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Finance & Innovation

In investment banking, exploiting regulatory loopholes is often called innovation. 

Investing

Investment finance, as taught by business schools, is a study of sophistication and precision applied to guesswork. 

Markets

Markets are as efficient as democracies are egalitarian. 

Fashion And Credit

Fashion and credit cycles are self-correcting i.e. their wide and easy availability results in their decline. 

Shorts

The problem with shorting a stock is that you don't know for how long the irrationality of the market will last. 

A good explanation of why the government bailouts are not working

Quantitative easing from Marketplace on Vimeo .