The World Complex
Interweaving threads from science, politics, economics, and history.
Friday, October 4, 2013
One more time--the distinction between human- and algo-trading
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The markets do not act like they once did. The trading in certain stocks is operating on time-scales so small that they cannot be in respon...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Arctic sea ice in phase space
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Another September has passed, and with it the annual minimum extent of Arctic sea ice. This year we saw a minimum of 5.1 million sq km, whi...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
The tipping point of 2008
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As before , I have compiled this graph from official figures released by BLS and the US Fed . Scatterplot of unemployment rate vs re...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Is war really the health of the State?
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I've just started looking at this paper (link corrected) by Turchin et al. (2013) (model results here ). The basic premise is that th...
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Why do Ma and Pa play in a rigged market?
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“ They have been able to pay off politicians with political campaign funds and have been granted informal and unspoken yet complete immuni...
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