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Economics / banking, Game Stop, Investment, stock market, Wall Street /

Game Stop 2: What Are Stock Markets For?

January 28, 2021

The sudden attention being given to the gyrations of Game Stop stock prices has caused all sorts of hand wringing within the hallowed walls of high finance. In typical fashion the people who like to carry on their trading and associated activities beyond the public gaze are all a twitter because a bunch of apparently crazy […]

Economics / Fama, Game Stop, Schiller, stock market /

Game Stop Fun

January 27, 2021

Game Stop, I trust you know what I am talking about. For those who don’t, all you need to know is that it is a bricks and mortar seller of video games and associated paraphernalia. It had a huge, almost ubiquitous, presence in the malls of America. Then everything moved online. Streaming became the norm. […]

Commentary, Economics / Berlin, democracy, economic theory, ethics /

A Reminder from Berlin

January 21, 2021

Sorting out my old bookshelves I came across an old Isaiah Berlin Essay “The Pursuit of the Ideal”. At the risk of being boring here is a very long extract, he begins the essay this way: “There are, in my view, two factors that, above all others, have shaped human history in this century. One is […]

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