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This is correct. http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/11/silicon-valley-a-reality-check/ … It's also likely to get less traffic than peoples' Juicero hot takes.pic.twitter.com/2sVP1JcjW7
I don't think I said anything bad about Wall Street except that when they screw up it causes recessions.
I'm not an expert in econ but I'm not sure to what degree Wall Street creates values. The existence of some kind of loan-giving...
...institution seems good, but I don't know how much hedge funds and weird derivatives add to that in a non-zero-sum way.
And I mean "don't know" literally - if some smart economist wants to tell me it's a lot, I'll consider believing them.
So the standard defense of hedge funds etc. involves a discussion of price signals as conveying useful info across parts of the economy. 1/
For example, consider a fund trading oil derivatives. Say they notice something that's going to cause Brazil to consume more oil next year
The firm bids up oil price futures, causing oil companies to invest more in production and oil consumers to plan to reduce consumption. 3/
That seems kinda useful. Theorists will tell you same applies to derivatives on currencies, interest rates, mortgage risk. At some point: 
I agree that seems potentially useful, but is there any reason to think the right amount of resources are being allocated there?
EG I've heard hedge funds don't outperform the market even though the people who run them make lots of money.
Also heard there are weird arbitrage opportunities via eg neutrino-based signals (see http://www.nature.com/news/physics-in-finance-trading-at-the-speed-of-light-1.16872 … ) You could get ...
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