Last month Morgan Stanley put together a presentation of some analysis that it had conducted on “developing internet trends.” Below you will find the presentation followed by some comments. I apologize for the comments being poorly outlined below the presentation itself, but due to copy write restrictions I was unable to edit the original presentation.
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Below is an essay that I completed for a course in monetary policy. The goal was to critically appraise financial regulation efforts in light of the recent financial crisis. Essay Prompt: Drawing on the experience of the Great Financial Crisis, critically appraise how changes in the system of financial regulation might assist avoidance of future such [...]
Monday started off with class early in the morning. I then headed to the Co-Op Bookstore to buy a textbook. Unfortunately for me, I was given the wrong directions. After an hour and a half of walking I finally got to the Co-Op only to find that I was at the wrong place and they [...]
That both English and Java are called languages is no coincidence. You use a language to express ideas. English expresses ideas to people, and Java expresses ideas to computers. What’s more, both English and Java have things like words, names, and punctuation. In fact, the biggest difference between the two languages is that Java is [...]
This past week was Sydney Uni’s first official week of classes, so I woke up early Monday morning only to find out that my schedule didn’t actually have me starting classes until Thursday. Naturally, I went back to sleep. I woke up later that afternoon to the voices of my roommates complaining about how awful their [...]
Here’s a crazy suggestion, why not freely allow — but also tax — activities that harm other people? Well, that is the basic logic behind Pigovian taxes. With a Pigovian tax in place there is always an incentive to reduce the negative externality that is being taxed upon (such as pollution). In contrast stands regulation. [...]
Last Friday Twitter engineer Alex Payne (@al3x) tweeted, “If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to use a desktop client. (You will soon.)” All hell broke loose shortly after as the blogosphere erupted into a collective spazz, making wild assumptions based on Payne’s tweet.
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This week started off rather early with a 9:00am Econ Orientation Session. I ended up getting a free lunch out of it, so waking up early on a Monday morning wasn’t all too bad! After Orientation I headed into downtown to look for a job, ending my search with a couple of possibilities. I’m not [...]
Late yesterday afternoon Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced a piece of legislation dubbed “The Startup Visa Act.” With support from over 100 US venture capital and angel investors (including top players Y Combinator and Foundry Group), The Startup Visa Act represents a step in the right direction towards proper immigration reform. The [...]
Sooner or later most of the large social networking sites are going to come to the sad realization that they grew too fast. As Facebook actively develops a new data center one has to stop and wonder how much useless information they are storing on their servers. And I’m not talking about drunk photos and [...]