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Link to play Dan Ariely talk at TED click here Read more at Dan Ariely's blog Are we going to forget what we just learned? 28th April 2009, 08:52 am Paul Krugman published an op-ed yesterday about exec salaries . The very sad conclusion he comes to is that because the financial markets seem to be on an improving trajectory (although it is hard to know if this reflects a real improvements in the economy yet) the push to reform the banks could die off. As Krugman puts it: “In 2008, overpaid bankers taking big risks with other people’s money brought the world economy to its knees. The last thing we need is to give them a chance to do it all over again.” We are now in a unique point in time where we just realized the mess we got ourselves into by assuming that the markets will be perfectly rational — and I sure hope we are not going to forget this painful lesson just because the market seem to be slightly higher these days. In...

First Review -  wolframalpha Very good Website for analysis of data. Check out the examples page to review some query results About the company -  Goals Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries Review about wolfarmalpha  NYtime.com - The Veil Is Lifted From Wolfram Alpha CNN.com -  New search engines aspire to supplement Google Telegraph.co.uk - Wolfram Alpha v Google: Which is better? Youtube Demo -   Harvardbusiness blog  -  Wolfram Alpha vs. Google = Power vs. Simplicity? Some have said his new project may rival Google because it goes ...

Stress Test = The Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) Release Date: May 7, 2009  For release at 5:00 p.m. EDT The results of a comprehensive, forward-looking assessment of the financial conditions of the nation's 19 largest bank holding companies (BHCs) by the federal bank supervisory agencies were released on Thursday... Read more Overview of Results