Alphaville. Elsewhere on Wednesday, - The real problem with HFT. - Summers’ inverse Say’s Law. - The impolitic wisdom of Simon Kuznets. - Buying the future. Read more Markets: Japanese stocks suffered as hopes for monetary stimulus faded, but the rest of Asia-Pacific was upbeat after Wall Street staged a rally. We all know the role played by the vendor financing feedback loop of hell in dotcom bubble mark 1. Quickly summarised, tech equipment suppliers became overly dependent on sales to internet startups funded through vendor financing, a situation which saw them lending money to companies with dubious track-records for the purpose of buying equipment directly back from them. Nevertheless, it’s still a model replicated on a consumer level in the west, whether it’s through car company lending money to customers so that they can buy their cars or sofa company loans for purchases of sofas.
Read more If you’re short the rupee* the past few months have been uncomfortable. From Goldman, for example: Read more. Morningstar Stock, Mutual Fund, Hedge Fund, ETF Investment Research. John Gapper's Business Blog | FT.com. Please don’t call yourself a serial entrepreneur Thomas Edison: entrepreneur, plain and simple © Getty Images Thought leaders were bad enough. Changemakers were hard to cope with. Do we still have to put up with serial entrepreneurs? The phrase has become alarmingly common — more than 15,000 people on LinkedIn have decided that “serial entrepreneur” best describes their career path. Admittedly, there is a certain genius in co-opting a word whose better known application to careers has been as a preface to “killer”.
And these days being an entrepreneur is more fashionable than shaving off your beard while binge-watching Netflix. But that does not excuse the phrase serial entrepreneur. Uber, Andrew Carnegie and the rise of fast philanthropy Uber – arming up (Getty) I did a double-take at Uber’s decision to fund driverless car research in partnership with Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. FT column: The moment digital selling tips over into creepy stalking © Charlie Bibby The book is back. Markets Data - Overview. Yahoo! Finance - Business Finance, Stock Market, Quotes, News. LSE. Euronext - Home > Home. DB Research - Academic research. Economy blogs.