Archive for March, 2006

Stock Market

March 24th, 2006

Anyone who invests in the stock market and does well likes to think that he skillfully causes his own profit. Anyone who does worse than the market or loses money blames the news or some other external, random factor. People tend to console their ego, psychology has proven this. Psychologists call this [...]

Cell Phone for the Elderly

March 21st, 2006

Cell phones to seniors. The baby boomers’ parents have retired, and many more baby boomers will soon. The market for simple, cheap cell phones lacks any dominance. A company can plant intself into this fantastic business niche and thrive.
MSNBC reports on one Czech company producing larger, simpler cell phones for seniors. [...]

SCG

March 3rd, 2006

Princeton’s new Student Course Guide was released recently. I made that in some spare time, updating often to make it easier to use and more functional. It sports over 2000 courses and even more sections, with over 5000 potential users all interacting to help each other. I’m guessing that the new SCG [...]

Lehman Brothers

March 3rd, 2006

The Princeton Pre-Business Society took a trip to New York City to visit Lehman Brothers.
A number of employees set up a Market Trading Simulation, where we all ran around buying and selling oil contracts, S&P futures, and 10-Year T-bills. Some people acted as salespeople, who interacted with the “customers.” Lehman employees [...]

Ash Wednesday

March 2nd, 2006

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday. I saw many people walking around prominently displaying an ashen cross. Although I could not attend mass yesterday, I did fast the day for the first time. Fasting one day proves not to be incredibly difficult, while having the benefit of purifying the body. I will probably [...]