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• Podcast #176 — Volatility Is Optional

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 124
  I’ve posted Podcast #176 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called Volatility Is Optional. A rational market prices in the effect of an eventual economic recovery. Thus, economic bad times need not cause a drop in stock price. Price drops are caused solely by our negative emotional reaction to bad ...
  14 hours ago

• Rationality and Irrationality

  
  Gary Rumor's Anti-Entropic Continuum — Authority: 126
  I live on the edge of a rational universe. I admire rationality but I constantly find myself attracted to women who are irrational to an extreme. I fell in love with a woman. I took care of her, supported her, treated her like a princess, and the princess found a pea in the mattress. She rejected me and I am free ...
  20 hours ago

• The True Cause of the Current Financial Crisis Is Buy-and-Hold Investing

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 124
  I recently posted an article to the “Valuation-Informed Indexing” section of the site entitled  The True Cause of the Current Financial Crisis Is Buy-and-Hold Investing. Juicy Excerpt #1:  We feel a great short-term temptation to set prices insanely high. But we ultimately are governed by the long-term ...
  1 day ago

• Eulogy To The Rational Expectations Hypothesis

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 130
  Dr Madsen Pirie writes in the Adam Smith Institute Blog (10 November) HERE : a trenchant expose of the failings of the rational expectations hypothesis: “ One of the few good things to come out of the financial crisis is a re-examination of the fundamentals of Austrian Economics. One of them is that value ...
  1 day ago

• The Psychology of Hasan: The Ft. Hood Shooter

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 609
  I’ve held off in writing anything about the tragic Ft. Hood shooting, allowing some time for details to emerge and for emotions to settle. Random acts of violence always leave us all scratching our heads, but sometimes the violence seems so extreme, the act so irrational, one can’t help but turn and ask, “Why ...
  2 days ago

• Sales—Society for Rational Dress on Cutdrop.com, CB2 Discount with Non-Perishable Food Donation, Albert Maysles-Inspired Glasses at Barneys, Manicures, Martinis & Fertility Chat at Bellacures

  
  BLACKBURN AND SWEETZER — Authority: 510
  A piece from CB2 THROUGH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15 WHO: Society for Rational Dress on Cutdrop.com WHAT: Charity sample sale with benefits to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles , featuring select items at significant discount WHERE: Online THROUGH WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 WHO: CB2 WHAT: Bring in five ...
  2 days ago

• Style it

  
  TWENTYTHIRTYFORTY.net — Authority: 112
  As most of you know (or maybe don’t know) about us is that we are huge proponents of ‘wear what you love, lots of different ways’.  This past week was another week of making outifts  We fell in love with many things, but right now anything big and cozy gets our vote and as always, so does a great shoe. ...
  2 days ago

• (Not) Understanding Government

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 497
  1. To reiterate from yesterday, the (primary) reason that Rollin Stanley is so disconcerting is that he is painfully direct. 2. todays Post has a piece about how WMATA, the DC transit organization, is "stonewalling" safety checks by the advisory safety organization that seemingly provides oversight. See " Metro ...
  2 days ago

• Why Do People Vote? I

  
  The Scientific Fundamentalist — Authority: 466
  Why millions of people turn out to vote in every national election in the United States and other large democracies is one of the persistent mysteries in the rational choice theory of politics.  Why do people vote? If you think about it, voting in a large national election – such as the US Presidential election ...
  3 days ago

• Rational Ration for 2009-11-09

  
  Possibly Wrong, Probably Right — Authority: 103
  RT @ ffreethinkers How the Church is turning our Congressmen into cowards http://bit.ly/2UzETp #
  3 days ago

• So...intelligent people are more impatient?

  
  Documented, Scrapbook'd. — Authority: 149
  Shared by BenJack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is...
  3 days ago

• How do innovators think?

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 497
  Is a piece from the New York Times , featuring an interview by an editor of Harvard Business Review . From the article: Q: You conducted a six-year study surveying 3,000 creative executives and conducting an additional 500 individual interviews. During this study you found five "discovery skills" that ...
  3 days ago

• In the wake of Fort Hood: Prejudice is not the answer

  
  Death Love Sex Magic — Authority: 91
  The recent shooting of American soldiers (on American soil) by a Muslim American military psychiatrist at Fort Hood threatens to reignite tensions between Muslim American and non-Muslim American cultural groups. In the wake of the September 11th attacks, Muslim Americans as a group faced hard times in this country. ...
  4 days ago

• ‘Utopianism for the powerful’

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 129
  The Atlantic blogger Ta-Nahisi Coates reacts to cries of “bigotry” after the election results in Maine: Conservatives pride themselves on their skepticism, and generally dismiss liberals as soft-headed Utopians. But in so many ways, political conservatism is Utopianism for the powerful. It isn’t broadly ...
  4 days ago

• "Smart Money" Indeed

  
  Tim Oren's Due Diligence — Authority: 415
  This is both a gross privacy violation and a fascinating result. Seems some Finnish researchers managed to get their hands on that countrys records of IQ tests of its soldiers. They then joined that data with several public databases to correlate the intelligence tests with not only income, but stock market ...
  5 days ago

• Super Freakonomics – Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

  
  Simple Complexity — Authority: 563
  I’m about halfway through an excellent new book from Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance . The book is fantastic. From the Introduction: Many of life’s decisions are hard. . . . For one, the stakes are ...
  6 days ago

• IBM launches development and test cloud

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 463
  IBM is launching a development and test cloud service as a part of its Smart Business portfolio, as well as adding private cloud services to Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing portfolio.
  6 days ago

• Speaking as a Mother ..

  
  Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) — Authority: 637
  tags: humor , funny , rational thought , belief systems , bill bailey , streaming video Bill Bailey gives Rosie ODonnell (and mothers like her) some advice: "Nuke every country that hasnt sent us a Christmas card in the last 20 years." Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
  1 week ago

• When is acting irrational the rational thing to do?

  
  Welker's Wikinomics Blog — Authority: 122
  FT.com / Comment / Opinion – Magic and the myth of the rational market . Imagine you’re a poor farmer who has always had just enough to feed your family, with no surplus left over to sell. Then one day the government decides to grant your family and your neighbors enough land to grow your own food and plenty more ...
  1 week ago

• How To Understand And Conquer Anxiety Attack Symptoms

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Anxiety attack symptoms often leave a person believing that the worst is going to happen to them. If you are reading this, looking for answers about your specific condition, you need to take note that the way that you feel is not necessarily reality. This can be very hard to understand and it [...]
  1 week ago

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