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- Behavioral Finance: Happy Days Are Here Again
Behavioral finance begins with the setting of a question. For the individual investor, the question might be put, “what is going on in the market that is out of synch with fundamentals of reality?”
For the market maker, wishing to influence market participants, the same question may be addressed— though acted upon to different ends. For [...]
- Fixing the Financial System: The Bank of England’s Systemic View of Organizational Behavior
Andrew G. Haldane , Executive Director for Financial Stability of the Bank of England, delivered a remarkable paper at the April 2009 meeting of the Financial Student Association, in Amsterdam. Entitled, “Rethinking the Financial Network”, its deserved acclaim in the world press concerns its reliance on the study of complexity in natural systems: from epidemiology [...]
- Stunned By the Dow
Watching the market drop precipitously, again, I wonder at my friends’ silence. Exhaustion? Too much time since the last drop, too much hope spent (“my broker is a genius….see here, we’re up again!”) one time too many. Stunned? Incapable of considering the implications: too too too too to wrap the mind around. As I write, [...]
