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The story of “The Great Recession”, as many are calling the current economic crash, is in the process of being told. There are so many angles and players that it is difficult to tell the story in one single work. Each article and book that comes out focuses on one aspect of the crisis (e.g. [...]
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Alan Turing, one of the most brilliant minds to have graced the earth, devised a test to determine whether or not a machine possessed intelligence. This test became known as the Turing Test. A pair of researchers have developed a similar test to determine whether humans can tell the difference between actual financial market returns [...]
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Noah asks a provocative question: What if businesses came with expiration dates? Nobody wins forever. It just doesn’t happen. What we see in reality are millions of corpses of businesses and ideas that have made their impact (or not) and then petered out into oblivion without leaving much more than a memory. Some of them [...]
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Really interesting article on page one of Friday’s Wall Street Journal: Investors are sometimes accused of treating the stock market like a casino. Now, one Wall Street firm wants to treat casinos like the stock market. Bond-trading specialist Cantor Fitzgerald in March took over the management of sports betting at the M Resort, a new [...]
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This video has been making the rounds recently. One doesn’t immediately think of rap and macroeconomic theory together, but the video does a really good job of boiling down the two dominant schools of thought and what their disagreements primarily revolve around. There are some really smart touches in the video (e.g. Hayek peering into [...]
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The Limits of Innovation: “And the last argument for the limits of innovation has to do with human nature. Why we choose to adopt things is not a logical process, and is fueled by culture, psychology, timing, and a dozen factors, many which have little to do with new idea X being better than old [...]
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Over lunch the other day, Noah mentioned this really interesting product that was announced at CES. It’s called Airnergy and it somehow harvests the energy emitted by nearby WiFi signals and converts it into electricity that can be used to power and recharge various devices. It reminded me of a concept I’ve been toying with [...]
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Joel Spolsky, an entrepreneur and columnist for Inc., wrote an interesting piece last month asking whether his strategy of slow, consistent growth was actually a recipe for failure: I have always believed that there is a natural, organic rate at which a business should grow, and that if we expanded too fast, the wheels would [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
