June 1, 2008

Be it Resolved: Venture Capital is an Attractive Nuisance

Venture capital, as an institutional asset class, is pretty much dead. Sure, you can get returns from some smaller and more aggressive funds, but any supposed institutional financial asset class that a) can provably thrive only with teensy amounts of...

Sneak Peak at Weekend Reading

Here is a sneak peak at some links from my weekly reading column over at TheStreet.com. A top trader (and good friend) blogs from the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas (Blogspot) What I've learned: J.R. Simplot on money...

Fun with Fuel Subsidies

Two figures from my weekend reading (via the Economist and FT, respectively) that show the skewed world of fuel subsidies worldwide:...