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Quantitative Easing and too big to fail
Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 03:31 AM EDT
The investment banks did all fail. In the words of 'Fame', 'and this is where we
start paying'.

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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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Successful investment strategies
Authored by: ailuromancy on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 05:42 AM EDT

Profitable investment banks are well aware of the value of ignorance. Years ago there was a study: several methods of selecting stocks to invest in were tested. The second most successful method was to pick stocks at random. The best method was to ask a bunch of random people to pick stocks, and go for the most popular. At the time, the preferred technique (which came third) was to compare current market statistics to a historical record. When a match was found, it was assumed that stock values would roughly repeat what they did last time. To some extent, it worked - perhaps because analysts in various investment banks saw the same patterns in the same data and convinced their bosses to bet on the same stocks. I do not know vodou stock prediction method is currently fashionable, but I am sure the reason it works is because the majority of investors are using the same gambling system.

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History
Authored by: Nick_UK on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 06:56 AM EDT
The quote is 'the only thing we learn from history is that we
forget history'.

Nick

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Re:second time is a farce
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 06:32 PM EDT
Considering that the Great Depression wasn't the first go
around, either. The first, IIRC, ended in the French
Revolution.

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