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Spam is No Free Lunch
SpamStockTracker bought a virtual porfolio of every stock recommended in spam emails and then tracked the results over the next several months. The results? Oh come on, I don't really have to tell you do I?
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on October 6, 2005 at 07:14 AM in Economics | Permalink
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THE WISDOM OF SPAM....Via Alex Tabarrok, Spam Stock Trader decided to buy a virtual portfolio of every stock mentioned in a spam email he received. Results here. Actually, he did better — or, more accurately, less disastrously — than I... [Read More]
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