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it only looks irrational…
Humans have a very strange ability to understand how irrational we are and yet build complex systems which demand that everyone involved is perfectly rational. In his appearance on the Daily Show,...
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do trading algorithms create a shadow market?
Your money is at the mercy of an enormous financial beast that even its human handlers can’t understand as it creates a complex shadow market almost undetectable to even the most experienced bankers...
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do we need a crackdown on stock trading bots?
I know, I know, this blog just went from discussing porn and medical research to a post on high frequency trading and its implications from a business and computer science perspective. But that’s just...
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why bitcoin is not doomed, but not it’s not the next global currency either
When an investment loses half its value in about six hours, people notice and people worry. So as the virtual bitcoin currency fell from about $260 per BTC to $130 per BTC during what had to be a...
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when what’s profitable doesn’t mean what’s right, and what we’re wired to do...
Almost 200 years ago, British economist William Forster Lloyd was writing about the overuse of common goods and coined the term tragedy of the commons. When people act solely in a very self-interested...
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