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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Kid Dynamite's corollary to Godwin's Law

As a comment thread on any financial, economic or political article or blog post grows longer, the probability of someone blaming the underlying theme or a tangential effect on high frequency trading approaches one.
Posted by Caveat B at 11:47 AM
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