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The Introspective Speculator

Friday, May 30, 2008

How Fairness Is Wired In The Brain -ScienceDaily.com
Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have discovered that reason struggles with emotion to find equitable solutions, and have pinpointed the region of the brain where this takes place. The concept of fairness, they found, is processed in the insular cortex, or insula, which is [...]

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Black swans spotted on the flyover

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

I happened on an article about black swans, as Nassim Taleb had recently been speaking at a CFA (Chartered Financial Androids) function and a reporter for the Financial Times was in attendance, blogging, not reporting, because as we all know the two are very different. I wondered with all the talk of recession, and [...]

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Comic T-Shirts for Venture Capitalists

Monday, May 5, 2008

Venture Capital Wear

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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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Trader Testosterone Study

Saturday, May 3, 2008

The actual study is locked up in the vaults of academia, but here’s a few links.
Testosterone Levels Predict City Traders’ Profitability – Science Daily Stock Market Winners Get Big Payoff–In Testosterone – Scientific American Study: Testosterone Fuels Stock-Market Success – Fox News
Since few reporters and bloggers have actually been [...]

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