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Time is Money (Really!)

You may have noticed that different kinds of loans tend to have very different interest rates. For example, a typical 30-year mortgage today has an annual rate of about 6% (which is very low by historical standards). That might not seem like much, but 30 years is a very long time. Imagine you’re buying a [...]

Correlation is not Causation: George Washington Professors Need a Refresher Course in Statistics

Every night, around the time the sun sets, my local television station runs an evening news broadcast. It’s been this way my entire life – a setting sun means that the evening news will be coming on shortly. But what if we said this: Since the sun always sets at about the same time as [...]