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Stuart Kirk

Almost 800 people guessed the weight of an ox at a country fair in 1906. Individually, the results were mediocre, but collectively, the median estimate was within 0.8% of the true weight.
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How crowds become stupider

The IMF’s report, which comes out twice a year, is in the writer's opinion the best when it comes to explaining the interplay between economics and finance.

Why I love the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report

Shareholders should be able to directly pick their CEO.

It’s time to let shareholders choose the CEO

In strategist reports, causation is often claimed when the two numbers are merely correlated – if even that.
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Relative measures can be absolutely wrong

If a miner of coal is unsustainable, then so is the truck company hauling the stuff. And why not its tyre supplier or the rubber maker?
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Rebranding ESG won’t save it from internal contradictions

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