A Hard Year For Heroes (or, An Ode To Staying Power) By: J. Litle | - If your retirement account is in good shape this year, you are ahead of Wall Street's finest. One of the world's largest hedge funds has nearly been cut in half.
John Paulson made billions with a huge bet on the housing bubble. His success attracted a flood of capital. At the peak, Paulson's funds managed a whopping $38 billion.
In 2011, though, John Paulson made another huge bet on economic recovery -- a forecast that never came to pass.
How To Keep Rogue Trades Out Of Your Investment Portfolio By: J. Litle | - The parallels to 2008 keep piling up.
Early that year, French bank Socit Gnrale revealed $7.2 billion in losses (that's billion with a "b") at the hands of a single rogue trader. The culprit: A 31-year-old trader named Jerome Kerviel.
The Socit Gnrale losses came on a massive $73 billion worth of positions, which Kerviel hid by hacking the bank's computers. After that devastating hit, SocGen instituted a whole new slew of watchdog rules, such as "be wary of traders wh ... Tags:Banks, Investment Portfolio, Justice Litle, Macro Trader, Market Manipulation, Safe Investments
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As a young boy my father would encourage me to get up onto the roof of our house to clean the spouting. Our home backed onto a large paddock which I think must have had at least a dozen large pine trees, which were forever filling our spouting and ultimately blocking it.
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Atrazine Lawsuits Still A Battle In Illinois By: Sue Schulte | - As growing season approaches, all of us at the Kansas Corn Growers Association cant help but follow the lawsuits in Madison County, Illinois against atrazine manufacturers and retailers. The state of Illinois, much like Kansas, depends on agriculture to survive and many farmers in this region use atrazine to stay profitable. I recently ran across an article in the Madison/St. Clair Record that sums up the fight against these lawsuits very well. The author, Ed Murnane of the Illinois Civil Jus ... Tags:atrazine
Advertising used to be a risky venture. You clear for a TV spot, billboard or radio ad aimed towards an assumed targeted market, and pray. Nowadays, it's such easier, not to name cost-effective.
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The Seven Secrets Of The Rich ? Part 3 Of 7 Gamble, But Wisely. By: Dario Lorenzo | - Risk-taking seems to be built into the DNA of the rich. Not surprisingly many are avid card players, such as financier Henry Kravis, Investor Steven Cohen and Carl Icahn and the nations most famous bridge partners, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
We all want to make money from trading, and we all want to make millions from the stock market of the forex market. However it is a well know fact that over 90% of traders will in fact go broke and not become successful. So if we are to look at who does become successful there is a group of people that tend to become more successful than others.
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