April 6, 2008

Creating a Bell Labs for Quants

The current issue of Alpha has the most interesting piece on quantitative investors I have read in ages. Lots of Money:Tech-style stuff about what's happening at the bleeding edge, right where technology and capital markets smack into one another....

Sneak Peek at Weekend Reading

Here is a sneak peek at some links from my weekly Weekend Reading column over at TheStreet. Hurricane price tags soaring on crowded U.S. coast (Reuters) Housing crisis is hitting the Mortgage Banking Association itself (washingtonpost) Inside the run on...

Quote du Jour: Vonnegut

From the intro to Armageddon in Retrospect, the first collection of previously unpublished works by author Kurt Vonnegut since his death: The unhappiest times in his life were those months and sometimes a whole year when he couldn't write, when...