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Excel can be quite esoteric I find. esp with VBA - I can never remember all the referencing conventions. It almost doesn't matter how long you have been using it because usually you've been using it all that time to perform a certain kind of function. Excel is extremely flexible and has...

http://timothysykes.com/blog/2009/07/28/guess-how-much-my-blog-made-in-june/ Guess How Much My Blog Made In June? I’ll Give You A Hint: More Than What Most Doctors Make In A Year Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 28th of Jul, 2009 03:40:43 PM Thanks again to my valued customers, many...

Websites often insert hidden character strings in data to prevent easy usage of their work. If you want to get around it, you need to sit down and look at functions like LEFT(), RIGHT(), MID() and various ways of turning text into values. Excel has a lot of functions to mod strings, you...

In a sense people thought they were betting big on direction when in reality they were making a dual bet on direction and autocorrelation. Since the average person who bought this for the long haul doesn't know what the word "autocorrelation" means or even whether it is in English, I suppose...

If you are putting money in a bank in a foreign country, you want to know a whole slew of things 1) Is the bank sound? Don't forget that the bank just turns around and loans your funds to somebody else, so you want to have a bank that is unlikely to go under from bad loans / fraud. What is...

What someone gets paid is a matter for his employer and himself. The rest of us should just shut our mouths, unless we are communists, in which case we get mad at large paychecks and demand a completely arbitrary "equality". If his employer happens to represent the general public, then we are...

I think a blend of the two would be a third choice. Exactly how you blend them is the trick. Some kind of catastrophic insurance fund for the ill but penniless is necessary. And some kind of increasing level of public subsidization is necessary as you go down the wealth/income scale. But a...

Is part time employment captured by Average Weekly Hours, but not by the headline Unemployment rate? Part time work doesn't get captured in Initial Claims that much is for certain.

The fact that he was incompetent doesn't bother me as much as the fact that he was corrupt. Living high off tax payer dollars recycled through investment banking fee kickbacks. This makes Alabama the moral equivalent of a Third World tinpot country where this kind of activity is standard.

He fits the profile of the type who is all flash and no cash, almost promoting something and just waiting for that "big score" to settle all the accounts. Meanwhile everything is in hock and everyone he knows has been pestered to either lend him money or to "invest" with him. Nothing that...

The more I read about this guy the worse it gets. He even owes his mom money. Last month, though, on March 23, Dykstra picked up the phone and woke up his mother with a call at around 6 in the morning, according to Kevin Dykstra, his younger brother. Lenny was stranded in Cleveland. He...

Mike Fish/ESPN.com Dykstra was very good at baseball, but there are questions about his businesses. Flying colors One thing Dykstra particularly hates paying for is jet fuel. That's tricky because without it, his Gulfstream twin-engine "bird" will stay grounded and his vision of a charter...

Plenty more at http://timothysykes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1728 He seems like a scum bag.

CAMARILLO, Calif. -- He's slumped behind a desk, looking frumpy in a sweater vest and tan cap. Tonight, he is living the life of an entrepreneur, pushing to get out the next issue of his glossy athletes-only magazine while he sneaks peeks at the financial news and stock charts on a bank of three...

We can imagine a world where for some strange reason people decide sewage is the wave of the future. Some guy with a PhD writes a paper saying based on simple projections of the number of times we need to go to the loo and the average waste matter each time we go, the country is going to face...

The central point of the argument to seize all the assets of Madoff's family is that of deterrence. That it will help to deter future Ponzi schemers, who presumably love their families. If we accept this to be true (it's debatable I admit), then you can see through to the case to be made...

lolatency, What you are trying to do is very difficult and will only work for a few people .... but it is possible. Just keep your head down, do sensible things, avoid blow ups and keep your cool even as your pnl swings up and down.

... and I'm not saying "group" punishment should be used in all instances. If you've been in the military, you know how effective group punishment is - and the group generally doesn't resent it because it builds group solidarity oddly enough, tapping into some deep psychological seams in us as...

It is to discourage/prevent future occurrence. We know Madoff was a sociopath who could look his best friends and little old ladies straight in the eye while taking their money to the cleaners. He doesn't give a damn basically. But most people are concerned about their family, as...

There isn't anything magical about how much an employer is willing to pay any employee. The same applies to programmers as it does to the cleaning lady and the trader. 1) How much money does the business make? 2) How many of you are there around to hire? 3) Can I do without you? (ie...