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The contrarian addiction

…stress instead of throwing anti-hypertensive medications at people? Can we discuss school lunch programs; not just bariatric surgery and Ozempic?” Alone among Trump’s health care appointees, Makary has escaped criticism…

Finance and belief in how markets work

…risk of creating more). First, there’s a big difference between quantitative trading and quantitative risk. And there may be a bunch of other categories that also exist, but I’ve only…

Transparency Liquidity

…to efficient pricing. High trading volume is what he means by “liquidity” and, here, “transparency.” Trading volumes have changed enormously. High trading volume always comes with high price volatility. Price…

Cap and Trade and Horse Trading

Robert Waldmann Has a thought about how to get votes for a cap and trade bill in the Senate without giving a windfall to incumbent polluters. The problem is that…

Congressional stock trading

I haven’t paid a lot of attention to the controversy surrounding Congressional stock trading, but 1) I assume it’s a real problem and 2) it’s obviously going to be very…