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I suppose all surprised are unexpected. • I was in Cannes on Bastille Day after the GAIM conference and what was most impressive was the…

When I was looking at a really efficient rider in the Tour de France, not sprinting but simply powering along during the main part of…

I was reading the ‘Vows’ section in the Fashion and Style Sunday New York Times today. That ‘s where they describe recent marriages. Here’s an…

We had the orientation for new students at the Columbia FE program yesterday, and I listened to several of our past students talk about how…

I found myself thinking about the relative effects of mundane vs extraordinary events, and the effect they have on human life. In my case, what…

I recently had some students cheat in a course I teach. What irritated me was that they seemed to regard cheating as a sort of…

About a year or two ago I sat on an airplane coming back from London and ended up watching ‘School of Rock,’ without any preconceptions,…

Well, not quite myths, but objections. I don’t like axiomatization in finance. I believe you should learn things more sloppily the first time around, and…

In a recent New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson, one of the men who, almost sixty years ago, help prove that quantum electrodynamic was…

Many interviews now concentrate on giving people technical and mathematical quizzes. You can get books to help prepare for them. Quizzes are good at finding…

I see that my friend NNT comments in his adjacent blog that ‘… what people call Black-Scholes … we should call Bachelier-Thorpe.’ By the same…

I was looking at blogs on google and I found one that referrred to an article I once wrote on how to get a job…

Never done a blog before. If you want to know more about me, look at www.ederman.com……. Bombs away. The other night I went to see…