People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis.

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.