“While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it remains to be seen whether these decisions lead to predictable errors that create systematic mispricings upon which rational investors can readily and economically capitalize.” HumansHuman BeingsDecisionTheoryEvidenceRemainsErrorsInvestingFinancialRationalInvestorsIrrationalApostlesPredictableSystematic Author:John C. Bogle
“It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make it harder to get access to certain kinds of electronic evidence. But it also prevents crime by making our computers, our infrastructure, our medical records, our financial records, more robust against criminals. It prevents crime.” KindMayCertainDifficultRecordsCrimeComputerEvidenceHarderFinancialTechniqueCriminalsAccessMedicalBeing TrueInvestigationInfrastructureRobustEncryptionMedical Records Author:Matt Blaze
“I called for a consumer protection financial bureau before it was created. And I think the best evidence that the Wall Street people at least know where I stand and where I have always stood is because they are trying to beat me in this primary.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingStreetsWallBeatsEvidenceFinancialProtectionPrimariesConsumersConsumer Protection Author:Hillary Clinton
“It seems to me that at least as far as the financial markets are concerned, there is increasing evidence against rational expectations, even at the macro level.” SeemsLevelsExpectationsEvidenceConcernedFinancialRationalFinancial MarketsMacro Author:Kenneth Arrow
“People are trying to build a society where they can talk across the aisle so to speak, and have civil discourse. At the same time we're trying to inform ourselves about what's really true so that we can make evidence based decisions that is better than superstition or rumor. But the fact is that people who use evidence based decision making have much better life outcomes, greater life satisfaction, they live longer, they make better personal and medical decisions, better financial decisions. But parallel to that is you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.” PeopleTryingReasonSpeakDecisionEvidenceFinancialMedicalDecision MakingBetter LifeRumorBetter PersonReally True Author:Daniel Levitin
“Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.” YearsCountryNextNumbersRiskStudentsHighestEvidenceIncreaseStartingFinancialInterviewsBritainRoutesProgrammesVisa Author:Theresa May
“Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.” WorldDoeImportantProblemJusticeEffectsDiversityEvidenceCrisisSocial JusticeFinancialAidsLocalsPollutionDestinedFinancial Markets Author:Susan Sontag
“There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.” ReasonReligiousMistakeClearCrimeEvidenceFinancialTragicEthicalOverwhelmingExecutionPenaltiesDeath PenaltyAbolish Author:Jimmy Carter