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MoneyScience Twitter Review - January 2010

Tuesday Jan 05, 13:28PM

Happy New Year from the Team at MoneyScience!
2010 in Richistan: The Year of the Muddling Millionaires - http://bit.ly/7m8s6W
RT @Risk_Mgmt Credit models and the crisis, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the CDOs - http://bit.ly/5uikWE
Economics in a Full World - Herman Daly (1995, pdf) http://bit.ly/4CMUfQ
@MadameButcher eFinancialCareers predictions for financial technology hiring in 2010 - http://bit.ly/4p6wvF
Popular MoneyScience 2009 - our most popular articles by page views in 2009 - http://bit.ly/7VH1Rt
Leave bankers alone, says British Bankers' Association's Angela Knight - http://bit.ly/82UnCG
Bankers, Economists Say Gold Is a Bubble: Here's Why You Should Ignore Them - http://bit.ly/5EnTQM
RT @felixsalmon - a solid mathematical demonstration that CDOs simply can’t be priced http://bit.ly/8UfcZi
Criticisms of Econophysics and Econophysics in the Philippines - http://bit.ly/72XW9O
How Overhauling Derivatives Died http://bit.ly/5csAwq
Worldometers - real time world statistics - http://bit.ly/8ipiwF
Should Investment Firms Bet Against Their Clients? http://bit.ly/6SJQNH
Quite funny. In which Pooh learns that honey isn’t everything - http://bit.ly/6SY247
BBC: City Diaries http://bit.ly/8MHmLW
How To Rise Fast At Work: A True Story. http://bit.ly/6QIvjj
A survey finds 71% of respondents have insured the contents of their home, while only 15% insured themselves.http://bit.ly/4so6ex
It's official: the hardest working bankers in Europe are... Dealmakers at Rothschild. http://bit.ly/6ipKbe
2010: The Year to Focus on Sovereign Debt- http://bit.ly/7zcpKk
Frankfurt MathFinance Conference 2010 - March 15-16th, 2010 http://bit.ly/6SKbrN
RT @psyfitec - A Sideways Look At ... Behavioral Bias - http://bit.ly/5rpLuF
Comment: The exodus of bankers from London might be about to accelerate - http://bit.ly/6jLNRw
Technology in finance 2009: Good year vs. bad year - http://bit.ly/8kS5ac
The Guardian's Business Year in Pictures - http://bit.ly/5nvHK1
James Montier on the superiority of models over human judgement - "Painting by numbers: an ode to quant" (2006) http://bit.ly/4QdIHt
A particularly harsh assessment of Paul Samuelson's legacy. http://bit.ly/7YYk63
Knowing and Making http://bit.ly/5ESxsS
The Psy-Fi Blog http://bit.ly/6vEtD7
8 Security Threats to banks in 2010 - http://bit.ly/6LbNAZ
Season's Greetings from the Team at MoneyScience! http://bit.ly/52262l
Breaking the bank: finding value amid the debris - http://bit.ly/65OyBd
The UK's Office of Fair Trading has dropped its investigation into the fairness of bank overdraft charges http://bit.ly/4MtXZj
MIT Open Courseware -Practice of Finance - Advanced Corporate Risk Management http://bit.ly/65YOXR
Q&A: With Joel Waldfogel author of Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays - http://bit.ly/6gmGSc
The ups and downs of a floor trader - http://bit.ly/7eCa2W
Ten things to know about portfolio rebalancing http://bit.ly/7ZLT4q
RT @SimoleonSense - @SSRN Credit Derivatives Are Not 'Insurance' - http://bit.ly/5koiXE
Brushing aside concerns over tax on bonuses, Bankers are buying prime property in London in record numbers. http://bit.ly/81quUF
Meet The Sith Lords: The 20 People Alleged To Be Part Of A Shadowy Short-Selling Conspiracy http://bit.ly/8WyiZr
Levy Random Bridges and the Modelling of Financial Information - http://bit.ly/8De0yb
Summary of CDS Clearing Initiatives - http://bit.ly/5NnnLU
Employment - Postdoctoral Researcher in Financial Mathematics (3 year contract), DCU, Dublin - http://bit.ly/5X1lBb
Basel Committee: Proposals to strengthen the resilience of the banking sector - http://bit.ly/7upHFj
Taking its cue from the UK, France Plans to Tax Bankers' Bonuses at 50% - http://bit.ly/6P242T
UK to Say Too Much Extra Capital Would Kill Off Derivatives -http://bit.ly/58QFLc
Risk Management Monitor http://bit.ly/5kgUvj
Financial News and Blogs Homepage at MoneyScience - http://bit.ly/80nnZ
RT @RiskMgmtMonitor - Thank Tiger for the New Reputational Risk Insurance http://bit.ly/7RS3LK
RT @psyfitec - Zombies in the City of London http://bit.ly/7dwN9P
@SSRN -'The Risk Externalities of Too Big to Fail' by Nassim Taleb and Charles Tapiero - http://bit.ly/7b92bp
@SimoleonSense - Interesting Video: the concept of fractalization of markets - http://bit.ly/5shL3r
Richard Roll Selected as the Recipient of the 2009 IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year Award - http://bit.ly/7s6N2d
Did I mention..? Popular MoneyScience 2009.100 of the most popular items posted on the site. http://bit.ly/7VH1Rt
It looks like they are limited previews try: "quantitative finance" on Google Books - http://bit.ly/7PBUai
Is this legal now? Emanuel Derman's 'My life as a Quant' on Google Books - http://bit.ly/6PQhRX
Dark pools harming price discovery in Europe – study http://bit.ly/5hy3kk
Burton Malkiel: High-frequency trading is a natural part of market evolution - http://bit.ly/8cRMT3
The Future Financial Landscape - Speech by David Miles External Member of the UK Monetary Policy Committee - http://bit.ly/8GukO7
Interview: Top Blogger @felixsalmon on Journalism and its Business Models http://bit.ly/5vEl7v
There have been hedgehogs; there have been foxes; and then there was Paul Samuelson. http://bit.ly/6td70N
Popular MoneyScience 2009! Our review of the most popular articles posted on the site in 2009! http://bit.ly/7VH1Rt
US Treasury Announces Proposed New Regulatory Regime for OTC Derivatives - http://bit.ly/52CQSY
Not Losing Is New Winning as Bankers Dilute Overhaul - http://bit.ly/6MkQIb
James Montier's Summer 09 Reading List http://bit.ly/5vWBCg
DerivativeEngines http://bit.ly/92T8qt
Behavioural Finance Working Group at Cass Business School http://bit.ly/7GryJI
Must-Have R Packages for Social Scientists http://bit.ly/8QEvlk
RQuantLib interface from GNU R to QuantLib http://bit.ly/6XYYtC
Victor Niederhoffer: Tiger Woods' Downfall Is Bad News For The Stock Market http://bit.ly/6ilk6W
What Determines Mutual Fund Size? - Yonathan Schwarzkopf and J. Doyne Farmer http://bit.ly/64tSsZ
Billionaires and politics - http://bit.ly/7up5sj
Citigroup has said it will repay $20bn of US bail-out funding - http://bit.ly/56SVGf
The Annual Quantitative Mathods in Finance (QMF) Conference starts tomorrow in Sydney. http://bit.ly/4oyAj7
Paul Wilmott on the UK Bonus Tax in the NYT - http://bit.ly/7OMZhq
Rayane Hage-Ali, Postgrad in Quantitative Finance seeks private tutor in London. Good rates. Contact: quantitativefinance@hotmail.com
Video - Cass Professor, Shelagh Heffernan on repairing the UK's financial system - http://bit.ly/5TU4FI
@SimoleonSense - American Bankers Association Comes Out Against Bank Reform http://bit.ly/51BxC8
@fdestin - The Arrogant VC: A View From the Trenches - http://bit.ly/6c4ynR
Always Great @SimoleonSense - Weekly Wisdom Roundup - http://bit.ly/4QhmJg
RT @aiki14 - The Old Guard Ushers in The New Paradigm in Finance Journalism - http://bit.ly/5ZXZMg
@wallstCS - The Economics of Marijuana Reform - http://bit.ly/92TQtC
@wallstCS - Interview with Justin Fox, author of The Myth of the Rational Market - http://bit.ly/5jGyOa
Paul Samuelson, Nobel Economics Laureate, Dies at 94 - Selected Obituaries - http://bit.ly/82dmzK
BBC deletes Trafigura story on toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast after legal threats - http://bit.ly/8Bik9r
'A Former Investment Banking Analyst Falls Back on Plan B' or 'How not to fill in an application for an MBA course'. http://bit.ly/63fZEN
Not long ago, Alphaville ran an article suggesting that ETF traders are the commodity du jour. http://bit.ly/6grLKg
Sovereign debt burdens keep traders on red alert - http://bit.ly/6b7a1W
Rolling Stone Magazine on Obama and the Bankers. http://bit.ly/8coFyx
Global financial crisis: What policy responses do markets favour? http://bit.ly/5dZuwF
Overview: The Quantitative Revolution and the Crisis: How Have Quantitative Financial Models Been Used and Misused http://bit.ly/7UVjdo
A study suggests that hospital cleaners are worth more to society than bankers, http://bit.ly/7zugpL
In the nick of time - Abu Dhabi bails out Dubai with $10 billion http://bit.ly/5RVXTO
Bankers 'whacked' in arcade game http://bit.ly/8FZMaR
US House Passes Historic Wall St. Reform Act - http://bit.ly/4TbkQq
How To Kill OTC Derivatives Reform in Two Sentences - http://bit.ly/6ReIbb
A brief hiatus from updates while I attend meetings in London and go to the Future 500 annual bash this evening. Back on the case tomorrow!
@Deepfoo Sonification - An audio file created in 2003 by converting price fluctuations for a stock into musical notes. http://bit.ly/77ouSu
Does this sound reasonable? Junior investment bankers are not on the minimum wage, but they’re close - http://bit.ly/4Ws3Ou
MoneyScience - 100 Most Recent Posts - http://bit.ly/16VbBJ
Alistair Darling announces a one-off super-tax of more than 50% on the bonuses of tens of thousands of bankers http://bit.ly/8brPq2
Mark Joshi has updated his classic guide: On Becoming a Quant. http://bit.ly/5OyNec
With just a few hours to go before this year's pre-budget report, City traders are in a particularly cautious mood http://bit.ly/6qO0gn
Dubai keeps its head in the sand - http://bit.ly/8YRwDP
@SSRN - Stock Splits, a Survey - http://bit.ly/4WiByj
Hedge Fund Focus 08-12-09 - Hedge Fund News, Links and Resources at MoneyScience. http://bit.ly/4vN3a0
Banco Santander has been named Global Bank of the Year at the 2009 Banker magazine’s Bank of the Year Awards. http://bit.ly/5wXH6C
From Bachelier to Bust - http://bit.ly/76aaHd
A horrifying thing: Seeing a 24-year-old walk away from his bonus meeting with 1/2 a million & looking disgusted by it http://bit.ly/8gRWwn
Hardcore - From Finance to Cosmology: The Copula of Large-Scale Structure - http://bit.ly/813ttl
The wage premium of ambidextrous footballers - do wages reflect marginal productivity? http://bit.ly/5txguw
According to this article: when it comes to infidelity, money has a bigger impact on women than men http://bit.ly/73mheS
Video - American Finance Association History of Finance Interviews http://bit.ly/4oZ09t
Cass-Capco Institute Paper Series on Risk Conference - April 2010 - http://bit.ly/5Rh6bG
Why did they close Washington Mutual? http://bit.ly/8huY03
Quantitative finance is much like science. http://bit.ly/51zEWv
Job: Lecturer in Finance, The Manchester Accounting and Finance Group, part of Manchester Business School - http://bit.ly/7tvPe8
Thomson Reuters has added real-time analysis of US company events to its machine-readable news offering. http://bit.ly/7YvMIY
North Korea currency reform sparks anger - http://bit.ly/7G6pw4
@psyfitec - We’re in the middle of one of the most dramatic experiments financial markets have ever seen. http://bit.ly/4KghZn
The case for a windfall tax on bank bonuses. Pros (http://bit.ly/5DJ4p5) and Cons (http://bit.ly/5Q9sCJ).
Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse? Persistent Bias in the Face of Experience, Competition, and High Stakes - http://bit.ly/5RhBtx
Brian Sentance offers a review of the Quant Invest 2009 event which took place last week in Paris - http://bit.ly/678UJ0
The oil price and the macroeconomy: What’s going on? http://bit.ly/8EMLze
An editorial calling for action from world leaders on climate change published in 56 newspapers in 20 languages .http://bit.ly/5nBYIh
@FTAlphaville - Nakheel and the sukuk legal spook - http://bit.ly/5OuvoR
A court has fined the Tokyo Stock Exchange 10.7bn yen ($121m; £73m) for a huge trading error in 2005. http://bit.ly/5Njx94
BBC: City Diaries http://bit.ly/78Zgvn
The great RBS exodus: 1,000 bankers quit over bonus row - http://bit.ly/7HrEzA
Not exactly MoneyScience: Five things about the World Cup draw - http://bit.ly/7caF17
abnormalreturns -What is Seeking Alpha going to do with that new cash? http://bit.ly/6u2146 (via @newrulesinvest) $$

@AbnormalReturns - Quants in the news - http://bit.ly/7qGBnr

Mathematical Notation Gets an Upgrade - http://bit.ly/7M3Zw9

Leading American economists back campaign for 'Tobin tax' - http://bit.ly/7yrsdV

Lottery Traders by Meir Statman http://bit.ly/85Wxi8

RT@psyfitec - The Lottery of Stock Picking - http://bit.ly/8qHP4G

#FollowFriday - @ChicagoDiane, @actuary21c, @MrVikas, @Kysen, @ericjackson, @hedgiereport, @jimmahar, @john_avery, @abnormalreturns

Geeks trump alpha males as algos dominate Wall St - http://bit.ly/59Bs7S

Goldman: Look, we really do deserve these bonuses - http://bit.ly/76n5ms

The National University of Singapore establishes the Saw Centre for Quantitative Finance - http://bit.ly/6k1Iwc

The Greatest Deception in the History of Finance - http://bit.ly/4XtHoI

@SSRN - Recent Papers in Derivatives - November 2009 - http://bit.ly/6sgQvw

Security Issue Timing: What Do Managers Know, and When Do They Know It? http://bit.ly/6dstBH

According to this research, approx 25% of individual variation in portfolio risk is due to genetic variation. http://bit.ly/8C1FlC

On the Relationship between Asian Sovereign Credit Default Swap Markets and Equity Markets - http://bit.ly/5PfbAt

The German government aims to revive the market for the securisation of credit default risks - http://bit.ly/8xIzty

Shorting: The Math - http://bit.ly/4rNVZI

Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents For The Holidays - http://bit.ly/5674a3

To Regulate or Not to Regulate? The NY Academy of Sciences Quant Finance Discussion Group meets today: http://bit.ly/8Iu6KI

Twice a year, the chairmen and CEOs of Europe's biggest banks gather in secret for a chinwag. http://bit.ly/8fw9PR

Not without Irony. Video: Burj Al Arab - The world's only seven star hotel. http://bit.ly/4ras6t

The Silver Lining Effect: Formal Analysis and Experiments - 'I have some good news and some bad news' - http://bit.ly/8XaGWX

Joe Lewis: currency trader with taste for a fight - http://bit.ly/6g6AKp

How Islamic finance missed heavenly chance - http://bit.ly/6v0zOh

RT @SimoleonSense: How Fractals Can Explain What's Wrong with Wall Street - 2008 article from Scientific American http://bit.ly/772g5I

A sort of stock exchange meets criminal syndicate - Somali sea gangs lure investors at pirate lair: http://bit.ly/8kILY7

According to this video, Goldman Bankers are packing heat. http://bit.ly/6ZUynZ

Cramer reverses his stance on stock-trade levy after death-threats: http://bit.ly/4YrNDZ

Obituary: Ari Kiev, a Psychiatrist, Dies at 75. http://bit.ly/68bBaA

High Frequency Trading Focus Page at Thompson Reuters http://bit.ly/5GCNA9

RBS bonus pool now under government control - http://bit.ly/4QxnLq

Econophysicist Predicts Rogue Financial Waves - http://bit.ly/8zMLVr

Escaping the UK tax regime isn’t that easy - http://bit.ly/6Ag78w

@FelixSalmon - slightly scary - The economics of credit card debt: http://bit.ly/5H7wHf

Assignable problems for Mark Joshi's book, The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance - http://bit.ly/4ruct4

Wow. November was a busy month. @MoneyScience Twitter Review - December 2009: http://bit.ly/8lzayt

"Where next for the ruling family in Dubai?" http://bit.ly/8511dP

For the last couple of years, the running joke on Wall Street was “Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or goodbye.”- http://bit.ly/83fBeI

This Time is Different - A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises http://bit.ly/7HRsVs

Good debate on Twitter over in the comments section of this article at The Big Picture - http://bit.ly/7dXubs

When is a sukuk not a sukuk? When it fails to be shariah compliant, of course - http://bit.ly/7L1Ykf

The UK government spent more than £80m on private consultants to advise them on the bailout of HBOS and RBS http://bit.ly/7kmgNG

Searched Twitter for @moneyscience: http://tinyurl.com/ylhpcsk

Shhhhhh. Christmas Parties in The City - http://bit.ly/8AH0w7

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