Sentences with phrase «contrarian position»

We also would resist taking contrarian positions in sectors facing big structural challenges (e.g. European banks).

This survey also found that the media exposure of contrarian positions is higher in the media, contributing to the consensus gap.

Right now the media also tends to operate under the principle that «controversy sells,» and climate contrarian positions inevitably create the controversy that generates viewer traffic.

Yes, there are still a handful of scientists who like to take slightly contrarian positions, which allows them to be quoted in media stories.

And certainly contrarian positions are useful in leadership team discussions, especially when it seems only one side of the argument has been heard.

Those on both sides of the debate now claim to be taking contrarian positions.

The journal also took contrarian positions on other international issues, including opposing sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa, support for the Bosnian Serb forces and the Hutu militias and opposition to the ban on land mines.

This over-representation of the climate contrarian position in the mainstream media for the sake of false balance is undoubtedly the main reason why such a large percentage of the populace is unaware of the climate consensus.

Liptak quotes Carl T. Bogus, a law professor at Roger Williams University, who wrote in 2000: «Contrarian positions get play.

When a viewer asked Zuckerberg to respond to the remarks, he took a starkly contrarian position.

Thus the climate contrarian position receives nearly as much media coverage as the mainstream position, even though the contrarians comprise less than 3 % of climate experts.

Thagard and Findlay were nonetheless able to model why people might accept the incoherent contrarian position by adding emotional components (such as «avoid government intervention») to the simulation of belief acquisition.

This confirms the results from Boykoff 2013 which also found that in the media contrarian positions are over represented.

While the Wall Street Journal and most market analysts are forecasting a 2007 continuation of the 2006 record bull market, I am taking a contrarian position, predicting 2007 will usher in a strong bear market that will soon begin reflecting the realities of the economic recession we entered roughly 11 months ago, in February 2006.

«In France, we are struggling with our own climate skeptics who enjoy the attention they get for a contrarian position,» she says.

Rather, the contrarian position was to ask what side had overcommitted relative to their ability to carry the positions, and the ability of others to get financing to buy them out.

Those naysayers were an inadequate reason to take a contrarian position; many of them didn't have a dog in the fight, aside from intellectual bragging rights.

The few who didn't or who bet against those securities were eventually rewarded for their contrarian positions.

To understand why value investing does not prevent trends from proceeding beyond fair value, but remains a persistently profitable discipline, we need only consider the profound discomfort required to hold the contrarian positions revealed by valuation information.

We remain quite happy with what our friend at Abnormal Returns calls a contrarian position.

George Soros made his initial fortune by taking a contrarian position; he bet that the British Pound would sell - off when it was high and seemed strong and most people were long.

The lesson that these observations holds for investors is to know yourself and your tolerance for risk or you are likely to be the «other side of the trade,» sacrificing return because it was too painful to hold a contrarian position through a market cycle.

Holding any contrarian position, whether it is part of a dedicated value strategy or a component in a contra - traded rebalancing strategy, such as RAFI, is very difficult for many investors.

But if you're looking to take up a contrarian position against continued gold price increases, there are a few ways you could do so.

As things are, though, they seem quite at ease to assume the contrarian position that an abstract painting doesn't have to be big to be ambitious.

This amounts to a success of the economic interests behind the contrarian position, as the public is left with a far more equivocal view of the situation than the science actually indicates.

I was attacking the market fetishing fundamentalism that informs so much of the contrarian position rather than resort to markets in policy.

Fran Barlow: «It's hard to escape the conclusion that much of the contrarian position simply reflects the desire to fight what they see as a culture war against anything that smacks of human (as opposed to «market») control over policy.»

For the case of climate change, Thagard and Findlay (2011) showed that the contrarian position, exemplified by the opinion that global warming is a natural fluctuation, is incoherent in comparison to the mainstream scientific position.

Some Democrats and environmentalists distrust the Oakland, Calif. - based institute because of its contrarian positions.

Science is never 100 % certain — anyone taking a contrarian position who is 100 % certain is not taking a scientific position, but the media mistake this sort of bravado for a real position on the science.

The first, he told Smith, was that senior executives at the university were having to spend too much time defending Dr Carter's contrarian position.

Where was the contrarian position on this folks?