Search results

I use Yahoo Finance and Google Finance for market info - I'll sign up to this though EDIT: Disregard that, not 18 for another 2 weeks :rofl2: EDIT2: Macquarie EDGE = $23.95 Commsec = $19.95 (+$600 free brokerage advertised I believe) Mind you apparently there are alot of $1 brokers for US...

If it is full of linear algebra and trig (vectors and crap) like my year 11 maths it is pretty hard if you suck like I did

Problem I see with architecture is you have to do a masters degree to practice as one and if you are at the stage now where you are 'sick' of school and want to just go and work/design stuff you probably will struggle a bit. I'm not sure how architecture works too much though since its such an...

You will have alot more credit as an Entrepreneur if you do a degree at university and you will be exposed to people with similar intrests - there is no reason why you can't start a company while at university (I'm MD of one myself.) Do a degree that you enjoy ontop of all things - that being...

1421: The Year China Discovered The World

Could say that about most models in economics

Economics is beautiful

Died because he was a maths nerd :p

If there is grass on the pitch play ball! If there is no grass on the pitch play beach ball!

Assume marketpower ~ profit, consumers are rational blah blah blah Firm A = $100m profit @ time t, assume 100% of market power @ t+1 Firm B takes 50% market share, profit = 50% each @ t+2 Firm C takes 33% market share, profit = 33% each @ t+inf Firm .......... 0% market share, profit = 0% each...

I am jealous

+1 Or robotics - Psycho-Cybernetics is quite interesting!

Bat flu in America? Buy shares in pesticides! Hurricanes in America? Buy shares in helicopter transformation companies! Earthquakes in the Middle East? Buy shares in window repair companies! Swine flu? Buy shares in Tamiflu! Trading is only hard when you start looking at "will x or y give me...

Spoke to a local member and there is way too much sucking ass to do if you want to get anywhere.

Nice knowing you

I'm in one at the moment - there is a nice episode of South Park that makes fun of the concept. Makes the relationship really cynical and boring.

Operations Research

FYI And I can't find the pretty one >;l

The reason why people do MBAs at Harvard is that they want to network not because they are like "OH WOW MY EMPLOYEE WILL LOVE THIS!" It's the same reason why high schools can justify charging 60x more than I payed - because of networking with kids whose dad's own Company X they want to work for.

If he wants to work in finance it is more important to have an Advanced Mathematics degree (Quant Finance) than an actuarial degree. Chances are you are going to be forced to do atleast Masters or a PhD to get a job as a quant - these programs will be orientated towards people who have...