From Alan Webb
Mark Buchanan writes about how speculative information causes people to act in stock markets (1 November, p 15). Last summer, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran a story headlined “Stock market rises ten points on rumours stock market would rise ten points”. Rings true, doesn’t it?
The editor writes:
• Even better, we find many instances of people talking about such a story in , but we can’t find the original.
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