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Be Wary Of Economists Wielding Short Samples

Correlation by xkcd, a webcomic Oh, the age-old correlation-implies-causation argument. Please reference the blog titled “How to Spot Advocacy Science: John Taylor Edition” posted yesterday by Freakonomics.  It depicts charts prepared by Stanford professor John Taylor and acknowledged by Harvard…

Comic Relief In Jackson Hole

Brown Capuchin Monkey Comedians from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) have hedge fund traders and financial bloggers snickering, including this must-read example at Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis. Some of their economic positions as committee members at NBER…

Hedge Your Hedge

sneigwh.blogspot.com Say it ain’t so.  How many more obscure, undercapitalized financial institutions are lurking in the midst?  According to a New York Times investigative article, and summarized here, Customer Asset Protection Company (Capco), based in Burlington, Vermont, may be at…