irrationality

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Options remain the best way to monetize investor irrationality and emotional dysregulation.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

America's top banker Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of US bank JP Morgan, said he was worried, and Google boss Sundar Pichai told the BBC there was "irrationality" in the current AI boom.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 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

The possibility of social irrationality resting on a base of individual rationality is suggested by a slight variant of Condorcet’s original example.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos