper printed by respective Treasury departments. Remember - whoever devalues last, loses.

— Tyler Durden (Zerohedge)

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Feb
21st

Sun

siminoff:

Smith and Wollensky created a really funny website called Steak for Stock. At the bottom of the site is a calculator that you can put any ticker symbol in to see what a share of stock will get you.

Looks like we, Ditech (nasdaq: DITC) need to do better because parsley does not fill my stomach…

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Feb
20th

Sat

S&P 500 companies building cash by reducing Capex and liquidating inventories - hardly a signal of a healthy growing economy via Zerohedge

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How our patent system rewards people who troll for dollars, not true innovators via Techdirt

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