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Market Science, Psychology, and Psychosis

Monday, May 5, 2008

Learning from our mistakes? Flies can do it. Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn’t Better
It takes just 15 generations under these conditions for the flies to become genetically programmed to learn better. At the beginning of the experiment, the flies take many hours to learn the difference between the normal and quinine-spiked [...]

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George Soros as God

Saturday, May 3, 2008

The more George Soros talks, the less people care what he thinks.

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Did Bernanke Save us from another Great Depression?

Friday, May 2, 2008

The Great Depression Debate
Bernanke and many other economists believe the Fed’s failure to bail out stricken banks between 1929 and 1932 was one of the main reasons the Depression lasted so long. In 1932, Herbert Hoover established the Reconstruction Finance Corp., which lent to banks, railroads, and other troubled businesses but failed to reverse the [...]

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