Quote from Gabfly1:
I think this thread goes a long way in explaining why so many people lose money in the markets. Specifically, they see what they want to see rather than what is actually there in front of them. When a politically conservative "patriot"/climate change denier points to Russian "findings" against climate change and simultaneously dismisses NASA's findings as well as that of his own country's Defense Department, then I am reminded of a trader nursing a losing position and searching for an indicator, any indicator, that will justify his hanging on to a bad trade.
Quote from Gabfly1:
How confident would you be in a broker who tried to sell you shares of a company whose stock was underwritten by their investment banking department? Would you just swallow the sales pitch whole? Keep on grasping:
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Is the attachment not visible to you? Do you not remember all of the "science" presented by "experts" who dismissed any hazards associated with smoking? Do you not remember who funded the "research" that resulted in those "scientific findings?" Can you really not follow the bread crumb trail here:Quote from jficquette:
That is what is going on here. You have thieving politicians(brokers) trying to sell you on an idea that was ginned up by a bunch of lying scientists and beaucrats(Investment Department).
Quote from Gabfly1:
I think this thread goes a long way in explaining why so many people lose money in the markets. Specifically, they see what they want to see rather than what is actually there in front of them. When a politically conservative "patriot"/climate change denier points to Russian "findings" against climate change and simultaneously dismisses NASA's findings as well as that of his own country's Defense Department, then I am reminded of a trader nursing a losing position and searching for an indicator, any indicator, that will justify his hanging on to a bad trade.
Quote from Gabfly1:
Is the attachment not visible to you? Do you not remember all of the "science" presented by "experts" who dismissed any hazards associated with smoking? Do you not remember who funded the "research" that resulted in those "scientific findings?" Can you really not follow the bread crumb trail here:
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Quote from Gabfly1:
Is the attachment not visible to you? Do you not remember all of the "science" presented by "experts" who dismissed any hazards associated with smoking? Do you not remember who funded the "research" that resulted in those "scientific findings?" Can you really not follow the bread crumb trail here:
Quote from jem:
Hence the quote from Seykota that we get want we want from the markets.
So far -
We have russkies saying the data set was incomplete.
we have emails from the lead researchers showing they manipulated data --
on the other side
So I asked for the best evidence of global warming and
I got a study conducted on a volcano which shows CO2 rising.
Quote from bigdavediode:
Umm... actually what you have is 1) Russian economic think tank versus 2) climatology data which you didn't really understand and therefore dismissed.
Thus you gave them equal weight in your mind.