Showing posts with label pessimism bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pessimism bias. Show all posts
Friday, December 21, 2012

Predicting the End of the World: The Mayan Calendar

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Armageddon is upon us. That’s according to some people predicting the apocalypse based on the 5,000 year Mayan Calendar which ends today De...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Why Not to Pay Heed to the Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse

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Emotions based issues sell because people are emotional animals. Yet among all the emotions it is fear which is most powerful . That’s why h...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

I Told You Moment: Philippine Phisix At Historic Highs!

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This is the fundamental problem with relying on macro-accounting tautologies; people often bring in causal arguments from economic theories ...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Explaining Popularity In Terms of Predictions: Dr. Nouriel Roubini’s Case

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This seems like good news to me. My favourite mainstream Keynesian bear, Nouriel Roubini, appears to have ‘capitulated’. Mr. Roubini, a popu...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Uncertainty And Pessimism Bias

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Popular blogger and lawyer Barry Ritholtz has a great piece on uncertainty at the Bloomberg. Mr. Ritholtz writes , (bold highlights mine) ...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

Bad Record Of Doom Mongering And Interest Group Politics

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Here is Matt Ridley on the dismal track record of doom mongerers (or the pessimism bias). [hat tip M ark Perry] (all bold emphasis mine) ...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Why Are Intellectuals Pessimistic?

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Author Matt Ridley in an interview says , "my answer is that pessimism gets attention – from funders, from the media, from governments ...