Thank you abbatia! I've contacted their flagship Today programme, listened to by the British establishment on its way to work, and the only...
Modesty can be harmful in this case - the fail safe option is to spam, to reiterate the obvious, to repeat ad nauseam the commonsensical. It would...
Why not forward such original research (possibly even with sources and methods) to Prof. Burton Malkiel? He's turned out to be very receptive to...
This article is very skillfully argued, and has an all-star cast: a top mutual fund company CEO and a leading market efficiency proponent from the...
This is designed to imply a consensus in support of the Tobin tax. Which cannot be further from the truth - just google this: tobin tax...
I did ;) Actually, they have been very helpful. I've used their sales tax analogy to come up with rather a decent defense of a 100 times lower...
So the *long* message to the middle class is this: "Once the small traders are gone, and banks are exempt, whom will they tax? This tax has to be...
Could you add citations to these salient facts to the Tobin tax Wiki page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax ? I've already added...
... but "soft" location measures ;) just repeat this analysis replacing arithmetic mean with median - it might change the outcome a bit. After...
So after a 50-fold increase in price*, the quantity demanded stays the same? That is so new, man, you should publish immediately, the 'science' of...
Surprisingly, it easily could, even without any drops in volume. In the interest of fairness, because it is always likely to be the most powerful...
Per-instrument exemptions will be the hardest ones to justify. In fact, if they ever come up with a production version of the tax, it will most...
Traders won't change their noise- and overtrading habits easily. The solution must therefore come from within the industry, i mean: exchanges -...
...and the traditional media is full of them. Just listen to the 'File on 4' on high frequency trading (a BBC Radio 4 programme from 03/11/2009,...
Spot on. Please stop blaming us for being 'wasteful' with the brokerage industry's scarce resources, especially when calling remote (slow) order...
Are you sure you did not compute returns by applying the standard formula to pair prices? What is the annualized volatility of a typical pair...
How can I get killed when expectancy is on my side? So let me pull the trigger once more... An unfounded application of otherwise rigorous...
...of the *reported* sick... conditional on their being sufficiently ill to report... which may mean anything, because the reporting frequency is...
Sure, there ain't free money in quant strategies, just premia for poorly understood or bona fide unknown risk factors. Here we seem to have a...
And the chief manipulators are these guys - WHO. Their current phase of the pandemic alert is 4. It has changed overnight (GMT time) from 3....
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