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Every five-year-old who can answer “paper” won’t turn into a financial analyst who puts a buy rating on Honda at $25, or have the mental skills to do so.

Slightly OT:

I had hoped that our current economic situation would help obliterate the myth that our best and brightest work on Wall St., but apparently we still have some convincing to do.

A good intelligence test will predict which children will grow up to be doctors and engineers. If you want to find the future financiers, you should put them all in a room and see which kids start bullying the others.




No, that's wrong. It may predict MBA types but not financiers.




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