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π Day
Do you know today, March 14, is Pi Day? And 1:59 pm is commonly called Pie Minute?
According to Wikipedia, π, in Euclidean plane geometry, is defined “either as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, or as the ratio of a circle’s area to the area of a square whose side is the [...]
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Bloody Day Today
For a day like today, there’s simply no escape.
With Dow off more than 260 points, the deepest drop since 2003, everywhere I look, all I see is red. When I checked my Scottrade account couple of minutes ago, I found my paper assets have shrunk nearly $8,000 already and that’s just stocks. The total loss [...]
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One’s Trash is Other’s Gold
Bloomberg.com today has a story about a Chinese woman, Zhang Ying, and her company Nine Dragons Paper Holdings Ltd. The article says
Zhang is the world's richest self-made woman, ahead of U.S. chat show host Oprah Winfrey and EBay Inc. Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman, according to Shanghai-based Hurun Report, which ranks wealthy people in China.
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Fool Me Once ……
A couple of days ago, I forwarded a story from MSN Money about how Capital One is trying to collect more fees by giving people low-limit credit cards so that they can easily overspent with cards. While Capital One's practice of helping people accumulating more debts should be condemned, the center figures in the story, [...]
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