... I can remove $1000 from my bank account that was previously earning the risk-free rate and use that sum to either: 1) play poker, play roulette or bet on...
... there ... exists. ... Respectfully, John, this strikes me as a distinction without a difference, and it's not even a valid distinction. In the U.S., for ...
... them at the target prices should be seen as a kind of gambling. So all value investors are gambling. So are all fund managers, except the index fund and...
I think gambling is a thing you do with spare cash where the outcome is not in your control (deal of a card, ball on a roulette wheel), speculating is putting...
When I trade/invest in stocks... I make money about 79% of the time break even 16% of the time and lose money about 5% of the time.. When I play a game like...
buy low.... sell high... heh... but seriously I spent 11 years dabbling... and then 3 years as a "pro trader"... before I struck out into doing it full time on...
The most promising field in neurofinance is trading. Trading is similar to others high pressure activities like for instance high-level skiing. Pattern...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the Behavioral-Finance group: Between gambling and financial market do you see (multiples answers...
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In fact the original work was conducted by Joseph Ledoux “Emotions and the Limbic System Concept” in Concepts of Neuroscience 2, 1992 and Emotional Memory...
... money will grow (as with buy and hold of quality stocks, or real estate, knowing that the value can go up and down, but over the long term it tends to be...
Yes. People are in the market--or the casino--because of hoping and things "tend to" (as someone else posted about how the market goes up over long periods,...
If all kinds of risk taking, whether created or assumed, are equivalent to gambling, then living is gambling. Every dinner, trip, relationship, marriage, job...
To me gambling is a neutral term. Definitional-ly - and it really does come down to definitions or propositions of meaning - gambling, in my view, is the...
In the long term, economies and corporate earnings as a whole tend to have positive bias. Thus, it is not a zero sum game. Mild inflation is an acceptable norm...
... "tend to" (as someone else posted about how the market goes up over long periods, aka, "tends to".) Sorry, but the market does not go up over long periods....
... equivalent to gambling, then living is gambling. Every dinner, trip, relationship, marriage, job and movement etc. can involve some kinds of risk and hence...
positive bias in equities only breaks zero sum if you assume that there are no economic externalities. e.g. a manufacturing firm that dumps toxic waste into a...
obviously my perspective is heterodox. yes, productivity and technoloical improvement result in ways to increase profit. but the profit is still exacted as...
Hi, dear members and visitors! Here is your 103rd month newsletter. 1) Monthly activity The number of (non bouncing) members reached 1850 (-5) Yes, minus 5,...
If you have $100 and I have $0, after giving me $50 by you the total utility of having $50 owned by you and $50 owned by me together would be higher than the...
I think your debates may be reasonable in a local view, but would be wrong in a global view. From a global view, they are like half a bowl of water, if you put...
well in some ways your response is it's own answer. historically, the theory of marginal utility was the response to marxian economics. bourgeois theory had to...
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