Why Are There So Few Women in Finance?
Where Are the Women in Finance? The numbers are improving, but have a long way to go. Bloomberg, February 24, 2016 Today I...
Strategists: Full of Bull
“Salil Mehta is a two-time Administration executive, leading Treasury/TARP’s analytics team, as well as PBGC’s policy, research,...
Hypocrisy, Perry is Thy Name
@TBPInvictus here: I recently put up some commentary about Mark Perry’s table purporting to show that euro nations without a...
50 Best Places to Work
From Glassdoor, via Bloomberg, the best places to work in America. Note that Google was deposed from the #1 spot by AirBnB this year....
Stop Hyperventilating Over U-6
@TBPInvictus here. Since the economy’s been more or less chugging along like The Little Engine That Could, those with an agenda are...
Fantasy Sports as a Top Heavy Sucker Play
Regarding my Fantasy Football betting column this week, check out this from McKinsey via Sports Business Daily: ■ The top 11 players...
Don’t Suffer From Denominator Blindness
Don’t Be Blinded By Big, Scary Numbers Context is critical when dealing with data. Bloomberg, October 14, 2015 Today...
Fantasy sports is a losing bet (for the players, not the house)
As they say in poker, If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy. —...
Interview with Richard Thaler
University of Chicago behavioral economist on stock markets, NFL drafts and the importance of trust Douglas Clement | Editor, The...
Red State, Blue State: Kansas & Washington
@TBPInvictus here. We have interesting experiments going on in the state of Kansas and the city of Seattle. Herewith a brief update on...