The fund seeks to soften effects of the financial collapse, but many Asian leaders – citing bad advice from the ’97 crisis – are wary of conditions attached to assistance.
PBS NEWS HOUR Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of “The Black Swan” and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics (and originator of ‘fractal geometry’) .
Both say that the present economy more serious than the Great Depression, and the economy during the American Revolution.
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Wikinvest: Collaborative Sensemaking for Financial Data – information aesthetics
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“Wikinvest.com [wikinvest.com] has a feature called Wikicharts which allows users to share annotations on financial charts (e.g. Apple stock, Google stock). The annotations are displayed in a similar manner to the ones used to indicate news stories (and more) on Google Finance, however they can also span ranges to help explain changes over time” – Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
ObjectStore®
has intoduced its ” Trading Accelerator” which it claims is a highly
scalable, complex event processing system for financial systems,
including market data management, trading and real-time historical
analysis applications.
According to the company with Trading Accelerator, you can:
Collect, correlate and propagate data and events in real time.
Get access to current, historical and intraday data for queries and analytics — at the same time, in real time
In
an equity trading floor application, Trading Accelerator's engine can
provide throughput on real-time data up to 50,000 events a second ,
with sub-second latency.