By Ocean on Sep 29, 2009 in Articles of Interest, Featured | 0 Comments
Having mentioned in the past that Buying Local is not a realistic manner of saving the environment, we are greatly pleased to see our points of view reaffirmed in a paper by Hiroko Shimizu and Pierre Desrochers entitled: “Yes We Have No Bananas: A Critique of the ‘Food Miles’ Perspective”
They take many examples, and show [...]
By Ocean on Sep 24, 2009 in Featured, Money Saving, Other | 0 Comments
More Resources, this time on getting humans, on how to clean, and on opinions. As always, these will be featured in our Resources page:
GetHuman : If you’re tired of calling customer service only to have a recording ask you to press this and that and then put you on hold, just follow these steps to [...]
By Ocean on Sep 22, 2009 in Articles of Interest, Featured, Our Theory | 0 Comments
We recently came across a blog by Charles Davi, and more specifically an entry entitled The Not So Efficient Market (Theorem) Hypothesis. Here Davi gives a very mathematical argument against the Efficient Market Hypothesis. While we like the fact that he states his argument in equation form, we cannot help but disagree with [...]
By Ocean on Sep 17, 2009 in Featured, Letters/Contributions, Our Theory | 1 Comment
Dumbagent.com’s article “Top 5 Reasons NOT to go Local” has been featured by This Young Economist on BlogCarnival.com.
It has also been attributed to Aleb, so Congratulations to you as well!
By Ocean on Sep 15, 2009 in Featured, Prediction Markets | 0 Comments
One of the first (organized) examples of the Dumb Agent Theory at work was the Policy Analysis Market (PAM), a market proposed by DARPA and shot down by the United States Congress, which called it the “Terrorist Market”.
In a nutshell, this would have a been a market in which people could trade futures [...]
