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Schizofinance

…the optimal trading strategy doesn’t depend on the planning horizon. Indeed he did under the assumption that the objective is the log of end of horizon wealth *and* that financial…

Housing: Bubble Talk

…the conviction that the Internet and other technologies augured a golden age of unparalleled prosperity. Notes Shiller dryly: “Once stocks fell, real estate became the primary outlet for the speculative

BotCoin

…have negative social utility. They are pure speculative assets which enable people to gamble. Also bitcoin miners use as much electricity as Denmark. The problem is exactly the aspect which…

Paul Volcker Feb.20

…sponsoring hedge funds and equity funds and from engaging in a great volume of proprietary trading–those things that their management has loved to do in recent years. And it got…