why would he complain about google snagging math teachers? By making information more easily accessible, google allows for the more efficient...
^agreed
No offense, but you don't really understand Facebook. You might be right regarding their overvaluation (see my previous post), but they could grow...
GS will collect so much in fees over the years having facebook as a client, it doesn't really matter. I mean, nobody can really say how this...
Completely different. CDOs and especially synthetic CDOs are opaque, illiquid, and difficult to value. The problem was deceiving clients regarding...
Undergrad institution matters a lot if you just want plain old Sales and Trading at an investment bank. 100-125 is too low of a ranking for...
Look, I am as pragmatic as it gets. But the symbolism here isn't irrelevant. Showing complete apathy to human suffering isn't good PR. If the...
you really can't look at one off examples. You have to look at this this in probabilistic terms. A good outcome DOES NOT indicate a smart process....
^do you think the people at Goldman Sachs got in without degrees or just vocational school? You can't even work institutional sales anymore unless...
this site is full of losers. I'm not saying I'm some super winner, either. But come on. My friends with Ivy league degrees work for top tier...
^unless you're actually intelligent and went to a good college, in which case you work at Goldman Sachs, Bain, BCG, etc. Most engineers make...
I looked it up out of curiosity. You're wrong. http://www.sunysb.edu/economics/undergrad/requirements/ A minimum of 11 courses, at least 9...
the specific degree isn't so important What matters is signaling that you're smart. That's why if you take enough math you'll be ok if you went...
A 3.72 GPA in econ means nothing unless you went to a top school. Undergrad econ is a joke at most schools. How much math do you know? For an econ...
I intend on teaching in South Korea. Even as a foreigner you can earn 50/hour teaching English immersion.
most people on ET are stupid and got low SATs. If they had high SATs and went to Harvard, MIT, Princeton, etc. they would understand. They would...
well, the S&P might not be the best proxy these days, either. Most financial advisers tell aggressive investors to hold 80% equity, 20% fixed...
Finance profs. are generally pretty dumb. MBAs are so worthless. They don't understand stats at all. How you could extrapolate anything from such...
computing parametric VaR is very easy if you've taken a semester of stats and econometrics; it's not quantum physics. That's the problem. How do...
I agree that we're in deflationary depression. I am unconvinced by any of the hyperinflation arguments. We're still well above NAIRU so even the...
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