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Re Linkedin, I keep getting requests for connections from competitors! Sure, I love you man, but screw off!!
I went through a 4 month song and dance with a particular company spring through summer re a new job, and bottom line it didn’t work out. But Ms. In Charge, now wants to connect with me on Linked in and get access to my 235 Trade relationships. Uh, NO.
Biff, I’m thinking there is some way that LinkedIn mines a person’s email contacts. And ferrets out that 2 people have a 3rd person in common who is in each of their email address books, even if the 3rd person is not necessarily on each (or either) of their LinkedIn pages; if these 2 people are LinkedIn, the site somehow “knows” to recommend the 3rd person as a possible link to one or both of the original people. That’s the closest I’ve been able to figure out to the experiences I’ve had with recommendations.
Like Russia, LinkedIn “is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”.
Implementation of Dodd-Frank in commodities is really going to be wierd.
It is a completely political, non reality-based set of principles, which are taking the speculator, hedge fund, investor class into the PHYSICAL markets for commodities, which is where the real potential for danger and market dislocation is, not the well-policed derivatives markets. We are gearing up for the Hunt Brothers II.
i.e. One player, until today undisclosed, owned between 50-80% of the world’s physical copper stocks deliverable on the London Metals Exchange. People were freaking about this – who is trying to corner this market?
Guess who?
JP Morgan Chase. Buying up physical to back an ETF. An investor product. !!??!! So when there is chaos in underlying real world physical commodities, we can thank our dumbass regulators for allowing cheap and stupid political fixes to trump reality. Of course, we could blame Chase but they are one of many who will be reacting to an attempt of our regulators to limit speculative activity!!!
Thanks DIBS, I just got whiplash spinning around to see her on one of the TV monitors here on the trading floor.
dona, do you have a saw of any kind? can you lift the window up so it closes all the way?
This Asian woman on CNBC right now has a mouth like a blow-up doll.
Yes, Biffy. I think it must be some 6 degrees of separation type thing.
“Has anybody else had the freaky experience with LinkedIn whereby they make eerie recommendations for connections?”
Yes. I’ve had people recommended to me, whom there is no possible way LinkedIn could know I know. For example, last week, I logged in from home, only to discover that my top recommendation is a friend of a friend with whom I’ve been networking, but he and I have only communicated through our work emails, so I have no clue how LinkedIn would “know” to recommend him to me. [Cue Twilight Zone Theme Music]
Is LinkedIn like silverdaddies sort of???