Born into a Big 5 investment banking family, I quit organized financial racketeering to go straight. MacDougal Irving is my Blogger Protection Identity, and I am a retired Certified Public Accountant and, like all of us, a badly misinformed investor. These are my observations on capital market cons as they were explained to me across the dinner table as a kid.
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October 15, 2014
Ebola News Desensationalized
We at the Post have no idea what to make of the ebola media hysteria that includes, as we noted previously, an estimate by some UN dude that, if you run his numbers, would result in the extinction of the human race by March 15, 2016, one month before our 2015 1040's are due to be filed. Here's a Seeking Alpha piece by epidemiologist Christopher F. Davis offering the kind of information we're not getting from the Propaganda Machine. Who knows whether he's right or not, but it's the only ebola coverage we've found that seems reasoned and useful; his views certainly make sense:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2564155-irrational-ebola-fears-what-to-do-and-what-not-to-do