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Trust Me, I'm an Economist III

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Uploaded by on Nov 26, 2006

Tim Harford in the BBC 2 show, with a demonstration of why you should never trust the experts.

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  • well, this is productive, applying economic logic on common terms and showing it to most people. He might be doing something positive in alleviating the huge gap between economics as a science and common lifestyles.

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  • THATS KINDA TRUE. but a company might have experienced portfolio managers, who could increase your income

  • Actually, if you get a hot tip from a senator you probably should take it.

    The paper, "Abnormal Returns from the Common Stock Investments of the U.S. Senate", by Ziobrowski et al. shows that their portfolio outperforms the market consistently.

    They truly are "experts" (wink)

  • Nice

  • this was my 1st lesson in eco 101...lol

  • I do like this video

    thepetfly. blogspot. com

  • The show was more a one off kind of thing contrarybear

  • i'm sure he could've used his brains on something more productive

  • This guy is great. His book was pretty good at explaining economic concepts in comprehensible terms, and the show looks pretty decent too. Is it doing well?

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