Mistakes
Another clever piece from Behaviour Gap
And They Say Trading Is A Hard Way To Make Dollar
I was having a Q&A yesterday with Caroline Stephen the boss of Talking Trading and many of the questions that folks had sent in for discussion revolved around how hard trading was. I agree there are some aspects that are hard but then it could be worse, you could be doing this for a living.…
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Vampire CEO’s
There is no rational basis for these phenomena “A major study by the economists Xavier Gabaix and Augustin Landier, who happen to believe that current compensation levels are economically efficient,” writes the New Yorker, “ found that if the company with the 250-most-talented CEO suddenly managed to hire the most talented CEO its value would increase…
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How to Go Broke In Style
I have to admit the amount of money some folks can go through in a very short period of time is quite amazing…. Over 60% of NBA players reportedly go broke within five years of retirement. Iverson, who retired from the NBA in 2010, fell right into that trap. In his heyday, Iverson had expensive…
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Outsmart Your Own Biases
……..It can be dangerous to rely too heavily on what experts call System 1 thinking—automatic judgments that stem from associations stored in memory—instead of logically working through the information that’s available. No doubt, System 1 is critical to survival. It’s what makes you swerve to avoid a car accident. But as the psychologist Daniel Kahneman…
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What Would You Pay To Be Happy?
The happiest man in the world is a 67-year-old Buddhist monk called Matthieu Ricard. He starts his day sitting in a meadow in front of his hermitage in Nepal. He watches hundreds of miles of Himalayan peaks glowing in front of him in the rising sun. The scene “blends naturally and seamlessly with the peace…
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The Decline Of Pseudoscience
Have we reached peak green juice? The New York Times’ Brooks Barnes suggests as much in a recent story about what a haute-hippie refuge in California is bringing to an already over-saturated market: With every mini-mall, gas station and gym in Los Angeles now boasting a juice bar, or so it seems, the truly cutting-edge folks need to raise…
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Tantrum Of The Week
I was going to drop this into the email of the week category but it seemed to be more of a sook of the week sort of thing. Unfortunately, this one wasn’t sent to me so I had to read it over LB’s shoulder but its contents are more than worthy pf repeating. Our erstwhile correspondent stated that…
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