Nice offer from real time streaming database company KX to download their personal developer 32 bit version of Kdb+ … KX has done an astounding job of aggregating and distributing resources through the web to a global community of users… from their site…
~~~~ “Code.kx.com is an evolving collection of community resources for kdb+ users. It contains an online kdb+ reference, cookbooks, user-contributed code, and tutorials. Designed to encourage community participation, code.kx.com was built using open source project collaboration tools: Trac, an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects, and Subversion, a version control system.
Trac is implemented with a web interface, enabling all members of the Kx user community to add content, make changes, and open tickets from any web browser.”~~~~
In 1939 President Franklin Roosevelt, his family, government officials and the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark and Iceland gathered at my local post office, in Rhinebeck, New York to dedicate the structure which had been built as part of the WPA. President Roosevelt had personally overseen the design of the building as he had overseen all the WPA sponsored buildings in the county.
This event is richly memorialized in the post office and I usually take a few minutes to look at the photos and artifacts there… it brings history so much closer… but more importantly it always reminds me that history is made by men … it’s not some abstract events recorded in the history books… I’m sure this was a pleasant endeavor for President Roosevelt and gave him some relief from the work of drawing the nation out of the Great Depression. He loved Dutch Colonial history and architecture…
I was invited to participate in the second SEC call for bloggers today following the Open Hearing for the Commission to determine whether to adopt a schedule for the use of XBRL filings for public reporting companies.
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‘I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop,’ he said in an interview on Captiva in 2000. ‘At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore.’
Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008 New York Times obituary…
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Item 1: Interactive Data to Improve Financial Reporting
The Commission will consider whether to propose amendments to provide for corporate financial statement information to be filed with the Commission in interactive data format, and a near- and long-term schedule therefor…… Weds. 10:00am …
The New York Times Dealbook writes today about Citadel founder Ken Griffin and his views on Wall Street… here are some of his proposed solutions… sounds good…
~~~~ ” First, “the investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve,” he says.
But that’s not all. He also wants new government oversight of the arcane world of credit default swaps, a business with a notional value and risk of $50 trillion. “Everyone is missing the elephant in the room,” he said.” ~~~~
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I suffer what many thought workers suffer… surfing at work… my brain goes to mush on Friday afternoons … but I linked through to this story of baby hawks at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in upper Manhattan… very cool… I used to go monthly to the Cathedral when I served on the Council of the Diocese of New York… it’s an interesting urban oasis …
I’m looking back into the legislative process via Thomas.gov … on the floor of the House during the final passage of the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act (I was at the hearing in Philadelphia referred to by Mr. Oxley…) … I love this…
~~~~”Mr. OXLEY. Mr. Speaker, in closing, I want to pay special tribute to our friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fitzpatrick). It is rare in this House that a freshman has been able to pass major legislation as we have before us today, and it is a real tribute to his leadership and hard work and the cooperation on both sides of the aisle that we were able to get this bipartisan and bicameral bill finished.
We had a most impressive and informative field hearing in the City of Brotherly Love last November, and it really did set the template and the opportunity for the committee to move forward with this legislation.
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About one third of outstanding auction rate securities have been refunded or converted according to an article in the Bond Buyer today…
It took many years for this market to become as concentrated and illiquid as it is … so it’s no surprise that it will take at least a year to be unwound …
Liquidity availability for high net worth and retail investors will become a bigger issue … and an important issue…
Little chart from November 29, 2007 … big gap in one month Libor rates … 40 bips … maybe it’s jumps like this that lead interdealer broker ICAP to work on developing a system called the New York Funding Rate, which would poll some 40 banks to establish a daily funding barometer.
And WSJ.com is reporting that part of NYSE Euronext, “Liffe, is considering the launch of new short-term contracts that would allow investors to bet on the direction of interest rates. ”
An exchange traded solution available to all market participants and an OTC solution for dealers… both must attract liquidity to get off the ground… good race to watch…
Great post in Netbanker about the Tango tax filing service at H&R Block… the product offering gives users a very concise menu of ways to file their taxes … pay more >>> get more support ….
We see this in retail fixed income transactions some … at Schwab for example … good business practice to expand further for FI…
