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<div><span style="font-size:12.8px">>Though these were all
experienced and confident men, the average year to year
correlation in their results was 0.01. The highly rewarded
experts of finance have no real idea what they're doing,
they are highly rewarded for an "illusion of skill"<</span><br>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px">One of my
father-in-law's best friends was a man named Eli Shapiro who
was the Alfred P Sloan Professor of Economics at MIT. My
FIL asked him some question about stock investing. Shapiro
said, "Chuck, nobody knows anything."</span></div>
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<p>And yet there is a huge amount of money flowing into the pockets
of the financial advisors, stock brokers, economic pundits, etc.
Giant buildings are built to house the folks working in that
industry right next to their Insurance Industry cousins?<br>
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<p>I take "the efficient market hypothesis" at face value (as best I
can) so it doesn't surprise me that anyone's presumed/imagined
ability to predict significantly is at least very limited.</p>
<p>I think this is one of the reasons that an open-ended "growth
economy" is so popular, it make everyone willing to take on the
mantle, a <i><u>"tide whisperer"</u></i>, pretending their
shamanic actions/words are lifting those boats?<br>
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