Worth the risk?

This is a chart of the Nikkei ETF – I have chosen the US listed version over the local one simply because of the higher volume, greater liquidity and therefore better price discovery. I don’t find the panic selling of the past week very interesting, what I find interesting is that these sellers didn’t seem…

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A Cluster of Quakes

Are huge quakes linked or is this just another demonstration of clustering that humans have difficulty understanding. From New Scientist – “What is clear is that for the 6.2 years since 2004, there have been more great earthquakes around the world than in any 6.2-year period throughout the 110-year history of seismic recordings.” -Thorne Lay…

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Interesting

This is an interesting article from Wired the science mag. Although looking at the only graphic in the article I am not certain their metric is doing what the article claims that it is capable of doing. If you look at the graphic it began its move towards zero (the crash zone) in 2003 and…

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