Even when I was a child, as soon as they saw that I liked the smell of petrol at the pump in my father?s garage,…
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I am astonished these days. Universities are setting themselves up to eagerly adjudicate charges of sexual assault which by rights and logic should be considered…
Comments closedWhat are the new, emerging risks that people are not paying attention to? 1. The changing role of money? Greenpeace International, an environmental charity, just…
Comments closedIncredibly clever lyrics by Gershwin in this great
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Comments closedWhen I was a kid I liked to draw, and when I was a professor in Boulder Colorado in 1980, I took a group drawing…
Comments closedEvery couple of years I make some attempt to condense the principles of financial modeling:
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Comments closedLife is a pinball table, and you are both the player and the ball. You shoot yourself in, you get bumped around by those reflecting…
Comments closedSome people have claimed that because Fama and Shiller have opposing models of the market, economics can not be a science, on the grounds that…
Comments closedThere are only two workable principles that I know of in financial modeling. 1. Use Analogy: If you want to know the value of…
Comments closedOccasionally I despair of the way people teach quantitative finance. They put so much effort into teaching students to do the heavy lifting of equivalent…
Comments closedLast night I impetuously ordered Pynchon’s new book on my iPad, as an iBook. I haven’t started to read it yet. Maybe on a plane…
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Comments closedI?ve lived in New York for more than 40 years, and watched its gentrification from up close. On Amsterdam and Columbus Ave in the Seventies…
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