moneyning.com - 10/5/2009
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Stop what you are doing and read the following statement three times.
Don’t trust anyone who is giving you advice on a decision that he/she wouldn’t make.
It’s so obvious isn’t it, but many of us (myself included) fall into this trap on a regular basis. At the ...
Who can you trust?
pajamasmedia.com 9/25/2008 — What a fine mess we’re in OllieA 3 month old video produced by the Boston Globe describing the effect of Barack Obama’s housing reforms in his district makes interesting viewing. The accompanying article explains that “the squat brick ...
Trust and Credit
aleablog.com 3/13/2009 — Paper by Jefferson Duarte, Stephan Siegel and Lance Young
Abstract:
This study considers the impact of trustworthiness on financial markets at the individual transaction level. We employ a natural experiment using the peer-to-peer lending ...
Trust us…
likelihoodofconfusion.com 10/14/2009 — … we’re reporters. (Via Instapundit.)
Originally posted 2006-08-30 14:57:57. Republished by Old Post Promoter
Who Do You Trust?
four-pillars.ca 3/5/2009 — Almost two years ago Promod Sharma at Riscario Insider wrote a post , partially in response to something I had written, about “ Who can you trust? “. Promod suggests referrals as a way to trust someone you start doing business with, and in the ...
Trust us! We're economists!
themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com 12/13/2008 — From This Modern World comes a look at what economists hath created, featuring a special appearance by Paul Krugman (hat tip EU).
In Times of Crisis, Trust Capitalism
realclearmarkets.com 9/29/2008 — The US government is executing a coup d’etat of capitalism and I fear that we will pay the price for many years to come. Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke and a host of others tell us the credit market is not working and the only way to get it working again ...
The effect of the financial crisis on systemic trust
springerlink.com 9/4/2009 — Abstract Policymakers throughout Europe are faced with the challenge of re-establishing trust, and especially systemic or institutional trust, that has been lost in the wake of the financial crisis.
Trust
gregmankiw.blogspot.com 7/26/2009 — In a post on healthcare , Paul Krugman makes a thought-provoking observation: You could rely on a health maintenance organization to make the hard choices and do the cost management, and to some extent we do. But HMOs have been highly limited in ...
Should we trust the forecasters?
tvhe.co.nz 3/3/2009 — I’ve been flicking back over some posts by Robin Hanson at Overcoming Bias and came across this one about judging the reliability of macroeconomists’ advice:
It turns out that many macro economists frequently forecast future macro events. Furthermore, many places keep standardized ...