Clayfoot
| Location | United States |
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| Introduction | Former ad manager for a fortune 500 financial services company, w/ MBA. I've long felt financial markets and most securities are riskier than portrayed in the mainstream financial press. I think mainstream consensus sometimes derives from experts triangulating their views from each other, in a kind of "mass-mirroring." In December '08, consensus grew for massive government stimulus and bailouts, with no concern for our government's solvency. My worries about government bankruptcy moved me to start this blog. |
| Interests | Systemic risk, behavioral economics, origins of social norms & moral standards, semantic problems related to all the aforementioned. |
| Favorite Books | The mystery of capital - Hernando de Soto, Against the gods - Peter Bernstein, The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb, Fooled by randomness - Nassim Taleb, The (mis)behavior of markets - Benoit Mandelbrot, The money bazaar - Andrew Kreiger, When genius failed - Roger Lowenstein |