http://www.thefinancemonk.com Personal Finance, Industry Analysis, and Economic Musings from the Monastery Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:27:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A lot of people don't realize the amount of knowledge that there is available on publicly traded companies. When they say 'public', they really mean 'public'. Public companies - the kind that trade on stock exchanges and you can find in your 401k plans - are required to file a ... http://www.thefinancemonk.com/archives/8 Last year I had a book about hedge funds thrown in the back seat of my car during a long car trip, and a friend of mine (named Fish) was bored enough to read a good portion of it. He's a physics PhD student so he tends to understand everything. ... http://www.thefinancemonk.com/archives/5 Will over at Clicked had an interesting link: 50% of all BitTorrent Downloads are TV shows. And not only that, streaming television shows (where you don't have to download anything) seem to be replacing BitTorrent, with many of the major networks actually streaming their own content free of charge. ... http://www.thefinancemonk.com/archives/4 Welcome to the Monastery! Over the past couple of months I’ve begun actively following a good number of blogs, and I feel I am starting to understand what all the geek-pundits have been talking about so positively. There are a lot of talented people contributing to a great online ... http://www.thefinancemonk.com/archives/3