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Dragon-king of the outlier events

This is a black swan.

This is a dragon-king.

Which are you more terrified of?

In a new paper, author and physics professor Didier Sornette, presents the concept of “dragon-kings” — outlier events that exist within conventional power law distributions. More…

Who controls the stock market, or, physicists do it differently

Imagine a group of physicists looked into the global financial industry. What remarkable things could they find?

Covariance strategies? New risk management models? The origin and prevention of asset price bubbles?

Or, More…