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Market Capitalism; a job for monkeys

For those of you who sleep secure in the knowledge that Wall St. investors are making the best decisions on where your hard-earned capital goes, you might be interested to know that, in terms of stock performance over the last year, the 22nd-highest-performing stock analyst was - a six year old female chimp by the name of Raven; who selected stocks by throwing darts at the company names; her chosen stocks delivered a 213% gain on the year; outperforming the feeble efforts of over 6,000 human stockbrokers.

And who said it wasn't all just a lottery?

Farinata.
(And yes, she was paid peanuts.)

Follow Ups:

• Six years you say? Gee si January 14 19100 (0)
• The lottery of wealth and happiness. Darcy Carter UK January 14 19100 (4)
  • Lotteries require lots of losers Farinata L'inferno January 14 19100 (3)
    • Darcy Carter likes to talk about Adam Smith Stoller January 15 19100 (2)
      • To witness my consumption of the pie Darcy Carter UK January 17 19100 (1)
        • Thanks for the predictable procapitalist platitudes Barry Stoller January 18 19100 (0)
• So a monkey... Stuart Gort USA January 14 19100 (0)