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Patrick Commins

Markets, manias and modern-day fortune-telling

If you can understand human bias, you can at least start to understand how markets work and, more importantly, don't work.

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More than a decade writing about financial markets has left me with an unhappy conclusion: I have no idea what is going on.

I'm being dramatic. I have some notions.

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Patrick Commins reports and comments on trends and news in domestic and global investment markets. Connect with Patrick on Twitter. Email Patrick at p.commins@afr.com
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