Another clueless day in the lives of equity traders prompted a conscientious few to finger through our list of regional potentials. Taking a contrarian view on the construction sector, an obscure Jurong Cement (now known by a snazzier name: JCL Readymix) ignited a spark in my pathologically bored mind.   Eagerly typing the function JURC SP Equity CN [...]

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I have been told one too many times, that the run-up to the eventual attainment of the coveted acronym behind your name: Phd, can be a gruelling preview of things to come your way before you’ve secured your seat at a choice institution. There’s the intended-panic-inducing GRE or GMAT, tons upon tons of research journals to plough through in search of your original Research Topic, piles of admissions [...]

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Link Dump: PhD Stuff

August 17, 2010

1. A daily dose of Phd humour (yes, it exists) – phdcomics.com 2. Newsworthy – chronicle.com 3. GRE Test Prep – (i) Graduatetestprep (ii) mygretutor.com 4. Math Magic – lightning speed calculations to aid solving GRE quantitative questions in under 1 minute 5. General advice – Phd survey 6. The Mecca for PhDs – phd.org 7. Top 50 [...]

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Art Collecting 101: Building Your Collection

August 2, 2010
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This is the second installment of my Art Collecting 101 series. Read Part 1 here.   Remember the bygone days of stamp, bottle cap, matchbox or scratch ‘n’ sniff sticker collecting? The sense of satisfaction and happiness that a 20 cent sticker brought? Those were the days before our pocket money got inflated. Despite the hoards of deflationary [...]

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Link Dump: Savvy 7 Forex Blogs

August 2, 2010

1. Babypips – the indispensible first-stop for fx noobs. 2. FX Instructor - great blog for technical chart reading analyses. 3. Forex Initiate – initiation into the FX realm. 4. Currency Thoughts – Deep, deeper and deepest thoughts from Larry Greenberg, a veteran currency economist. 5. Forex Crunch - useful trading tips. 6. Counting Pips – the market informant. [...]

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High Finance

July 29, 2010
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Unlike demand & supply, the bard & the economist doth not an equilibrium point  make. That is, until the arrival of Lew Duffey. His poem, High Finance, is like an op-ed imbued with fluid rhythm and rhyme that does poetic justice to the elusive chase for a truly enlightened economy.

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Link Dump: Data Visualization Websites

July 27, 2010

Churning out eye candy from data, statistics and information: 1. information aesthetics 2. visualcomplexity.com 3. data mining and more 4. flowing data 5. eager eyes

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Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

July 27, 2010

Periodic tables have transcended Nerdvana and are currently very much in vogue. So here’s another one that gives you the different methods of data, information, concept, strategy, metaphor and compound visualization. Click on the image for more interactive details. Or download the pdf version here.

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Spinning the Top of Secrets “R” U.S

July 22, 2010

If James Bond 007, Men in Black, Conspiracy Theory and The X-Files, are your thing, then you will without a doubt, relish Washington Post’s (WP) latest interactive visual representation of the top-secret world created by the US government in the aftermath of 911.  In the name of national security and justifiable paranoia, this huge industry has [...]

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The State of Our Broken Social Scene

July 20, 2010

Oil spills, obscene bankers’ bonuses, obesity, organized religion and obnoxious people are all part of the orthodox world. Those who are not too lazy to think for themselves… even those who reap nominal benefits from it, frown upon the current world order with disdain. On a systemic level, pessimism rules the rationale of these precious few. But on an [...]

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