Comments on: Financial Markets and the Singularity http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/2007/financial-markets-and-the-singularity/ Perspectives on Emerging Technologies Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:34:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jay @marketfolly http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/2007/financial-markets-and-the-singularity/#comment-33253 Jay @marketfolly Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:35:12 +0000 http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/?p=224#comment-33253 Hey thanks for posting this up, enjoyed it. I just wrote this on another blog entry so thought I'd copy over my comment here as well. We track hedge funds on our blog and have covered Thiel's fund (Clarium) numerous times. What's interesting to note is that while he might have great ideas and be quite philosophical, these are not (at least not yet) realistic trading or investing strategies as evidenced by his fund's poor performance numbers. There is a big difference between an idea and its execution. While he is still up handsomely since inception, the past 2 years for his fund have been far from impressive and just thought I'd note that. I enjoy Peter and his thoughts, don't get me wrong, but just thought I'd toss that into the mix as well. @marketfolly Hey thanks for posting this up, enjoyed it. I just wrote this on another blog entry so thought I’d copy over my comment here as well. We track hedge funds on our blog and have covered Thiel’s fund (Clarium) numerous times. What’s interesting to note is that while he might have great ideas and be quite philosophical, these are not (at least not yet) realistic trading or investing strategies as evidenced by his fund’s poor performance numbers. There is a big difference between an idea and its execution.

While he is still up handsomely since inception, the past 2 years for his fund have been far from impressive and just thought I’d note that. I enjoy Peter and his thoughts, don’t get me wrong, but just thought I’d toss that into the mix as well.

@marketfolly

]]> By: Is the Economy in a Moment of Peak Clarity? | Leveraging Ideas http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/2007/financial-markets-and-the-singularity/#comment-11962 Is the Economy in a Moment of Peak Clarity? | Leveraging Ideas Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:43:58 +0000 http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/?p=224#comment-11962 [...] readers of this blog know that I think Peter Thiel is a genius. Peter’s talk at last year’s Singularity Summit [watch it here] is a classic and I was psyched to see Ben Casnocha quote him back in [...] [...] readers of this blog know that I think Peter Thiel is a genius. Peter’s talk at last year’s Singularity Summit [watch it here] is a classic and I was psyched to see Ben Casnocha quote him back in [...]

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