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INDEX
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absolute advantage, 211–12, 213
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, 163–64
adaptation, 12, 108–17
agents
autonomous, attributes of, 11–12
in complex systems, 11, 107–9
Agostini, Dale, 252
AIG, 8, 19, 120, 140–41, 145, 202
Akerlof, George, 178
Alwaleed bin Talal, Prince, 137
Amaranth, 162
America in decline debate, 291–96, 298–301
angel investing, 285
anticrowds, 110–11
Apple Inc., 217–18, 219, 254, 262
arbitrage, 287–88
Ariely, Dan, 210
Aristotle, 152–53
art, investing in, 282–83, 284–85
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, 280
Asian-Russian financial crisis of 1997–98, 44, 45, 132–33, 174
asset bubbles, 181, 228
asset forfeitures, 251–53
asset swaps, 179
ATM withdrawals, 33
Austrian economics, 6, 14
automatic stay, 31–32
autonomous agents, attributes of, 11–12
Bagehot, Walter, 14, 234
bail-ins, 25–26
Bair, Sheila, 153
Baker, James, 67, 221–22, 277–78
balance of power, 82–83
Balkan Crisis, 1912, 204
Balko, Radley, 246–47
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), 47, 48, 65, 156, 187, 278–79
bank notes, 59
Bank of America, 30, 130, 264
Bank of Cyprus, 25
Bank of Japan, 30
Bank of New York Mellon, 19, 29
Bank of United States, 39
Bank One, 30–31
banks, 262–63
balance sheet of, 8
capital requirements for, 31, 155–56
consolidation of, 30–31
deregulation of, 153–56
fractional reserve banking and, 59
G-SIFI list and, 18–19
leverage allowed, 155–56
negative interest rates charged by, 29–30
“Banks Urge Clients to Take Cash Elsewhere” (Wall Street Journal, The), 29
Barclays Global Investors, 16, 17
Barnum, P. T., 290
Baruch, Bernard, 257
Basel I, 156
Basel II, 156
Basic Guaranteed Income, 238
Battle of Bretton Woods, The (Steil), 41
Bayes, Thomas, 12
Bayesian statistics (causal inference), 3, 9–10, 12–13, 184–85
capital markets, application to, 99–105
Shanghai Accord and, 101–5
Bayes theorem, 3, 12, 99–100, 184
Bear Stearns, 30–31, 129–30, 139, 141–42, 155, 159–60, 164
behavioral psychology, 4, 9–11
belief systems, 8
Belize, 78
Belkin, Michael, 287
bell-curve (normal distribution) system, 210–11
Bentham, Jeremy, 14
BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) enforcement plan, 75–78
Beria, Lavrentiy, 231
Berkshire Hathaway, 110
Berlin Wall, fall of, 36
Bernanke, Ben, 19, 50, 153, 168, 170, 177
deflation, response to, 228
failure to see risk and understand market collapse in 2007 of, 160
on Faust’s role at Federal Reserve, 178
Great Depression as frame of reference for, 185, 186
on incoherence of international monetary system, 278
on value of quantitative easing, 182
zero interest rate policy of, 180–81
Bilderberg Group, 56, 57
Bismarck, Otto von, 261
Black, Fischer, 208
Black Asphalt Electronic Network & Notification System, 252–53
Black Monday (stock market crash of 1987), 4, 24, 151, 174
BlackRock, 16–17, 19–23, 32, 48, 265
Black Swan, The (Taleb), 288
black swan event, 148
Bloomberg, 137
Bloomberg, Michael, 58
BNP Paribas, 160
Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von, 234
bonds, investing in, 285
Bonfire of the Vanities (Wolfe), 126
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