Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

Recently, a very nice individual alerted me to Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, which you can download for free in the format of your choice.
Little Brother looks like an interesting read. I’ve downloaded it within an hour of typing these lines and read the first two pages. I’ll write a full review later, if [...]

While reading Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff’s dry-but-delightful This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, I came across a reference to David Hale’s “The Newfoundland Lesson” on page 83.
Newfoundland became the first self-governing dominion of the British Empire in 1855, and ceased to exist as a self-governing entity in 1934, after [...]

An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets by Donald MacKenzie (2006 MIT Press, paperback edition: 2008) is the book that every student of Finance should read before beginning the first semester of his or her program.
An Engine, Not a Camera covers the history of modern finance from Modigliani-Miller through the Capital Asset [...]

Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, says that individuals no longer have an expectation of privacy, as evidenced by the growing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook.
Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, is quoted saying, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
George [...]