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Making of Behavioral economics - Health Market Bubble

Link to play Dan Ariely talk at TED click here Read more at Dan Ariely's blog Are we going to forget what we just learned? 28th April 2009, 08:52 am Paul Krugman published an op-ed yesterday about exec salaries . The very sad conclusion he comes to is that because the financial markets seem to be on an improving trajectory (although it is hard to know if this reflects a real improvements in the economy yet) the push to reform the banks could die off. As Krugman puts it: “In 2008, overpaid bankers taking big risks with other people’s money brought the world economy to its knees. The last thing we need is to give them a chance to do it all over again.” We are now in a unique point in time where we just realized the mess we got ourselves into by assuming that the markets will be perfectly rational — and I sure hope we are not going to forget this painful lesson just because the market seem to be slightly higher these days. In...

New Search Engine - wolframalpha

First Review -  wolframalpha Very good Website for analysis of data. Check out the examples page to review some query results About the company -  Goals Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries Review about wolfarmalpha  NYtime.com - The Veil Is Lifted From Wolfram Alpha CNN.com -  New search engines aspire to supplement Google Telegraph.co.uk - Wolfram Alpha v Google: Which is better? Youtube Demo -   Harvardbusiness blog  -  Wolfram Alpha vs. Google = Power vs. Simplicity? Some have said his new project may rival Google because it goes ...

Banks - Stress Test - Fed Reserve

Stress Test = The Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) Release Date: May 7, 2009  For release at 5:00 p.m. EDT The results of a comprehensive, forward-looking assessment of the financial conditions of the nation's 19 largest bank holding companies (BHCs) by the federal bank supervisory agencies were released on Thursday... Read more Overview of Results