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The Folly of Certainty

The Memo by Howard Marks

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Intro

This chapter explores how certainty can be misleading and inaccurate, highlighting examples from politics and macroeconomics where people confidently predict uncertain events, only to be proven wrong by unexpected outcomes. The speaker challenges the idea of absolute certainty in situations where randomness and unforeseen occurrences are prevalent.

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