Sentences with phrase «by irrational»

That is because, contrary to mainstream economic theories and conventional wisdom, the markets are not moved by rational logic, but by irrational emotional human beings.

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In order for a client to change, the cognitive therapist focuses on problems the therapist believes are caused by irrational thinking or faulty perceptions.

Feeling jealous of an ex-spouse is difficult to control because it's caused by irrational anxieties and fear of loss.

Barry Scheck, co-director and founder of the Innocence Project in New York, said, «I'm still stunned by the irrational decisions of some prosecutors and law enforcement not just to do the test and find out.

Of course when people are motivated by an irrational fear that CO2 is going to burn up the planet, it will not effect their honesty or contribute to confirmation bias.

Instead of individually - minded, «homogenous globules of desire» that act with our own best interests in mind as certain social darwinists would have it, we're deeply affected by an irrational set of concerns like the opinions of others and ideologies.

Fisheries around the world have suffered from similar histories of collapse caused by irrational exploitation encouraged by pricing based on greed and thin air.

And don't forget to make the point that the 10 coal fired power stations are being built to replace the nuclear power plants Germany is being forced to close down by the irrational, extremist, loony greenies:)

The idea of there being scientists on the one hand, opposed by irrational sceptics on the other has been established so concretely that few editors, peer - reviewers or journalists even bother to ask questions about the content of the consensus, much less about how it is contradicted by the substance of climate sceptics» arguments.

On the debate concerning alternative energies, which is sensible, it is often driven by the irrational climate debate.

Unfortunately, too many of America's homegrown little Eichmanns and disciples of Mao and Al Gore — blinded by irrational fears of Thermageddon — have lost the ability to repress their natural instinct to tell everyone else what to think, what to do and how to live.

But a tipping point has now been reached, with objective scientists and the public finally rejecting the quacks who remain possessed by the irrational fears of saturated fat and cholesterol.

Poverty is largely a result of poor governance as demonstrated by irrational controls on people and goods or the failure to provide for the protection of law (or both).

In my experience, discussions of nuclear power with nuclear proponents who begin the discussion by accusing nuclear critics of having «minds closed in their youth by irrational anti-nuclear sentiments» are not likely to be fruitful or edifying.

Hopefully your post gets buried deep into the bowels of the internet and no one is infected by your irrational opinions,

A problem with confining your returns to stock prices is that they are determined by the irrational Mr. Market.

Shiller is saying that the portion of stock prices that is caused by irrational exuberance is not rooted in economic realities, it is cotton candy nothingness that is fated to disappear into the mist in time.

The greater fool theory states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants.

Some believe the market crash was caused by an irrational behavior on the part of investors.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- The heavy pace of private equity deals being brokered on Wall Street is not a bubble being driven by irrational investors, but rather the result of an arbitrage opportunity in the market, said Citigroup's chief U.S. equity strategist.

The pair's subsequent adventures in this land of reckless magic, governed by irrational rules, is fraught with danger, and Alice and Oliver must learn to trust each other in order to succeed.

The whole thing plays out like a Stephenie Meyer penned episode of Midsomer Murders in which each character's dramatic arc is offset by irrational actions and illogical judgements.

Fear keeps us alive, but it can also ruin our lives: Survivors of traumatic accidents or attacks may be haunted by terrifying memories, and those with phobias are tormented by irrational fears.

Although the venture was initially successful — he broke even in four months instead of the usual two years — he became gripped by an irrational fear that he might not be able to provide for a future family.

Certainly this would explain the fact that the market cycle is characterized by irrational exuberance at its peaks and irrational pessimism at its troughs.

But it also means there's none of the mind - melding brain - fog of ecstatic sleeplessness overlayed by the irrational fear that a bird is going to fly in through the window and take the baby hostage *, along with the never - ending ride on the hair - raising postnatal emotional rollercoaster, with happy joy followed with the deep panic that you have no idea what you're doing and are going to break them and why am I crying again?!.

More annoying because by their irrational extremisim they doom efforts at secularization at every turn.

Or as Justice Kennedy put it, we're motivated solely by an irrational animus.

But then we get group or herd mentality, often driven by irrational religious beliefs, and murdering someone in another group becomes permissible, if not highly encouraged.

or of the mystical, he does not mean by this the irrational.

Finally, the entire planet is affected by the irrational belief systems of the various mainstream religions.

The entire planet is affected by the irrational belief systems of the various mainstream religions.

The rational self could hardly be responsible for its defeat by these irrational forces.

The churches have sown irrationality and unbiblical ideas and now our nation is run by the irrational and immoral.

It weakens one's own position by irrational purges, exclusions and fragmentation, instead of strengthening it by rational discussion.

It doesn't take much to understand conformity (faith), especially when it's backed by irrational thought and violence.

the entire planet is affected by the irrational belief systems of the various mainstream religions.

If that is the case, then irrational exuberance is always going to be followed by irrational depression.

But since we have seen markets sometimes overwhelmed by irrational exuberance or pessimism, we believe that an individual CEO can be unfairly blamed or credited for what is in fact a broad shift in valuation of many similar companies.

Not exact matches

«Bubbles are by definition irrational.

Thank God I'm just a grandparent these days, without school - aged kids who are trapped in an increasingly bizarre and irrational world run by adults - mostly parents and otherwise unemployable administrators — where the rules, the procedures and the approved behaviors vary daily and the changes come so rapidly and abruptly that the characters in Alice in Wonderland would be totally jealous.

Peikoff also helpfully answers the burning pop - culture question: If the movie E.T. is anti-adult and anti-science — as, by objectivist philosophy, it clearly is — does that make it inherently evil and irrational?

«This is a consequence of irrational exuberance and the fact that some brokers so far are not allowing short trades in the future,» Hansen said by email.

Markets, according to Shiller, are driven by psychology, and hence they can create irrational bubbles, Dunham says.

«As Robert Shiller's new 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral economics and market volatility asserts, the irrational exuberance of the stock and housing markets «has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

By one closely watched measure of valuation, Alan Greenspan's irrational exuberance warning should be keeping investors near the sell button.

He thinks these companies are being started and run by people who are either irrational or sadly deluded and that a massive shakeout looms.

Failing this sort of bold action, Hofmeister sees North America entering an «energy abyss» by the end of the next decade, the result of land (mis) management, an irrational aversion to nuclear power, and 50 years of ignoring serious questions about our resource base and the infrastructure that powers society.

As such, behavioral funds seek to take advantage of pricing anomalies that may exist in the continuum between rational investors and irrational investors by tracking their sentiment and decision - making.