On 12/28/06, raghu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


The big question is why was Wall St so eager to adopt unproven
formulas based on questionable assumptions. Why were they not scared
of losing money? How indeed did they avoid losing money?

Keynes argued that because of the fundamental uncertainty of the future,
some sort of convention is needed to avoid total insanity. BS seems an
example.

--
Jim Devine / "Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world
are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the
farthest thing from it, because cynics don't learn anything. Because
cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we
are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us." -- Stephen Colbert.

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