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• Internet news as a market for news lemons

  
  Online Journalism Blog — Authority: 562
  This article frames the problem of news dissemination as a problem of market lemons, analogous to the issue raised by George Akerlof in 1970. Framing news as a mechanism of vetting common knowledge as opposed to entertainment allows one to see that instant common knowledge in the byzantine and uncertain way in which ...
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• Comment Highlight: Jake, Art DeVany, & Cartography

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 115
  Better maps do exist . Art DeVanys upcoming book will be one such epistemocratic map (and I look forward to reading and reviewing it). I want to thank Jake for chiming in to my previous post and spurring this installment of Comment Highlight : Jake said ... You should include Art DeVaney in your maps. ...
  4 days ago

• In the Currency Markets, Don’t be Fooled By Randomness

  
  HS Dent — Authority: 426
  “The dollar traded near a three-month high against the euro on signs the global economic recovery is gaining traction,” we read on Bloomberg this morning.  Excuse us?  Let’s make sure we understand  this correctly; the world economy is improving, and so the dollar rose? See, that’s odd because for the ...
  5 days ago

• Zurich Minds Symposium

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 525
  Last night, we went to a symposium called "Zurich Minds." You can find out more about it at http://Zurichminds.com . Our friend, Rolf Dobelli brings together people from all over the world to talk about what is on their minds. Last year, we went to hear another friend, Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan . This ...
  1 week ago

• Live the deal, UNWTO executive says

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 560
  eTN: How are you, Geoffrey? How is Copenhagen? Geoffrey Lipman: I think it’s probably better than people are saying, if you know what I mean. read more
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• The Economy is Like a Complex Ecosystem

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 525
  Most people in finance operate under a giant self-deception: they think future economic trends are much more knowable than they actually are. The economy is like a complex ecosystem. You cannot alter one piece of it without causing effects elsewhere in the system. Investors who understand this reality can also ...
  1 week ago

• 7 lifechanging books about fractals, chaos, nature, philosophy and even finance for the holidays

  
  Harry Seldon's blog : — Authority: 103
  Mandelbulb by Daniel White As we are still at the beginning of the holiday season, maybe you haven’t bought all your gifts yet. In that case, here are a few lifechanging books you can offer to your loved ones. By lifechanging, I mean you will never look at the world in the same way after reading one of these ...
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• Tiger Woods: Nassim Talebs Thanksgiving Black Swan Turkey on Black Friday

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 115
  ( Above: The Anatomy of a Blow Up from Nassim Talebs excellent essay, " The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of Statistics ," on Edge ) It was a negative Black Swan strike on a bizarre Black Friday night. It was an event we didnt expect. It blindsided us, in fact. The hidden risks were ...
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• The Effect is Not What’s Intended

  
  The Committee of Public Safety — Authority: 122
  Paul K. Van Riper In Adam Elkus’s excellent article Operational Art and Modern American Strategy , he referenced this article by retired U.S. Marine lieutenant general Paul K. Van Riper entitled EBO: There Was No Baby in the Bathwater . Van Riper, the hero of the Millennium Challenge wargame in 2002, is ...
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• Roubini Blasts "The Barbarous Relic," Recommends Spam Over Gold

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  In a headline piece on roubini.com , Nouriel Roubini writes an extended article slamming both gold bugs, and the so-called gold bubble, which he believes is far too volatile, and which, contrary to ever increasing claims to the opposite, will likely not get to the mythical price of $2000/ounce, and instead will head ...
  2 weeks ago

• Go for those nickels!

  
  Hedge Hub — Authority: 130
  The hard lessons learnt from the credit crisis might suggest investors shouldn’t be trying to pick up the proverbial nickels on a railway track. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor In a blog post in May I pointed to research by Yale academic Hongjun Yan that hedge fund managers are far more likely to choice so-called ...
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• Taleb and his book Fooled by Randomness

  
  SanjayJohn.com — Authority: 99
  Nassim Taleb as I have mentioned earlier is one of the smartest human beings in the world right now. His book Fooled by Randomness is probably going to be one of the few books which people will read after 200 years, like Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations or Darwins "The Origin of Species". In showing us how we often ...
  2 weeks ago

• Part 4: Interview Series with Aaron Blaisdell of UCLA

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 115
  ( Above: Janss Steps at UCLA--a great place for sprints!) Finally, the much anticipated Grand Finale of the excellent interview series with Dr. Aaron Blaisdell , Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) . Part I & Part II & Part III KP = Kai Pottenger AB ...
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• Real Estate: Banks, Dubai And The Black Swan

  
  The Commercial Real Estate HandBlog — Authority: 99
  Greetings from New Mexico…. I found out today that New Mexico is not LAST in everything.  We are first is DWIs as well as the first state to adopt a Real Estate Recovery Fund…which has now been adopted by most states.  So…yes…we do have pride in being first….or maybe we have pride in being last? ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quote of the Day

  
  tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com — Authority: 139
  I just recently finished reading Nassim Taleb’s book, “The Black Swan” and found it very insightful.   I’m not saying that I agree with everything he says or even with his assessment of Bernanke.     I do, however, agree with him on the irresponsibility of the Senators in Washington.    Government ...
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• Quote of the Day

  
  Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate — Authority: 435
  I just recently finished reading Nassim Taleb’s book, “The Black Swan” and found it very insightful.   I’m not saying that I agree with everything he says or even with his assessment of Bernanke.     I do, however, agree with him on the irresponsibility of the Senators in Washington.    Government ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nassim Taleb Protests Bernanke Reappointment By Going Into Self-Appointed Exile

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  And so economists begin their protest against the perpetuation of the farce that is US economics, and the madman in charge of the USS Titanic - Ben Bernanke. Nassim Taleb has decided to go into exile courtesy of the imminent reappointment of the man who not only caused the near destruction of the financial system, ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Primal Blueprint: An Epistemocratic Map for Health Decision Making

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 115
  Maps matter. Especially in cognitive psychology (thanks to Dave Lull). In practice, cognitive maps for decision making dont tell you where to go or how to navigate in every specific case or at every point in time; instead, they provide sign posts, indicators of contours and textures, notes about landscapes, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Recession is Over, Welcome Back to the Depression

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 525
  One turkey turns to the other... "Things were pretty rough there for a while...what with the recession and all. But now theres a recovery. Business is picking up." "Yeah, this is great...no more hanging around this place waiting...finally, the boss says were all shipping out today..." "I wonder what were going to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dominoes Through the Generations

  
  The Committee of Public Safety — Authority: 122
  I’ve been following Kotare’s examination of the Generations of War (4GW) framework over at The Strategist : On the bullshit of “generations of war” Roots – the origin of “generations of war” “We few, we happy few, we band of [1GW] brothers” “Cohorts of War” – a general framework ...
  4 weeks ago

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