Financial Markets (Yale): Week 1

err 'compsci' rip Steve Jobs your ghost will live forever in our ilx typos

compsci is being taught by Malan... I don't think I know him

man has that class changed since I took it (it was all Pascal, for one thing!)

/one good thing about watching these is that you realize that ivy league college courses are pretty much exactly the same as city college courses

― iatee/

at the end of the day, how good can sitting and listening to someone talk about finance for an hour be, no matter how good their credentials?
--funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja)

i dunno i like econ so 'pretty good'?

(it was all Pascal, for one thing!)

― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, October 6, 2011 2:17 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

ha!

somewhere in my dad's photo albums is a picture of me at age 8 on a old ass Texas Instruments computer in my grandpa's basement with a pascal book and a BASIC book

ok good, sure, but how about "educational"?

i have a feeling that the learning in classes like this happens in the problem sets.

right i mean

are people not doing those?

i'm doing them

nah IMO the problem sets are just testing your applied math skills, don't (always) need the math to understand 'the big picture', tho you do need to be able to follow a graph

hoos can you link them? I couldnt even find em last night.

i don't think my math skills are strong enough to do them :(

lecture 2 problem set

http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/financial-markets/content/sessions/lecture02.html/

that problem set is not working

I forgot to bring my ipod to work again. :( Can't do the sessions at home b/c home computer currently non-fxn-al.

that problem set is not working

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, October 6, 2011 3:52 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

weird, yeah i see that--i got them yesterday

i'll scan what i've got and post

i am home sick today and would love to do some math problems, it beats grading

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B14F8TksSbscZTYxNGUwOWMtMDk5MC00NDBjLTk5ODAtZjhjNWI0NTk3YzJi&hl=en

the pdf is upside down lol sorry

u can ctrl+s to dl the pdf or ctrl+p to print f yall i

5. Suppose that as a Yale graduate you can expect to earn $150,000 per year on average from your job after taxes starting next year, and extending until you retire in 50 years.

srs

I should bring this p-set to occupy wall street

hahaha

i see that problem #3 is 10th grade level

i see that problem #3 is 10th grade level

posting to ilx, otoh

so is #4

if you know zero factorial is equal to 1 , so are #1 and #2

hope you have a scientific calculator handy

get ready to PLUG and CHUG

he is a little too impressed w/ himself

I'm getting more 'aloof'

I'm 3/4 way through the first lecture.

How far back am I?

not far, lecture 3 is for next Monday

Okay I loaded up the ipod with first 4 in case I forget again next week! Will have a very educational weekend.

each one (so far) is better than the last. i found the first one a big chore.

will we really need one thread per week? or is it better to keep it all in one.

#1 was pretty familiar stuff to me. I did Econ O-level back in 1977, on the face of it not much is different, just the way it's done is 'nothing like it now'...

So, shall indeed continue.

anyone watch lecture 3 yet? "why do people hate finance workers? idgi" seems sorta quaint in 2011. also in 2008 tho.

that bit in the first lecture where he talks about the questionable morality of being a financial markets profiteer was interesting in how ambivalent he was--"you'll have to sort of...decide for yourself."

I mean, realistically, like 75% of the the people in that classs want to go into finance

so I mean maybe OWS signs woulda been kinda dickish

but the extent that he defends the financial industry in lecture 3 is kinda amazing, curious how he's giving this lecture today, ya know?

nah def

OKAY have ipod, have headphones, am listening to lect 1 and will catch up.

lecture 2 will be kinda confusing w/o the chalkboard

but it will be kinda confusing w/ the chalkboard, I'd just zone out for those parts unless you want to go over the math

Oh I have video too, just not much going on r now.

Done lecture 2.

Onto three?

Okay I'm on the last leg of Lesson 3 and...I don't like this class. It's boring and SLOW and then when it's not SLOW, it's about MATH. Fucking A, this guy is the WORST speaker, I put the lecture on headphones for my entire commute and I feel like I only learned...2 or 3 things?? Over AN HOUR. We could have done moral hazard and risk management in 12 minutes.

I don't begrudge the time, exactly, but I am very very bored.

I dunno, if this is as complex as it gets, I'm so getting a degree at some point.

ilx downtime ruined the schedule of these things. what are people on? I'm on week 4. for both classes.

I just finished finance lecture 3 and started 4 and then turned it off. I know we were supposed to discuss things and have questions but by the time I get home at night and to a computer, the lecture was 10 hours ago.

Well, I got to the end of 3 lectures and own 2 books, dammit.

I'm willing to keep it up if there is interest

I mostly got sidetracked from going to OWS every night

so anyone else want to keep this one up?

I'm on week 5

after j17 i might be back in

I'm on week 5 now!

OK, slow. But I got a new phone with better sound and screen.

I highly recommend listening to the one with guest-lecturer Carl Icahn just so you can hear him talking about how the execs of most companies are idiot frat boys who didn't rock the boat.

Think that's 7. Soon come.

i'm doing the yale one now.

standford also doing something similar this semester http://venturelab.stanford.edu/finance. sounds like fewer lectures but more substantial problems.

I worked through loads of these, but managed to lose most of the lectures I downloaded.