We hear all the time about
how irrational the market can be, but it's so crazy and fun to see it in real - time.
Not exact matches
Markets became
irrational about
how profitable the financial sector could become relative to the underlying economy, and in response to these
market pressures, finance came up with increasingly elaborate schemes to make money that weren't sustainable.
«It's so obvious to me that you can't judge portfolio's results over a few years, considering
how irrational and unpredictable
market quotations are in the short run» Francois Rochon
We also discuss the Efficient
Market Hypothesis,
how and why
markets can be
irrational, and what it was like to be part of the Quant Flash Crash of 2007.
The question of
how and when a government or central bank should intervene in free
market «
irrational exuberance» is much debated.
In an environment of such
irrational exuberance
how can we expect Amazon to focus on the boring old
market of eReaders?
It's
how the
market tends to gravitate toward fair value for most securities, even if it takes a long time and a lot of
irrational pricing to get there.
This highlights
how irrational it is for young adults to worry about a
market decline.
I think the harmful «moral absolutism» is in fact coming from people with
irrational beliefs that mainstream climate science must be wrong because A) it runs counter to their religious beliefs (the «God wouldn't let us screw things up» camp, who like to say
how we're too small and insignificant to actually affect Earth's climate) and / or B) it runs counter to their political beliefs (in that they think environmentalism = liberalism, and that liberalism = the evil commies) and / or C) it runs counter to their fundamentalist belief in the transcendant wisdom of unregulated
markets («get government out of industry's way and everything will be allright!