tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post5246783529003714881..comments2024-03-14T11:09:32.759-05:00Comments on Falkenblog: Gazzaniga on PreferencesEric Falkensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07243687157322033496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-70601549448373703282013-02-10T16:44:50.390-06:002013-02-10T16:44:50.390-06:00And yet reading Schopenhauer is just so much more ...And yet reading Schopenhauer is just so much more pleasurable, that it might leave a more lasting impact!Mark Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-3151983857267422372013-02-08T09:13:58.945-06:002013-02-08T09:13:58.945-06:00I'm pressed to think that even though there ar...I'm pressed to think that even though there are differences in how we view things versus how East Asians view things, if we spent enough time in their respective culture, our brains would adapt to their paradigm, or at least have the ability to adapt to it.Ronniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671018674184493285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-31353727606137717022013-02-07T16:33:47.608-06:002013-02-07T16:33:47.608-06:00You betcha. When someone trumpets their honesty it...You betcha. When someone trumpets their honesty it's time to run for the hills. <br /><br />There once was a sanctimonious fraudster who said 'probity'...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-41978116366858089192013-02-07T11:03:37.218-06:002013-02-07T11:03:37.218-06:00I rather enjoyed your book (bought through Amazon ...I rather enjoyed your book (bought through Amazon after Xmas), but I do have one comment on the Falkenstein conjecture. I would note your chart showing the lowest returns in the most volatile stocks has another explanation- one that might be better suited to explain that large anomaly.<br /><br />The most volatile stocks are also the most targeted by the pump and dump crowd, which as we all know regularly operates in the markets, especially in the thinner markets of smaller stocks. Now, the lower returns of high volatile stocks would show that say a planted article on the front of yahoo finance (PGRX this week comes straight to mind), shoots the volume and price right up, and then is sold right back down to a small gain.<br /><br />Pump and dump, with inside info, or just using market maker manipulation, would especially account for a lot of the low returns in that upper fifth.<br /><br />Envy of successful criminals...Citizen AllenMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-52005856862489623252013-02-07T10:18:11.376-06:002013-02-07T10:18:11.376-06:00Hah! Einhorn is all over Apple today about it'...Hah! Einhorn is all over Apple today about it's cash hoard:<br /><br />http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-depression-mentality-grandma-einhorn-145137404.html<br /><br />"Einhorn said Apple is acting like "someone who's gone through traumas ... they sometimes feel they can never have cash.""<br /><br />...or maybe they're just anticipating trauma.Mercurynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-82590708911692371022013-02-07T09:46:35.037-06:002013-02-07T09:46:35.037-06:00I’m not surprised that greed doesn’t seem to have ...I’m not surprised that greed doesn’t seem to have a particular locus in the brain as I think it is a vague and ill-defined quality even though we act as if it is something very specific and identifiable. <br /><br />It’s usually pretty obvious when someone is being envious, fearful or proud but behavior that is labeled “greedy” (usually disparagingly and by others) can often be better attributed to a number of different causes. I can see how the hoarding/stockpiling/penny pinching type behavior that we used to see in old people who lived through the Depression might be perceived as greedy by more affluent and entitled people today. In other words I think greed is more of an external, cultural value judgment than an internal social emotion.Mercurynoreply@blogger.com