The Market for Wisdom
Aggregating opinions can help predict everything from corporate sales to elections October 2012
In The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis celebrated the brave few who, prior to the crash of 2008, refused to swallow the Kool-Aid being ladled up from Wall Street’s sterling silver punchbowl. “The best way to make money on Wall Street,” one of these mavericks dared to think, “was to seek out whatever it was that Wall Street believed was least likely to…