Some of my hard-boiling noir for the weekend. Part of my One Page series.
Click the link, every one is… SO GOOD
In other words, JP Morgan Chase, entirely without any help from the government has lost, in this one set of transactions, five times the amount they claim financial regulation is costing them.
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| — | Barnie Frank piles on. HT Peter Thal Larsen. (via ftalphaville) |
Wise words from Nate Silver
There have been only 16 presidential elections since World War II. That simply isn’t a lot of data, and overly specific conclusions from them, like “no recent president has been re-elected with an unemployment rate over 8.0 percent” or “no recent incumbent has lost when he did not face a primary challenge,” are often not very meaningful in practice and will generally not carry much predictive weight.
