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Post Number: 5606 Registered: 01-2009 Posted From: 68.46.21.1
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2010 - 07:59 pm: |
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says the smartest wall street hedge fund manager...the guy would be a standing example of brilliance.....veblen prize winner and some one who posed the zeno's paradox when he was effing 8..... I was speaking to a VP at Morgan stanley and he said: "This country takes hard working people and turns their kids into hopeless dumbheads who know only junk music and premature sex.Another decade like this and the US will joing the beggars for some semblance of smartness. I sometimes wish I had married an asian...lol" |
   
Der_schuler
Side Hero Username: Der_schuler
Post Number: 5605 Registered: 01-2009 Posted From: 68.46.21.1
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2010 - 07:56 pm: |
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"After leaving academia in the mid-1970s because its pace was “too slow,” Simons used capital from earlier investments to launch Renaissance Technologies. In the early 1980s, he plucked mathematicians and scientists from universities to pursue highly technical, quasi-scientific techniques for investing. Simons’ mathematical approach netted handsome returns. That’s when he hit a snag. “As an employer,” he said, “it’s more and more difficult for me, if that were my objective, to hire Americans or American-trained-and-born people into the company. We hire research guys in math and physics in reasonable numbers, and almost all of them are non-U.S.” |