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“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” -- W.H. Auden

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." ~ Carl Jung

"Education is a refuge in adversity" ~ Aristotle

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity" ~ Albert Einstein ...

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it -- this is knowledge.” -- Confucius

Tiny Italian enclave in Switzerland transferred back to Italy and the EU's customs union https://www.euronews.com/2020/01/03/tiny-italian-enclave-in-switzerland-transferred-back-to-italy-and-the-eu-s-customs-union

Happy (belated) Public Domain day! For the first time in 95 years, it’s finally legal to remix George Gershwin’s “Fascinating Rhythm.” The song entered the public domain earlier this week alongside other famous written and recorded work from the 1920s. Most of these works were supposed to...

This week’s weirdest ways to spend money Stock market treat you well last year? Maybe it’s time to invest some of those hard-earned dollars in something different. Here are a few of the most creative ways to spend money that we came across this week: 9 ½ foot remote-controlled bald eagle...

"The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The...

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Sayre's Law states: "In any dispute, the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."

"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." - Rabindranath Tagor

Clark’s Hedge Fund Plunges by Record 35% as Short Bets Backfire (Bloomberg) Russell Clark’s hedge fund slumped by 35% last year — its biggest-ever annual loss — as his short bets went awry during the longest bull market in history. The Horseman Global Fund has persistently wagered against...

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Steve Cohen One of Few Bright Spots in Bad Year for Hedge Funds (NYPost.com) This year, only a select handful of winners materialized, including: Point72 Asset Management’s Steve Cohen, the potential new owner of the New York Mets, had a home run in 2019 with 13 percent returns as of the end of...

Einhorn’s Greenlight Gains 14% for Year After Dip in December (Bloomberg) David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital fell 0.3% across its hedge funds in December, trimming returns for 2019 to 13.8%. Greenlight, which follows a value-oriented investing strategy, posted its results in a client update seen...

Nike Stock Beat the S&P 500 in 2019. Here’s How. By Connor Smith Dec. 31, 2019 11:44 am ET Order Reprints Print Article Text size Nike stock has soared nearly 36% this year as of afternoon trading on Dec. 31.Photograph by Drew Angerer/Getty Images With the year almost over, we’re takinga...

2020 KEY PREDICTIONS BY FACTSET EXPERTS COMPANIES AND MARKETS By FactSet Insight | December 31, 2019 As the curtain falls on 2019, our experts offer their predictions for the trends that will shape 2020. Econ: Growth Expected to Continue but at a Slower Rate Sara Potter, Vice President...

Point72, Renaissance Technologies, and Millennium are Trying to Make Quant Strategies Work in Bond Markets. Here’s Why their Nascent Credit-Trading Teams Face an Uphill Battle. (Business Insider) Some of the biggest funds are pumping money, technology, and time into building out credit quant...