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TVO’s ‘Big Ideas’ – Another treasure trove.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

TV Ontario produces a lecture format show featuring heavy thinkers. You can subscribe  here. I’m posting links to a particular show I found especially illuminating on the subject of micro-financing and a new

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Bloomberg: CPI Inflation Data is a “Lie”

Sunday, October 14, 2007

We have long railed against the absurdity of the CPI data. The ridiculous adjustments, the lack of correlation between CPI prices and reality… More

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A SHORT COURSE IN THINKING ABOUT THINKING

Sunday, October 14, 2007

A “Master Class” By Danny Kahneman
Danny Kahneman along with Amos Tversky won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics for their discovery of behavioral economics. I learned about them through reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Fooled By Randomness” and then Daniel Gilbert’s “Stumbling on Happiness” I’ve become very interested in cognitive biases- as I [...]

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