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Scott patterson is an american financial journalist and bestselling author. The quants, as patterson describes them, couldnt care less about a companys fundamentals, amorphous qualities such as the morale of its employees or the cut of its chief executives jib. But as the catastrophic events of 2007 and 2008 showed, their seemingly failproof methods were little more than ticking timebombs. However, it is conceptually heavy in the first half, with valuable references to the technical books, papers, and. These guys have transformed wall street making themselves billionaires and making the markets potentially more dangerous than the infamously volatile, planetthreatening, krakatao volcano.
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