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Yup! He's snuffed it

Benoit Mandelbrot RIP!

If the fuckin Politicians had listened to Mandelbrot

We would have avoided the Global Banking Crisis...

And this Wednesday's cuts..

So -

Let that be a lesson to us...

Do away with Boom & Bust

Vote Mandelbrot!

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Quote: Colonel Juan

Yup! He's snuffed it

Benoit Mandelbrot RIP!

If the fuckin Politicians had listened to Mandelbrot

We would have avoided the Global Banking Crisis...

And this Wednesday's cuts..

So -

Let that be a lesson to us...

Do away with Boom & Bust

Vote Mandelbrot!

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...bit early for the RED ain't it....

where's the poxy translator for the colonies? EH?

Mandelbrot = Peter Mandelson's half bro., IMHO.

Nice one QM....

Hi Morsie..

Today's Red is blinkin 0% cough medicine..

Never heard of Mandelbrot?

Genius!

Measured impossible things..

Like clouds .. and even stock markets..

Predicted the bank crisis.. (like many others)

Warned the politicians it would collapse..

Totally Ignored.... "Boom & Bust had gone forever"

Anyway..

We should expect that lethal cocktail of greed/fear to consume spivs like bankers..

But NOT elected politicians..

which is why the politician's plea "It was the bankers wot done it"..

Doesn't wash!

They were warned!

Mandelbrot...

Look in Images for a 'Mandelbrot Set'..

They're exquisite..

It's a shame old Benoit never visited The Spoof.

He would have been fascinated by the infinitely recursive forms exhibited daily in the top stories box!

Colonel Juan - your comments relating to economics to chaos theory are totally on point.

Business math is for flat-earthers.

On the other hand, non-linear equations can't help much either, because thanks to information technology, there is no more "invisible hand" - the market has already become self aware!

Hi SFO...

Thank Cheryl that someone on here knows what the blinkin eck Mandelbrot was all about... (up-market Maths)

What's the story with your US politicians then..??

Over here, our glorious ex-PM and his mates still go around shouting it was a 'Global Crisis' which couldn't possibly have been foreseen by anyone - which therefore had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with us...

Bollocks..

Absolute twat vajazzled bollocks..

anally waxed rubbish..

Etc..

But the truth'll never come out..

Too complicated for the likes of me...

Who'd be a banker?

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Quote: Colonel Juan

But the truth'll never come out..

Too complicated for the likes of me...

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It's not as complicated as you might think.

I sort of predicted it myself around 2003-2004. Driving around the Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio areas for my job, I was amazed at all the new home construction. McMansions going up everywhere.

Around that same time, I read something in the Playboy Forum about Las Vegas to the effect that, if new hotel construction continued at the then current rate, there would be enough hotels in Las Vegas for every single person in the U.S. to go on vacation at the same time by 2050 or something like that.

I predicted a crash for Las Vegas based on this information, and wondered what would happen if a Texas land developer started working on a subdivision that would take 5 years to complete only to find everyone already had a new house by the time he was finished building it.

Add this to the fact that wealthy Yankee investors yank their money out of the stock market at the first hint of trouble, triggering and amplifying negative economic consequences, and you have a recipe for disaster.

Would you like fries with that?