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Did Shakespeare Make the Wrong Decision Going Into Liberal Arts and Not Finance?

Did Shakespeare Make the Wrong Decision Going Into Liberal Arts and Not Finance?

By Josh Zumbrum for Real Time Economics for The Wall Street Journal, 17 February 2015 Rarely do central bankers provide evidence that William Shakespeare may have erred in career choice. But today Andrew Haldane, the Bank of England’s chief economist, presented a chart suggesting exactly that. As part of a wide-ranging speech on topics such as secular stagnation and artificial intelligence, Mr. Haldane presented the above chart of […]

February 22, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized

To Be or Not to Be (in Bonds): Shakespeare as an Investor?

By Paul Vigna for MoneyBeat at The Wall Street Journal, 18 February 2014 Everybody knows William Shakespeare, the great English playwright. What we don’t know is William Shakespeare, the great bond trader. That’s because he missed out on a historic chance to make money playing the bond market, a new study found. Josh Zumbrum wrote about it for Real Time Economics, and dropped […]

February 22, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized