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Slate Money on Risk-Maxxing

Talking with Felix Salmon about risk and trickle-down eschatologies
Scott Smith

by Scott Smith

Slate Money on Risk-Maxxing

Well, this happened. Thanks to Felix Salmon, of whom I'm a long-time fan, and Slate Money for the invitation to talk about my in-process theory of risk-maxxing. Thanks also to the inimitable Kevin Slavin for making the link.

Felix pushed in some useful places, and gave me additional things to place (such as this and this). We also crammed in all the acronyms — ZIRP, TINA, YOLO, and many more. I'll be curious what the response is to this conversation.

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