We model and test for the role of heterogeneously informed, strategic multi-asset speculation for cross-price impact—the impact of trades in one asset on the prices of other (even unrelated) assets—in the U.S. stock market. Our investigation of the trading activity in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ) stocks between...

This article revisits a disconcerting phenomenon. The history of prominent 17th and 18th century moral theorists who exhibited disapproval of all forms of suicide is well known. Nevertheless, there are many bioethicists who continue to claim that either these moral theorists never actually opposed suicide, or that they never believed in the inalienable right to life and liberty that is an impor...

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In his recent book, Race, Intelligence and Education,b H. J. Eysenck has written: 'I would be prepared to assert that experts (real experts, that is) would agree with at least 90 per cent of what I am going to say-probably the true figure would be a good deal higher, but there is no point in exaggerating' (p. 15). The major thesis which his book sought to establish was that 'all the evidence to...