Archive for February, 2009

tom L friedman’s protectionism article

{ February 18, 2009 @ 2:23 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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clipped from www.nytimes.com

“If you do this, it will be one of the best things for India and one of the worst for Americans, [because] Indians will be forced to innovate at home,” said Subhash B. Dhar, a member of the executive council that runs Infosys, the well-known Indian technology company that sends Indian workers to the U.S. to support a wide range of firms. “We protected our jobs for many years and look where it got us. Do you know that for an Indian company, it is still easier to do business with a company in the U.S. than it is to do business today with another Indian state?”

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forex – data visualization

{ February 10, 2009 @ 4:10 am } · { forex }
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one of the interesting thing with the forex data is to find out which currency is stronger/weaker compared to other currencies.  There appears to be few tools to visually see this

FXMap from OANDA

Panopticon (fx demo)                   Actually Panopticon seem to have very interesting visualizations demo

inside viewer from easy-forex that visualizes their internal orders i think