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Dear President Obama: I'm Only My Brother's Keeper If My Brother Is My Sheep

By Jerry Bowyer (Feb 10, 2012)

There are lots of things that people think are in the Bible, but really are not. For example, “God helps those who help themselves” is not there, nor is “Cleanliness is next... more

Why Analysts Can't Properly Value Stocks And Bonds

By Jerry Bowyer (Feb 03, 2012)

We’ve already taken a look at the ways in which modern Keynesian economics and its nephew modern portfolio theory insulate finance from economics by failing to use the... more

On Risk, Follow the Iron Lady

By Jerry Bowyer (Jan 30, 2012)

Why does everybody start talking about systemic risk, after a crisis has already started? If we define a systemic risk event as something large enough to affect the entire... more

Forget Systemic Risk, Let's Look For System Saving Events

By Jerry Bowyer (Jan 17, 2012)

I’ve been writing lately about right tail risk, which refers to the possibility of the occurrence of unusual and unexpected events which might make the whole global economy... more

Christmas, Kurtosis, Fat Tails, Black Swans and Risk Management, Pt. 2

By Jerry Bowyer (Jan 07, 2012)

Christmas season is as good a time as ever to remind you that a probability distribution has two tails. Event distributions have been getting a lot of attention over the past... more

Christ vs. Caesar on Wall Street

By Jerry Bowyer (Jan 01, 2012)

Christ was born into the Pagan world of Rome, a world of cyclical despair. As historian of science Stanley Jaki spent his life documenting, the pagan world view was one of... more