Quote of the Day: Prenatal Financial Markets Are the Next Frontier

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| Mon Jan. 21, 2013 10:34 PM PST

From Roger E. A. Farmer, on why financial markets might not be as efficient as we think:

The inability of our children to trade in prenatal financial markets is sufficient to invalidate the first welfare theorem of economics.

Hmmm. Prenatal financial markets. There's gotta be a way that Goldman Sachs can get a piece of that action. Just give 'em a little time to think it through.

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