can be found in marriage. This speech, which will have to act as your lecture this week and last, is the best one I have heard in a very long time. Had I all the time in the world, I would do my best to relate it to several other topics, including the life and…
DetailsThe U.S. financial system faces a major, growing, and much under-appreciated threat from the Federal Reserve’s risk modeling agenda—the “Fed stress tests.” These were intended to make the financial system safe but instead create the potential for a new systemic financial crisis. The principal purpose of these models is to determine banks’ regulatory capital requirements—the…
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CompassRose makes yet another h/t moment, this one pure gold, and describes very well some of the narcissists we all know… If everyone around you is an idiot, most likely you are a jerkface: Picture the world through the eyes of the jerk. The line of people in the post office is a mass of…
DetailsThe US will be selling Iraq an air force.
“The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.”
Piketty, watch out!:
This article is a glimpse of an argument to come on SNV. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences is a paper written by Eugene Wigner, Nobel Laureate in physics, noting how incredibly strange it is that mathematics defines our world so completely. A lecture about the article can be found here, but…
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