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He cited a forecast from a different play-money prediction market site called Metaculus. “What’s the chance of FTX defaulting on any customer deposit in 2022? It was like one point three percent,” MacAskill recalled.
Nate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Reflections on the Ten Attributes of Great Investors
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to get both total honesty from your customers and an impartial and unbiased view of the value experience, it is imperative that no one from your own organization is involved in the one-to-one interviews.
Helen Blake • Creating and Delivering Your Value Proposition: Managing Customer Experience for Profit
As we move from the 1950s to the 1970s and then to 2008, we notice a problem. A perfectly good idea morphed into another good idea, spread beyond housing, and then culminated in uncontrolled insanity. By 2008, no one, including the management of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or the Department of Housing and Urban Development, had any idea of the fragi
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Seth A. Klarman remarks at MIT
valuehunter.files.wordpress.comBy the end of 2007, a whopping 93 percent of completed foreclosures involved adjustable-rate loans that had recently been adjusted.
Jonah Lehrer • How We Decide
Halstead is a sophisticated, "rational" businessman. He knows that the Corporal's strong and unrelenting penny-saving is essential to the survival of the organization in "today's highly competitive business world." What he doesn't understand is that the business is being strangled by his own efforts to maintain profits by cuttin
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