Behavioral Finance
Even some of the smartest investors on Wall Street keep repeating the same costly investment mistakes without ever realizing it. Note: More of these descriptions will continue to be added over time.
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Smear sheets and the Ricardo campaign
September 30, 2020
Below I include just a handful of the smear sheets which keep circulating around my name. As you can see, the people who post these things strongly encourage others to...
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Anchoring bias
December 11, 2018
Anchoring bias. People have a strong tendency to perceive prices as “belonging” within a range once that range has been previously established. Anchoring refers to our propensity to attach our...
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Herd behavior
December 11, 2018
Herd behavior. An experiment conducted at the University of Leeds showed that it takes a minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd’s direction – and that...
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Confirmation bias
December 9, 2018
Confirmation bias. In the finance world, investors will often over-emphasize information that supports his existing thesis while actively ignoring information which might discredit that thesis. When looking for new information,...