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  "id": 691178,
  "title": "Mistakes in financial economics",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/mistakes-in-financial-economics",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-12T18:46:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Marginal Revolution",
    "slug": "marginal-revolution",
    "url": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/08/mistakes-in-financial-economics.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "I feel like this is almost deliberately missing the point. My median expectation is that AI boosts the economy enormously, so shorting things would be a terrible idea. But non-trivial tail risk is that it kills everyone. So shorting things would be pointless. That is from Tom Chivers. It is easy enough to say buy […] The post Mistakes in financial economics appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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