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In Fluke, author Brian Klaas brings up a question: If life is indeed all chaos and chance, how do we believe that everything we do matters?

(Bloomberg Markets) -- In November a curious paper dropped on SSRN, an online hub widely used by economists to circulate their work. The paper’s authors are two of the most important figures in academic finance: Kenneth French, of Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, and Eugene Fama, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from the University of Chicago. The article itself seems modest, reading like a technical footnote to research the duo published 30 years ago, about stock market...

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." -- David Bowie

Unsurprisingly, pop culture gets the multiverse wrong. Here's how it really works and how to escape this place

Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media

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"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." -- Groucho Marx

In Tremor, the novelist and critic explores the limits of storytelling itself.

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