This April 12, 1908 report in The New York Times describes a different, earlier John M. Coates, who “is supposed to be an eccentric globe trotter, with plenty of money to indulge his tastes” and who “was today committed to the Newburg Insane Asylum by Judge Harden of the Probate Court.” (That’s an excerpt from […]
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Boys Will Be Boys: Financial Trading
Manly and womanly behavior diverge when people play the stock market, hints this report: “Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investmen,” Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 116, no. 1, February 2001, pp. 261-92 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/003355301556400). The authors, at the University of California, Davis, report: Theoretical models predict that […]