Monday, May 21, 2012

TO ME, THIS WAS THE IMPORTANT POINT

Reuters has a news story about how mathematics & intense data mining is taking over segments of the investment industry and aside from a waste of talent, there's this key point:
The turtles' edge, like trend-followers today, was in exploiting the reality that mainstream economic theory doesn't allow for: financial markets don't behave efficiently, but follow vogues and panics.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

http://robertreich.org/post/23545418964

Fair and balanced.