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Irwin Liu: January 2009
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Saturday, January 3, 2009. A Pyramid Scheme Would Never Have Worked for Madoff. You've probably heard about the Bernard Madoff investment scandal, in which investors were fleeced of $50 billion. It has resulted in at least one investor committing suicide. And just today Madoff agreed to submit a list. Of assets, liabilities and property to the SEC and we may finally have visibility to the extent of his fraud. The differences are that:. Will be the source of payout for the initial investments. A pyramid s...
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Irwin Liu: A Pyramid Scheme Would Never Have Worked for Madoff
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Saturday, January 3, 2009. A Pyramid Scheme Would Never Have Worked for Madoff. You've probably heard about the Bernard Madoff investment scandal, in which investors were fleeced of $50 billion. It has resulted in at least one investor committing suicide. And just today Madoff agreed to submit a list. Of assets, liabilities and property to the SEC and we may finally have visibility to the extent of his fraud. The differences are that:. Will be the source of payout for the initial investments. A pyramid s...
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Irwin Liu: February 2009
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Saturday, February 7, 2009. Of Pygmies and Auto Unions. I'm currently reading a book called Stumbling on Happiness. Written by a Harvard psychology professor. It's a fascinating book that is part psychology, part philosophy, part cognitive neuroscience, part behavioural economics and all highly recommended. It aims to systematically and irrefutably answer the question, "Why do people so poorly imagine their ideal futures that they are rarely happy when they achieve them? The key difference between spacia...
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Irwin Liu: Hello World!
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Saturday, January 3, 2009. Welcome to my blog and the first of what I hope to be many posts. First thing that I'd like to do is to thank my sisters in law (or is it sister in laws? Katrina ( http:/ www.katrinaschaman.com/. For designing the template for my blog and Jessika for ( http:/ dimsumsimon.blogspot.com/. Helping me overcome my initial inertia by starting her own blog over the Christmas break. To serve as a forum for me to express my opinions. To help bring structure. To serve as a repository.
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Irwin Liu: Of Pygmies and Auto Unions
http://irwinliu.blogspot.com/2009/02/of-pygmies-and-auto-unions.html
Saturday, February 7, 2009. Of Pygmies and Auto Unions. I'm currently reading a book called Stumbling on Happiness. Written by a Harvard psychology professor. It's a fascinating book that is part psychology, part philosophy, part cognitive neuroscience, part behavioural economics and all highly recommended. It aims to systematically and irrefutably answer the question, "Why do people so poorly imagine their ideal futures that they are rarely happy when they achieve them? The key difference between spacia...