Margin Debt Is at a Record High. Here's What That Means for the Stock Market
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Yup. I borrowed (pun unintended) a term from ham radio. SSB, I call it Self-Serving Bullshit.
Here's a list of 151 cognitive biases, the most readable list I found. [0]
I often wonder, with so many biases, how anything at all gets done right.
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Humanity has been working on that problem for a long time: objectivity, empirical evidence, reason, ...
… but what's a few tens of billions between friends?