Monthly Archives: September 2018

(Reuters) Walmart warns Trump’s tariffs may force it to hike prices

By | September 24, 2018

And that’s OK. This is exactly what the tariff should result to (at least part of the intention). The tariff episode is really a mean to an end to get to the final objective when countries will lower or eliminate the tariff all together. However, given the disparity of development in different nations, the “grand”… Read More »

Reminiscing the financial crisis is dangerous

By | September 17, 2018

In the past week, almost all major news outlets are publishing their “10 year” series: 10 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, 10 years since the past financial crisis etc. It was probably nice to write those events into history textbooks and read about them once in a while. However, I have to remind… Read More »

Less is More – one common conjunction fallacy

By | September 10, 2018

Recently I read about an interesting experiment from the book “Thinking, Fast and Slow”.  It is about the way our brain works and how to utilize more of your System 2 and constantly checking against the usual intuitions and stereotypes created by System 1. (System 1 is the part of the brain that is giving… Read More »