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Since the advent of securitization as a widely available financing tool to finance mortgages, the industry that was created around it has experienced a wild boom and bust cycle. The boom of the early to mid 1990s was followed by a miserable bust, just as the dot com industry was beginning to overheat, in the late […]
Written by randomfool on March 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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A recent article in BusinessWeek highlights my fascination with randomness and my frustration with how to harness it for my own trading strategy.
Written by randomfool on January 23rd, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Superbowls, like presidential elections, receive so much attention that they are overanalyzed and associated with any number of outcomes that are totally random. In this case, there is the statistic that people actually spend time discussing which uses the Superbowl as a stock market forecaster.
Written by randomfool on January 22nd, 2007 with 1 comment.
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July 7th is supposed to be a big day for weddings due to novelty and an interest in “luck” and numerology. I know exactly what I would buy for any couple getting married on that day.
Written by randomfool on January 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Hillary thinks that she knows better than all of us. She thinks that the poor, uninformed and irresponsible electorate needs a parent to keep us from making irresponsible descisions. I sort of feel like I am Chelsea in 1994.
Written by randomfool on January 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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Barney Frank should stop worrying about stockholders who are just fine, thank you, and worry about fixing the big, stupid corporation that he works for.
Written by randomfool on January 15th, 2007 with no comments.
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I was laughing out loud this morning when I read today’s post on Da Bears Blog and, while serving as a classic example of being fooled by randomness, this blog entry points out why fans of the Bears should be worried on Sunday.
Written by randomfool on January 10th, 2007 with no comments.
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I’m not exactly confident about the Bears’ chances against the Seahawks next weekend even though the Bears beat them badly in week four and the game is at home. Today’s games were a mixed bag and I don’t understand why anyone pays attention to what happened in the past, particularly the distant past, when attempting to predict the outcome of games.
Written by randomfool on January 7th, 2007 with no comments.
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Having 75 people at our hose did not provide the optimal playoff viewing experience but we lucked out that the first game (which was on during the party) turned out to be boring but the second game was very exciting (even if I feel very bad for Tony Romo).
Written by randomfool on January 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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Going into the first weekend of the NFL playoffs, a few of my favorite books by Michael Lewis mixed with some news from the week make me wonder about the role of randomness in football.
Written by randomfool on January 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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