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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

EFFICIENT MARKET THEORY AND THE CRISIS -- BY JEREMY J. SIEGEL, The Wall Street Journal


Neither the rating agencies' mistakes nor the overleveraging by financial firms was the fault of an academic hypothesis.

Financial journalist and best-selling author Roger Lowenstein didn't mince words in a piece for the Washington Post this summer: "The upside of the current Great Recession is that it could drive a stake through the heart of the academic nostrum known as the efficient-market hypothesis." In a similar vein, the highly respected money manager and financial analyst Jeremy


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