The saying typically goes “A little bit of sweetness can drown out a whole lot of bitterness.” But here at RCM, the saying “A lot of holiday sweetness is causing us all to enter a chocolate coma that we can’t escape” may more accurately describe our situation. Holidays tend to be centered around all things […]
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Weekend Reads: Destroying Happiness
Because post-soccer sadness lingers for hours while after-match joy is fleeting, a loss actually ends up robbing fans of about four times the amount of happiness they might have gained from a win.
Weekend Reads: Half of American Tech Companies Founded By
Apple founder Steve Jobs is the son of a Syrian immigrant, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is a second generation Cuban immigrant, Google founder Sergey Brin was born in Russia, and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is a Brazilian native. More than half of the top American tech companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants – (CNBC) “I think the data shows we’re a hospitable place for younger […]
Weekend Reads: Horse-Racing Code
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.
Understanding Outliers
He should literally not exist in a world which is normally distributed, being that many standard deviations above the average.
Weekend Reads: CFTC Budget Cuts
The CFTC would receive $249m, $1m less than its current budget and 12% less than the agency had requested.
Initial Coin Offerings > Venture Capital?
Think of Kodak’s KodaKCoin, which will use blockchain technology to create an “encrypted, digital ledger of rights ownership” where photographers can simply and securely register their new and old work, and get paid automatically in KODAKCoin for any usage of their work.
Weekend Reads: FinTech Robo-Retirement
A new breed of robo-retirement startups have positioned themselves to take on incumbents and the $27.3T of assets held in retirement accounts.
Weekend Reads: Cutting Fees, Basic Income, 3% Yield
North American energy producers survived the recent oil bust in large part by selling more than $60 billion of new stock. Now they’re beginning to buy it back. Oil Producers Buying Back Shares After Years of Selling New Stock – (Wall Street Journal) 9.8bn of cash was ploughed into hedge funds last year after […]
Weekend Reads: XIV, Bitcoin, and the Olympics
24-year-old Chicago trader has been charged with fraud for allegedly stealing $2 million in bitcoin and another cryptocurrency from his employer to cover personal trading losses.