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To: koan who wrote (60987)2/10/2010 12:22:42 PM
From: energyplay  Read Replies (2) of 217942
 
The hedge fund winners aren't making the money per hour, but as the payoff of investments/bets on market moves. This is also a list of the winners, sort of like the people who have hit records. The median hedge fund manager makes a lot less.

Climate and weather knowledge can be used for a number of agricultural and energy speculations.

Maybe your son in law should consider writing a book on weather, climate and the economy or writing a newsletter.
You don't need many subscribers at $150 a year to be eating more steak.

Both of those activities are in line with most academic values, and don't require living in New York or Greenwich.

It is well know that the way most Economics professors got rich (before consulting for hedge funds) was to write an economics textbook. (See Paul Samuelson)

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Makes me think about Randy Newman's "It's money that matters"

There are many PhD level academics, who once they decide that they want to start making money, who do very well either in related fields or in real estate or the stock market.
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