China, Brazil, Credit Risk Management and the BIG crisis
In 2005, I was volunteering in Brazil. I couldn’t buy the Economist every week, so each issue I could find was read carefully for more than a week. The issue about China had the honour to stay in my backpack for three weeks, while I was travelling around the country with the highest interest rates […]
Social lending e credito alle piccole e medie imprese
(pubblicato su ventiquattro, magazine de Il Sole 24 Ore, dicembre 2006)
Trentamila euro per lanciare la sua piccola impresa. Emma Hackforth era sicura di avere le carte in regola: titoli di studio, esperienza di lavoro, una casa che potesse garantire il credito. Più di tutto, era sicura che la sua idea era valida e che […]
(Google) trends of Mathematics
The Financial Times published a nice comments about James Simons (available here for free). Sixty year old, Mr Simons is a mathematician who is “the most successful hedge fund manager ever.”
His hedge fund group (Renaissance Technology) has a name which already explaines the cultural origin of the “legions of brilliant people” who work there. Not […]
Landless Workers’ Movement: History did not end.
The documentary, about the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (Italian websites) was made in 2004. The final version was released in 2005 for the Filmar en Amèrica Latina in Geneva.
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