irrationality
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Options remain the best way to monetize investor irrationality and emotional dysregulation.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
But it’s important to remember that irrationality is often in the eye of the beholder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
It’s simply a matter of taking advantage of structural market irrationality.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 26, 2025
Through the animal’s point of view, De Los Santos Arias considers the enduring grip of colonialism and the consequences of human irrationality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
Like the proof of the irrationality of V2, like the discussion of simultaneity in special relativity, this is an argument in which the premise is challenged because the conclusion seems absurd.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
But they can newly explain so many of the irrationalities that are directly a product of the digital age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Well, all the reading I do is sort of aimed at the general mission of being more compassionate toward other people's irrationalities and skeptical of my own.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024
In this way, Kirsch accepts the standard story about modernity: that ours is an era of “disenchantment” in which the old myths and irrationalities have been crushed under the boot heel of enlightened techno-science.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023
The crux of the problem, as Cowen points out, is that it’s nearly impossible to understand irrationalities without taking advantage of them.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2012
So firmly has this become entrenched in the minds of men that the irrationalities which manifest themselves against such a conception make no impression.
From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks
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