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Bye Bye Bernanke? Who Would Be Next?
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We all have them. The friends that think everything is going to be okay, just because they went to a top 50 business school and have have a GPA above a 3.5. They will say things like "Employers aren't going to expect me to have relevant work experience. I have't even graduated...
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I know - I hate the term as much as you do, but it's real and it's damn near impossible to explain: the phenomenon investors call "edge." In its most basic form, edge is the ability of an analyst to identify, at first glance, what the key issues and concerns are in evaluating a...
Do You Have Edge? (Part One)
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Which impact on markets do newspapers have (excluding Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.)?
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Meeting NYC interns in FiDi?
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Leaving out Manhattan, which of the boroughs in the next best to live in? Manhattan isn't an option for the next year, but I need to live in one of the other boroughs for job reasons. Cost is a factor, but it is not the only one, so try to give as much of an "overall" (not just...
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