Category Archives: Markets
Tron Legacy
I remember as a child walking out of the movie Tron and thinking "I love anything to do with the future". Movies like Tron, War Games and Star Wars were the seeding inspiration around my life as a product builder in financial markets and more recently in web applications.
What’s really interesting is how Apple is [...]
Systemic Monopolies
Systemic Monopolies are a problem I have long thought exists in our less than ideal form of capitalism.
We think of traditional monopolies as being about a business having some unique advantage or forming some sort of cartel to dominate a market. While most economies have mechanisms to prevent this they equally create what I call [...]
3 Big Stories of 2008
Wotnews.com.au the news arm of Wotif.com has posted the 3 big stories of 2008 according to various CEOs, Gov and Industry leaders. My three were:
The Death of Capitalism (as we know it)
A defining year in financial markets with the emergence of a new species of company that will cause the re-writing of so many economic [...]
The Blame Game - Hunting Financial Witches
Who’s at fault in the financial crisis? I hate witch hunts, they always seem to burn the wrong person in the end. However I must say that I can’t disagree with restricting payouts to people leaving sinking ships.
One party who needs to be held more accountable are the Federal Reserves. For at least a [...]
The Short Selling Ban - Regulator Legal Liability?
Stop feeding the bears cry the Zookeepers!!!
When regulators ban short selling do they have a legal liability to the mum’s and dad’s, fund managers and traders who lose money from this almost instant change in regulated markets? I’d love to see what some of the big legal firms think on this.
(Update: Just read Sean’s Stubborn [...]
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