My recollection of my past is quite hazy
I'm a democrat, but I'm not a card-carrying democrat
It's a high-flying company
But economists agree that the U.S. economy would bounce back like a yo-yo after health risks die down, buoyed by an uptick in spending once people leave their houses and open up their wallets.
If it spreads to SF, it could hamstring ginormous tech companies.
But if it doesn't...it won’t. So no one wants to say unequivocally what’s going to happen.
One economist said the outbreak could dock a full percentage point off 2020 growth.
Vaccines are just one example of the way cost-prohibitive health care may make it harder for the US to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
marking the worst intraday point decline in the history of the Dow
With this massive run up everyday, everybody was texting me, oh I'm so good at investment
wet market
Now the Trump administration is facing bipartisan backlash for downplaying the threat of the virus.
Iger reinvigorated the entertainment powerhouse by buying Pixar, Marvel, the Star Wars franchise and 21st Century Fox, and recently launched its own streaming platform.
Nearly six decades after the Civil Rights Act, black workers still have to hustle to get ahead.
Locusts overran the prairie.
Locusts ate the country bare.
on-ramp
I have always found supplementary views a lit unwieldy
Having a socialist at the top of the party with his background, will taint the entire Democratic party
They called us in as experts
punctuality isn't one of my strength
press gallery
prep work
Dan describes that meeting as an analogy for what it was like for us in the 1990s in general: We had to barge our way into things.
risk parity investment
To remain a beautiful boutique or become a great institution?
Nature preserve on the banks of the Saugatuck River
fleshing out principles
forming principles about how to deal with them
if nothing else, I could better appreciate people I'd once wanted to strangle!
which is like a foreman not understanding how his equipment will behave.
psychometric testing as a way of learning how people think differently
her assessment proved spot-on and provided a great road map for how they would develop over the years.
MBTI: Myers–Briggs Type Indicator
highly relevant to the conflicts and disagreements
most of the psychologists I met were surprisingly squeamish about exploring differences.
I had most of Bridgewater's managers take the Myers-Briggs assessment. The results astounded me.
cognitive bias
That was "light bulb" went off my head
This isn’t the first time that the Trump campaign purchased the coveted masthead ads ahead of important election events
ad-libs songs
humiliate, humility
Based on the Chinese government’s notoriety, local officials may claim them as dead from the virus
Abu Dhabi
Who transformed mosquito-infested backwater to a model economy
juggling work and family has been as much a challenge to me as to anyone else
silk scarves
put up for sell
we also had an annual "Sleaze Day" when everybody would dress up sleazy
The barn in Wilton, CT
one of the most critical builders and pillars of Bridgewater
strip mall
I never valued more traditional, antiseptic relationships where people put on a facade of politeness and don't say what they really think.
The media dubbed us as among the "Heroes of October."
We're at odds as to how to proceed with a witness.
All great investors and investment approaches have bad patches
the friends who would be with me through thick and thin
The next foothold for Bridgewater
we worked nonstop through the weekend
that was a game changer
Discovering the "Holy grail" of investing
Annual portfolio standard deviation
This was another key moment in our education
uncorrelated return stream
the investment management concepts that underlie Pure Alpha
the journey from conception to general acceptance took many years of learning and grinding work by a group of dedicated partners
Before long, things came to a boil
My "Intractable" people problem
company morale
leave a lasting impression
If he doesn't mange people well, growth will be stunted and we will all be affected
I wasn't paying them enough money to put up with my crap
Have agreed-upon ways of deciding
move beyond without resentments
He also became like a godson to me
inflation-indexed bond
matte finish
satin color
close loop
sycophant
ups and downs
so having an opportunity to go behind what was still a mostly "closed door" was alluring
Beijing was filled with wonderful and incredibly hospitable people
unsettle time
arm of the law, regulatory arm
I could provide know-how by introducing Chinese companies to American ones
indebtedness
gilded age
deal maker
supposedly pocketed a couple hundred millions U.S. dollars on this deal
the Robber Baron Era
Nonetheless, the astute will profit enormously from what I truly believe will be the biggest investment opportunity ever
I had sorely underestimated the complexity of the task we had set for ourselves
Let's give her a round of applause
deep sleep is your nocturnal dip in heart rate
questionnaire
glow stick
To make ends meet, I even had to borrow $4000 from my dad until we could sell our second car.
Finding a way past my intractable investment problem
Then you press on
I couldn't muster enough money to pay for an airplane ticket to Texas
the future could be perfectly foretold
He who lives by the crystal ball is destined to eat ground glass
react appropriately
Doing this helped me educate me and led me to refine my criteria so they were timeless and universal
It could do a better job of compounding my knowledge
hawking a $3000 per month research package with my daily telexes
derivative instruments
risk-neutral
eye-opening for most of the firms we worked with
A self-made man
I watched the tragedy unfold from up close
before long, the Australian dollar plunged to new lows.
There wasn't much they could do without locking in ruinous losses, so they again did nothing
And this time the Australian dollar didn't rally.
Seeing one of the riches and most accomplished men on the planet lose everything made a huge impression on me.
I made a commitment I would not talk about my predecessor or my successor.
This isn't just being altruistic
stop and frisk, Terry stop
He has a reputation shall we say, not being scrupulous in how he counts strokes
A Treasury bill, or T-bill, is a bit like an IOU from a friend who’s short on cash for lunch...
Buying gold is not for the faint of heart
cause-effect
pooh-pooh
default
nifty 50
nothing was nearly as clear in real time
I was in way over my head, though I was too arrogant to realize it at the time
downward spiral
honky-tonk
We moved into a rented brownstone in Manhattan
icing on the cake
These early models were a far cry from the ones we use now
I vividly remember one ...
The most painful lesson that was repeatedly hammered home is that you can never be sure of anything.
reverberate throughout this book
Being on a mission I become engrossed in
It's senseless to have making money as your goal as money has no intrinsic value
Making money was an incidental consequence of that
shooting from hip
it would be irrevocable.
life & work principles interwoven
This is "seat of the pants" trading, based on research and executed on instinct.
The markets were more volatile
it was the one of the most pivotal times in the last hundred years
Liberal had ceased to mean being in favor of progress and had come to mean "paying people not to work."
inflation-hedged assets
My kooky views were starting to look right on
The greatest whipsaw ever
I was all the way back to square one
bore hole
Most drivers are pretty courteous as they will give extra space
there is a lot inattentive crazy drivers on the road
Arctic Ocean, Antarctica
unrelenting
Just postulate about designs without getting their hands dirty
Why Use 2 Pieces Of Cutlery, When You Only Need One
Japan's dull election is a sign of ailing politics
docile docile & diffidence - diffidence
Stop fantasizing Japanese girls
unmistakable bias
My dad's latest bimbo hit on me
there is a mastodon exhibit on loan from Bangkok
The corridor opens into Mr. Brown's office
Jeepers! Do you think she saw?
Rigatoni is a form of tube-shaped pasta
phon: sound unit
Henceforth I expect you to be punctual for meeting.
Its diminutive nature
it's gonna be a little anemic for daily street duty
excellent track day bike because of their indestructible nature
We can't exalt Suzuki too much now
another unimaginably wealthy man
It also received a $129 million tax rebate from the federal government
Amazon’s low tax bill mainly stemmed from the Republican tax cuts of 2017, carryforward losses from years when the company was not profitable, tax credits for massive investments in R&D and stock-based employee compensation
This issue came front and center on a local and state level in New York during the saga of Amazon’s HQ2 hunt – with a groundswell of local opposition scuttling the deal
pilot program
I'd say I was a late bloomer
evacuee
As a side benefit, we will also see massively lower administrative costs
It has to be said, though, that in some modern languages the situation starts to get murkier
Even so, for some people,"functions" are their Waterloo in the field of programming
Mathematical Induction
The deliberate, indiscriminate theft of vast amounts of sensitive personal data of civilians, as occurred here, cannot be countenanced.
Hall said much of the federal government’s efforts have been on raising awareness and on “low-hanging fruit,” like enabling two-factor authentication
These people has no business complaining about breaches of decorum.
additional units are en route to apprehend the man and remove him from the bus
These news are circulating in the internet
repercussion, pushback, backlash
stem the outbreak
It's labor intense
the fact that there is only one lexicon of views in the West about China, resulting in the lack of knowledge on "how China sees itself and the world
Putting our large market and financial muscle behind one or both of these firms would make it a more formidable competitor
Huawei, which the U.S. views as a Trojan Horse for Chinese spies, sells just under one-third of the world’s telecom equipment.
The U.S. controlling Nokia or Ericsson would loosen Huawei's stranglehold on the market, but the plan is highly unusual
Not only are sales getting whacked in China, the world’s largest auto market, but their supply chains are being thrown into chaos as Chinese factories remain shut down
whacked out, out of whack
Tourism: “Hotels and travel agencies catering to Chinese have seen what one employee in Rome called a 'bloodbath' of cancellations
it’s too early to tell whether that’s a trend or a blip.
He touched one’s crotch ahead of the 2018 Victoria’s Secret fashion show.
One model, Andi Muise, said Victoria’s Secret had stopped hiring her for its fashion shows after she rebuffed Mr. Razek’s advances.
coffee-table book
On multiple occasions, Mr. Wexner himself was heard demeaning women.
This abuse was just laughed off and accepted as normal.
You're such a lurker
Avoid touching that vermin that sits on all our desks, the mouse
without further ado please welcome XXX
The President’s vindictiveness is precisely what led Republican Senators to be accomplices to his cover-up
newlywed
The Wuhan government was secretive and self-serving
I don't know how sick they were where they contracted it
Don’t just use your credit card willy-nilly.
After her boss fell sick, she willy-nilly found herself directing the project
beat me to it
torso injury
porous border
Conclusions Dragons blood powder has broad-spectrum sterilization
With this ab roller, you can ensure perfect form while whittling away that tummy butter
retirement nest egg
you'll think the stock market is just going gangbusters
the solution isn't to just stick your head in the ground
You credit card obligation have shot up to a approaching 20% per year
economic storm
be belligerent at work
soul train
I've also made an ironclad pledge to American families we will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions
That lie is so extreme that if Trump is Pinocchio he would have impaled Mitch McConnell in his seat
Iowa democratic caucuses
Each change is coherent in the mind of its maker
Soon the once-elegant design has turned into a patchwork-quilt of changes. Requirements shift, parts get repurposed. Connections proliferate
Software development is a constantly shifting field, and many languages live and die within a few years
When I am interested in learning about a new codebase, I skim its git log until I find a tantalizing tag or commit message, like say "version 1". Invariably version 1 is far simpler than the current version
The core use cases haven't yet been swamped by an avalanche of features and exceptions
I also notice that your idea has some commonality with the boxer paper
repl: Read–eval–print loop
aftereffect
anabolic steroids ??
denominator
no backstop
back burner
The contrast is thought provoking.
Taiwanese stranded in Wuhan to be evacuated
hormone, adrenaline
simple enough that you'll actually do it, but meaningful enough that it will actually make a difference
Scientists have long known that restricting calories is a way of lengthening life
Is your suit mildewing? - Yes, it's
Rigatoni is a form of tube-shaped pasta
I hate to see posers showing off
I was bored stiff with my project
They bore the coffin into the church
He was yoked to an unwilling partner
Damn, they must have snuck out again
I always figured I'd be a spinster who lived with Carrie
Oh, you must be pretty darn happy
You pinheads screwed it up!