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Looks like SNL is finally starting to put Obama in the cross-hairs: The funniest part (a little rude, but funny nonetheless) is about 2/3 of the way through - "Will you kiss me? I believe it is the polite thing to do when someone is doing sex to me!" Not a good sign for the President - to ...
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Barack Obama
A friend just sent this. They call this guy (Robert Muraine) "Mr Fantastic" after the rubber-limbed comic-book hero in the Fantastic Four I used to have what's called hyper-mobile shoulders (and some other joints) - I could easily get my elbows well past each other behind my back, do full ...
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financialrounds.blogspot.com - 10 days ago
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This sounds like a couple of my students.
For some reason, family deaths always seem to increase...
around exam time.
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Scott Adams Must Be Eavesdropping on My Email
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Yesterday, I thought I was coming down with something - I had a sore throat when I went to bed, and I woke up this morning feeling kind of blah. So, I thought I'd muddle through my classes (unfortunately, it's my long teaching day), and then come home and go to bed. By the end of the day, I ...
Stocks
financialrounds.blogspot.com - 15 days ago
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Yesterday, I thought I was coming down with
something - I had a sore throat when I...
went to bed, and I woke up this morning feeling kind of blah. So, I thought I'd muddle through my classes (unfortunately, it's my long teaching day), and then come ...
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Spreadsheets, Spreadsheet, and More Spreadsheets.
The Equity Risk Premium is one of the central concepts of finance theory and practice. However, when we teach it in class (usually as part of the CAPM), we tend to do a lot of hand-waving and tell students to use historical ERPs. Aswath Damodaran of New York University has an excellent piece on ...
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Risk Management
The URI College of Business Administration is proud to be a CFA program partner. As part of that partnership, we offer scholarships to a select group of students that allow them to take the CFA Level 1 exam at a small fraction of the cost that they would otherwise pay (the scholarship reduces ...
Commodities
financialrounds.blogspot.com - 20 days ago
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Disclaimer: the following post is not for the
faint of heart (or for those who have an...
overly developed sense of propriety). But then again, most of my readers aren't in those categories anyway. Since I recently turned 50, I got to have that little ...
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The Unknown Colonoscopy