How Wall Street Works
I have to admit I can understand how this become the popular perception.
Predicting The Next Crash
As a personal dlsclaimer I should point out that Sornett has been making predictions of crashes for over a decade and I dont believe he has gotten one correct. His last prediction of note was that the S&P500 would crash to 700 points in 2004, if memory serves me correctly that didnt happen. In their…
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Every now and again we get an interesting email at blog central. Todays intrepid contributor writes – I have noticed that a daily and weekly ATR are different. Why is this, I find it confusing….
DetailsKodak’s Problem Child
I have written about Kodak before and its failure to adapt to the disruption caused by its own invention and this piece by Kenny Suleimanagich is a neat little synopsis of how it all went wrong. See also Adapt by Tim Harford.
DetailsMark Blyth: Austerity – The History of a Dangerous Idea
I always find it remarkable that so much public policy is generated with at best a modicum of half arsed evidence or at worst no evidence at all. To me austerity seems to fall into the latter camp of no evidence at all. There seems to be very little evidence for the majority of economic…
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The rest of the series can be found here The Ricky Gervais episode from Season One is my favourite.
Its Friday
And time for a musical interlude….. Rodrigo Y Gabriela plays Pink Floyd’s – Wish you were here at Glastonbury 2007 Brilliant cover version of Voodoo Chilli by a Korean musician who is not that retard Psy (aka 2013’s Macarena) If you are not old enough to remember either of these two then I pity you…..
DetailsPaul Tudor Jones Makes A Dick of Himself
Why am I reminded of the expression that you cannot take the South out of the Southerner. As always seems to be the case the evidence doest fit with the anecdote. See here and here There is a lot more going on than women simply not being able to do it because they have babies.
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