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The Underbelly of Corporate America: Insider Selling, Stock Buy-Backs, Dodgy...

The hollowing out of corporate strengths to enable short-term profiteering by the handful at the top leads to systemic fragility. Anonymous comments on message boards must be taken with a grain of...

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The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 3: Multiple Risks, Multiple Unknowns

It is these unforeseeable and uncontrollable consequences that are poised to wreak havoc on the global financial system. Here’s the thing about risk: it bursts out of whatever is deemed “safe.” It...

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Uncertainty and the Humility of Forecasting an Unknowable Future

Certainty and uncertainty come in a variety of flavors. “Certainty” seems rather definite, but lurking beneath certainty is the more scientifically verifiable notion of probability: the probability of...

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