Sents NY - Design and Apparel
This environent is pretty ideal for an opportunist who knows what to do. There are highly qualified professionals out there desperately seeking work, PHDs trolling streets wearing a billboard made of their resume. Labor has become cheaper, businesses need to generate income (sales sales sales).
2 years from now people will look back and kick themselves [...]
I like money. I like art. I love money art. Though not a fan of those that disfigures the money, I’m amazed at the creativity people can come up with, namely the origami hats
So simple, yet this is something that I would pay to have. I guess it could double as some sort of anti-war [...]
As per Bloomberg regarding the Maddoff possible 50 billion dollar ponzi scheme -
“Another client was Fix Asset Management, which had an account worth at least $400 million with Madoff Investments. The firm said it’s checking with lawyers about the holdings.
“We are very shocked,” John Fix, the son of founder Charles Fix, said by [...]
So I dont know if anyone is aware, but the iTunes store charges taxes. Yes, I was appalled too that if you actually shell out money to buy a song, that 99 cent song is actually $1.06. Which is really pretty ridiculous considering that someone would actually buy a song to begin with and [...]
What does the future hold ?
That is never certain, but one thing is for certain– with the holidays coming up, holiday parties will no longer be the same. Gone will be the times of renting out extravagant restaurants, clubs or even museums (a la Blackrock)
In comes McDonalds, Meeting room parties (a la Dunder Mifflin) [...]
Will the market pull a re-run of last time there was a D in the house? Time will tell….
My instincts shakes its head.
NYT has a good article on the next new baller occupation. Piracy.
Of the boating kind.
All you need is three guys and a little boat,
and the next day you’re millionaires,
said Abdullahi Omar Qawden, a former captain in
Somalia’s long-defunct navy.
Pirates are now at the top of the town’s social class,
the only ones with money for Western-made [...]
WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN from ABOVE on Vimeo.
So in my lifetime…ive been on a few (ok, a lot of *interviews…) and I’ve always kept the business cards of the people I met. There was one guy that kinda stuck out in my head cause he pretty much chuckled at my resume when I interviewed there for an internship within the distressed arb [...]
So with certain banks teetering at the edge of failure and mass hysteria of people worried over their money, I think now would be a good time to bring up the FDIC insured policy which covers only 100k in cash. This will only work for 100k cash in YOUR NAME, so splitting it into [...]