My New Interest: Finance & Robots
Its really strange how my playfull brain just jumps onto new things - to stay teased and occupied and learning. Ive earlier stated that robots are on the radar - and now Finance is also starting to be daily on the radar. Not stocks and shit - thats not for me - somehow its does not move me. But the big LBOs (Kapital buying enourmous companies - by restructuring their dept - and hedgefunds doing their good/bad impact - and now Im trying to find my way into that jungle - with HIGH ETICHS and 100% MORAL. It seems very simple - NOT EASY. … more to come.
Glad and impressed that you mention ethics and moral in capital letters, since the latter are unfortunately often absent in the LBO business. In case you have not heard of the following bad examples, here are two worthwhile sources you may want to check out:
(1) For an insightful and interesting (though a bit biased) documentation (54min) on The Carlyle Group and their interpretation of ethics, note the following link (as remarked on Wikipedia.com: do not get irritated by the first 1.43min of this program since is broadcast in Dutch, the remainder, however, is in English):
http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/vpro/tegenlicht/bb.20040125.rm?title=Bekijk%20hier%20de%20uitzending%20DE%20IJZEREN%20DRIEHOEK%20in%20realvideo%20BREEDBAND%20tot%20500%20kbs
(2) Another nice example on moral, ethics and greed in the LBO business see the classic book: Barbarian at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_gate), which is a nice read and is probably still pretty accurate, though over 15 years old, and many of the actors are still active today.
Thomas
July 27, 2006
Robotic Nation Evidence
http://roboticnation.blogspot.com/
Dimitar Vesselinov
July 30, 2006
Ahlan!
Check this out!
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William_oh
June 11, 2007
And some more..
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Elena_gl
June 11, 2007
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Gordon_gc
July 27, 2007