The management of money in which an individual or a business decides how the money will be used to generate more revenue or profit.
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Is Kiva a scam?
Or, at least, has a questionable business model?
Kiva is a website/organization that allows private persons to give micro-loans out to (very) small businesses in developing countries.
Their idea seems rather nice to me, however there is quite a…
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Does "Micro Finance" reduce poverty?
Organizations like Kiva (also discussed in a mostly unrelated question) offer small loans to low-income people in under-developed countries. From their web site:
Microfinance is also the idea that low-income individuals are capable of lifting…
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Is mathematical modelling of investment markets a "science"?
A relative of mine works for a big bank (of bailout fame) in the investment division. We had a discussion where he claimed that what he does is actually a science. Me being an engineer called baloney on this. IMHO there is no science that can…
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Was the GameStop short squeeze caused by small individual investors?
I've seen a fair number of articles recently (example) describe the GameStop short squeeze as a victory for the little guy over Wall Street. They claim that it was a bunch of small individual investors on Reddit's wallstreetbets forum who kept…
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Is Warren Buffett the "only ... man in history [who] has invested billions of dollars of other people’s money successfully over the long run"?
In "$1 billion stakes on the menu", The Economist (2016-05-21 print edition) writes:
only one man in history has invested billions of dollars of other people’s money successfully over the long run: Warren Buffett.
Is this claim plausible?
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