FORTUNE Magazine, March 7, 1994:
Like alligators in a swamp, financial derivatives lurk in the global economy. Deriving their value from the worth of some underlying asset, like currencies or equities, these potentially lucrative contracts are measured in trillions of dollars. But they also lie in convoluted layers in a tightly wound market of global interconnections. [...]
Posted April 2, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: 1994, Byron Dorgan, derivatives, financial crisis, Fortune Magazine, predictions, warnings, Washington Monthly. Be the first one.
Way back in 2002 Dave Winer made a bet:
In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site.
It’s important to remember that in 2002 people still wrote “weblogs” in quotes, as though they weren’t sure how to [...]
Posted January 6, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: bet, bets, blogs, longnow, new york times, prediction, predictions. Be the first one.
