The world’s not just a stage. It’s a casino, and our lives are games of chance. And when people calculate the odds in any life situation, they are often making judgments about similarity—or (strange n...
Why did investment banking pay so many people with so little experience so much money? Answer: When attached to a telephone, they could produce even more money. How could they produce money without ex...
A thousand people don’t build anything; if you need to build something really complicated really fast, you hire fifty of the smartest people you can find.
Some broker somewhere took out a handsome fee for himself, without necessarily doing much work.
There must be some connection between his excessively romantic attitude toward computer programming and his appeal to women.
A Home without Equity Is Just a Rental with Debt,
Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions. Refusing to draft college players might have been one of them.Bill James
Because metaphors are vivid and memorable, and because they are not readily subjected to critical analysis, they can have considerable impact on human judgment even when they are inappropriate, useles...
But the more rural the American, the more dependent he is for his way of life on the U.S. government. And the more rural the American, the more likely he was to have voted for Donald Trump. So you mig...
Dark pools were another rogue spawn of the new financial marketplace. Private stock exchanges, run by the big brokers, they were not required to reveal to the public what happened inside them. They re...
He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.
Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment. The authors, Brad Barber and Terrance Odean,
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