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Hmm ... if I ruled the world, Madoff would be imprisoned for life and all the assets of his known relations confiscated, regardless of guilt. All fees ever earned in connection with placing the Madoff fund would also become due to the state to encourage future marketers to check the...

I thought the free market sets the clearing price for talent. Why is a discussion about whether a profession is underpaid or overpaid even meaningful?

ET used to rank aliases by number of posts. Was this dropped because it was counter productive to ET's purpose?

Although documents indicate that Mr. Lee brought at least two risky investment opportunities to Mr. Jackson, Mr. Lee still managed to castigate the performer in court papers for a lack of financial discipline in 1999 and 2000. "Jackson became fixated on obtaining expensive possessions and...

John Branca, an attorney who structured the purchase for Mr. Jackson and represented him from 1980 to 1990 and periodically after 1993, said he saw no signs of wayward financial behavior in the years straddling the release of "Thriller." "I think Michael was brilliant for a good part of his...

Others close to Mr. Jackson say that the performer's finances have not deteriorated simply because he is a big spender. They say that until the early 1990's, he paid relatively close attention to his accounting and kept an eye on the cash that flowed through his business and creative ventures...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/business/yourmoney/14michael.html May 14, 2006 What Happened to the Fortune Michael Jackson Made? By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN This article was reported by Jeff Leeds, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Timothy L. O'Brien and written by Mr. O'Brien. SEATED in a...

Thanks for the replies - sound quite sensible. New PCs will probably roll out with Windows 7, and my hardware replacement cycle is coming up. Does anyone trade from an Ubuntu platform?

Should we bother to upgrade? What do people think about OS for their trading box?

Let's have a reference for this interview please.

There are so many polls on how much a trader makes, I thought it's time to address the other end of the equation. How much did you (your household) spend last year?

Of course Gabon received an average of $100mm a year in developmental aid from 1988 to 1998, and $50mm a year from 1970 to 1987 before that. You can look it up here: http://stats.oecd.org/qwids/ This is a country that has GDP per capita higher than Romania and Argentina, but a life...

It's good to be Omar Bongo - you get sluts delivered with your suits. Gabon's Bongo Ready for AIDS Test to Quash Rumors Reuters (04/14/95) Gabonese President Omar Bongo said he is ready to take an HIV test to disprove rumors that he has AIDS, French Cooperation Minister Bernard Debre...

For many years Gabon was said, perhaps apocryphally, to have the world's highest per capita consumption of Champagne. From NYT obit : http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/omar_bongo/index.html

The adventures of Bongo http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/2004/02/06/news/n14_06022004.htm ‘Gabon leader did not hold me as sex slave’ Report by AP Dakar, Senegal – A PERUVIAN beauty pageant contestant has denied reports that she was held in Libreville against her will to...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/af919ffa-548b-11de-a58d-00144feabdc0.html Death of astute Gabon leader ends era By Matthew Green in Lagos Published: June 9 2009 03:00 | Last updated: June 9 2009 03:00 Omar Bongo, Africa's longest-serving ruler, one of its wealthiest men and a linchpin of...

There is an old saying about how on Wall Street, when a man with wisdom meets a man with money, the wise man leaves with the money and the rich man leaves with wisdom. No one is going to sell you the keys to the kingdom period. Your hopes and dreams are being preyed upon.

This is not what most people would term statistical arbitrage, which usually involves running some kind of balanced book. This is pattern trading. Nothing wrong with it, it's just a very different beast. Quite a few CTAs practice it.

Yes, I gather that the pricey switches are enterprise level, where buyers care mostly about centralized reporting and control over thousands of ports. Doesn't seem to make sense for someone who only needs 20 to 40 ports. Seems like any decent brand unmanaged switch is going to do the trick.

Am thinking of purchasing a 24 port switch and there is a whole range of prices for them. Is there a real difference or no? I'm just trying to clean up my network, which has grown into several small switches plugged into a load balancer.