“We doc­u­ment wide­spread changes to the his­tor­i­cal I/​B/​E/​S ana­lyst stock rec­om­men­da­tions data­base. Across seven I/​B/​E/​S down­loads, obtained between 2000 and 2007, we find that between 6,580 (1.6%) and 97,582 (21.7%) of matched obser­va­tions are dif­fer­ent from one down­load to the next. The changes include alter­ations of rec­om­men­da­tions, addi­tions and dele­tions of records, and removal of ana­lyst names. These changes are non­ran­dom, clus­ter­ing by ana­lyst rep­u­ta­tion, bro­ker size and sta­tus, and rec­om­men­da­tion bold­ness, and affect trad­ing sig­nal clas­si­fi­ca­tions and back-​​tests of three styl­ized facts: prof­itabil­ity of trad­ing sig­nals, prof­itabil­ity of con­sen­sus rec­om­men­da­tion changes, and per­sis­tence in indi­vid­ual ana­lyst stock-​​picking ability.”

Maybe Ann Arbor will re-​​expose the buried Allen Creek

“By tak­ing a relax­ing and regen­er­a­tive break at least every 90 min­utes, you increase your capac­ity to do more work. Just like your mus­cles need to relax after they tense up, you need to relax after short bursts of focused work. Obvi­ously you don’t want to only take breaks. There needs to be a bal­ance and a blend of relax­ation and focused effort. But it’s amaz­ing how many peo­ple for­get the relax­ation aspect.”

“We are look­ing at a con­cen­tra­tion of polit­i­cal power in the US bank­ing sys­tem that we haven’t seen since the 1830s: Shades of Andrew Jack­son vs. the Sec­ond Bank of the United States. We put up with a lot from our bank­ing elite in this coun­try, but his­tor­i­cally we draw the line at finan­cial power so con­cen­trated it can con­front the power of the President.”

“What makes this a really handy app is that all doc­u­ments cre­ated are copies of the orig­i­nal doc­u­ment you drag in the Doc­u­ment Palette app list. This allows you to essen­tially cre­ate a start­ing tem­plate for any type of document.”

“The only dif­fi­culty with this entire story was that it was not remotely true. There had been no sus­tained assault by the Chi­nese on the lega­tions, no break­through, no last stand, and no slaugh­ter. In fact, July 6^th had been quiet enough that Pri­vate R.G. Cooper, one of the British sol­diers holed up in the lega­tions, had not men­tioned it in his diary of the siege. The most press­ing news of those few days was the dis­cov­ery of a buried British can­non from 1860, which the defend­ers of the lega­tions refur­bished and put to use.”

“Rif­graf is a fire-​​and-​​forget web ser­vice for dis­play­ing graphs of data col­lected over time. Post your data points peri­od­i­cally via rest calls. Then view a graph of the data at any time in the future.”

“My reac­tion to them… What the fuck is wrong with you peo­ple? Why would you think that I would want to have any­thing to do with you? How do you have the chutz­pah to act as if we’re old friends? How dare you? I see the RSVP list that one of you sent me, and I lit­er­ally feel nau­seous just remem­ber­ing your names.”