2016-03-19 18:53
A timely and frightening exploration of the causes and consequences of the emerging foreclosure mess.
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a collection of essays and articles on the science of everyday life.
2016-03-19 18:53
One could easily mistake this for a modern essay on the virtues of a balanced life and the perils of unbridled greed.
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2016-03-19 18:53
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
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2016-03-19 18:53
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it,
is committing another mistake.” ~ Confucius
Another quarterly earnings release has come and gone, and once a… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
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2014-07-22 02:50
This past weekend was a painful reminder that blood still runs think in humanity's borderlands.
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2012-01-10 03:14
The Blackberry-maker’s biggest failure is not learning from its failures.
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2010-09-07 15:51
Students of behavioral finance had a field day this past week.
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2010-08-12 00:55
At issue is an age old debate between two economic philosophies: stimulus as a life vest versus stimulus as a straitjacket.
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2010-08-09 01:46
Evidence continues to mount that established models of rational decision-making are dangerously out of date.
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2010-05-15 01:15
Stopping the spread of financial contagion is deceptively similar to plugging a ruptured deep-sea oil well.
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2010-05-05 15:06
Armies of bulls and bears are camped out on either side of the great debate over the future of the global economy.
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2010-04-23 03:22
Modern politicians, businesspeople and academics are once again questioning both the failures of free markets and the failures of government.
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2010-04-07 20:56
Greenspan casts a surprising shot across the bow of modern banking giants who have grown a little too comfortable with their bailout blanket and artificially low interest rates.
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2010-04-01 00:29
America is just as vulnerable to collapse as the many great civilizations that preceded it -- maybe even more so given the increasing complexity of our modern global economy.
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2010-03-26 00:38
A primer on the unique roles that banks and capital markets play in the efficient (and sometimes painfully inefficient) functioning of of modern society.
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