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Re:TWTR by icebraining on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:28PM (#6690743)
I'm guessing parent's talking about Eugene Fama, who shared the prize with Robert Shiller.

He doesn't actually claim the markets have perfect information, just that the price always reflects all available information. In essence, you can't "beat the market" consistently, assuming you have the same information.

Re:TWTR by cheald on Thursday November 07, 2013 @01:37PM (#6691359)
> assuming you have the same information

Which you don't, since Goldman Sachs is always a few milliseconds ahead of everyone else. Given that almost everyone else out there is going to be trading on information that has already been consumed and acted upon by privileged parties, the markets may as well for all intents and purposes be irrational.