behavioral finance

Universal Basic Income is Welfare

The idea of a universal basic income has found growing support in Silicon Valley as robots threaten to radically change the nature of work. Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar is the latest tech bigwig to get behind the concept. His philanthropic investment firm, the Omidyar Network, announced Wednesday that it will give nearly half a million dollars to a group […]

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Propaganda is Obvious

Because it is excellent, I’ve cut and pasted from a fascinating- and chilling -article by Berit Anderson and Brett Horvath from scout.ai  If you wanted reasons to spend less time on line, well here you go.  The full article is at https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine  This is a must read.  Thanks Tom Civiletti for your post.The upshot:  political, social

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Follow Your Gut

I want to profusely thank Brian Love for his excellent Behavioral Finance article in the latest issue of Financial Advisor IQ (The Incredible “Shrinking” Advisor).  Love’s article reiterates why the most important aspect of our profession is not securities analysis or projecting rates of return.  So I title this post with the myth that you should

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