[FRIAM] ill-conceived question

[Prof David West]

Major investors lose little — certainly as a percentage of wealth — because they have the super-high speed systems and insider status to ameliorate their loses. As always, it is the smaller investor that cannot trade in milliseconds, but in minutes and hours, that loses the most.

davew


On Sat, May 2, 2020, at 4:12 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote:
> Would the rich, with proportionally more in the stock market, be disadvantaged by drops in stock prices? I suppose, on the other hand, they would tend to have enough cash or equivalent to to take advantage of the price drops to buy stocks at reduced prices.
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> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:02 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Given that the super rich have the resiliency to respond to any crisis, I have a hard time imagining anything that would disadvantage them EXCEPT taxing the living daylights out of them. We did pretty well on 90% marginal tax rates. ____

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>> I agree about the White Quarantine. ____

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>> Nicholas Thompson____

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>> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Prof David West
>> *Sent:* Saturday, May 2, 2020 3:02 PM
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>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question____

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>> I once taught an honors course, with Father Smith at St. Thomas on the Anthropology and Theology of War. One of the prime forces behind war — since prehistory — had been nothing more than birth control.____

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>> On Sat, May 2, 2020, at 12:37 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:____

>>> Well, in a sense that’s correct. But their method of “birth control” <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238356686_A_Utopian_perspective_on_ecology_and_development> is not one that I am prepared to take as a model. Just imagine the worst sort of dystopian post apocalyptic novel. See the description of the Calhoun experiment on p 224.____

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>>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology____

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>>> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels____

>>> *Sent:* Saturday, May 2, 2020 12:15 PM____

>>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>____

>>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question____

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>>> < You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24 rats were put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and watered and protected to see how the population would develop. They never got above two hundred. >____

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>>> Maybe the rats were right?____

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