The enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it’s the illusion of knowledge (Stephen Hawking)

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so (Mark Twain)

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THE DAILY EDGE (23 February 2017)

Travelling day.

WHY FACTS DON’T CHANGE OUR MINDS New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.

The article has a political connotation. Its interest for me is rather on the implications for financial markets in this world where social media take so much of people’s time and fill so much of their quest for “facts” and “opinions”.

In effect, this is the first bull frenzy of the widespread social media era. We shall see how people deal and react to facts, alternate facts and fake facts…

Bob Farrell’s rule #4: Exponential rapidly rising or falling markets usually go further than you think, but they do not correct by going sideways

DON’T CONFUSE ME WITH FACTS:

This from David Rosenberg:image