Monthly Archives: August 2010

Ex-BetFair Mark Davies defends betting in the wake of the latest sport corruption affair. – [VIDEO]

Excellent. Download this post if your feed reader does not show you the video. PS: Give me the name of the idiot who booted Mark Davies out of BetFair.

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More Garbage Words: Social Security, “A Minor Fiscal Issue”

Paul Krugman calls Social Security a minor fiscal issue, citing this report in which Social Security spending as a percent of GDP levels off at around 6% in 2030. For someone whose blogging modus operandi is pointing out disingenuous arguments … Continue reading

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Social B.I. … or social B.S. … ?

You will be the judge.

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Mark Thoma, Superficial Blogger

His post, “The Myth of the Social Security Shortfall”, here, but if you don’t want to defer thinking, read Mish Shedlock on pension underfunding instead. Yes, taxes will have to go up, but it’s not as though sunsetting the Bush … Continue reading

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Ex-BetFair’s Mark Davies –> His new blog URL.

The new URL of his blog: http://www.markxdavies.com/ His Twitter: http://twitter.com/markxdavies A portrait of him (BetFair circa).

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Things Jason Ruspini wanna know

“Can we begin to index the broad rate of technological change? What would that curve look like over the last 200 years? How does it correspond to asset returns? Does that say anything about prospective returns?“

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Money does not motivate humans… – [VIDEO]

Higher incentives lead to worse performances: For cognitive tasks: AUTONOMY + MASTERY + PURPOSE.

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The latest Kauffman poll of economic bloggers

- “Grim”. – “Pessimism”.

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Midas Oracle also publishes a twitter feed, which has info you won’t get on this blog.

Plenty of things are not published on this blog, but on our Twitter feed. Do subscribe to it —if you are a PM news junkie. Have a good Summer, folks.

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3 years later, Mark Davies finally sees the light. — [Better late than never.]

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