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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by chillacy on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:04PM (#22560514)
Past performance is no guarantee of future success. Using the worst case scenario so far as meaning "worst possible scenario" is a fallacy (consider that the past "worst case" was already surprising to people back then because it was worse than the "past's past").

Not to imply we should panic over a low probability event, just pointing out that we should be careful about Kurtosis.

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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by lend000 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:19PM (#22560666)
Note that I wrote "worst likely scenario" not "worst possible scenario."

Worst possible scenario is not really useful for short to mid term planning in an unconstrained event space (gamma ray burst or massive meteor hits Earth, etc.).

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