Fox News: Algebra is socialism!

[Monte]

No, that kind of course would be "the computer says we're gonna make a 3000% profit here". Guy in back says "uh, I think something is wrong with the model".

Guy in back disappears.

Love it!

[Monte]

In the meantime, for those that want to see what Eric Bolling actually said, here is a link to the video segment of Fox News' "The Five".
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/the-fi...=1040983441001
Of course, no one at Fox News implied that the algebraic concept of distributive property was socialist, only pinhead progressives did. The segment pointed out the example, and I will spell it out slowly for Soulflower, that's E-X-A-M-P-L-E. The segment pointed out that the EXAMPLE of the rich-looking girl holding out a bag of money was a biased way of teaching the lesson on distributive property. (This is why rational people never take people like you seriously).

And folks, since Soulflower wanted to point fun at Fox News, and Soulflower's attempt backfired, here is a list (by no means not an exhaustive one) of all the fringe-kook, left wing websites that ran this same story:

www.rawstory.com
www.opposingviews.com
mediamatters.org
www.dailykos.com
www.alternet.org
www.democraticunderground.com
jerry611.newsvine.com
www.subchat.com
lunaticoutpost.com
mikethemadbiologist.com
regator.com
beforeitsnews.com
www.huffingtonpost.com

[dsummoner]

Homeboy, I work around shovel monkeys, dirt turds, and the like all day. At this point you are speaking a foreign language to me.

The surface integral will not be denied!

[dsummoner]

Had to take a calc course before I went to business grad school--required that as a prerequisite to acceptance, me being a liberal arts grad. Horrific experience. I aced the course as the instructor pretty much tested straight to the book and you can memorize anything when you have to. I still maintain that should I ever have to calculate how long it takes for a 5 pound rock to fall to the ground from a 50 story bldg I'll just drop one and time the damned thing. In grad school the only application was in figuring rate of change. Stupid calculus. Necessary doubtless but those couple of people who need to know it, God love them. Me, I'll happily rely in them!

No stochastic calculus or synthetic credit derivatives pricing models?

[ms maggie]

No stochastic calculus or synthetic credit derivatives pricing models?

The former wasn't around in the early 70s (in terms of price modeling if that's your reference); the latter I don't recall--my degree concentration was marketing and detailed discussion of credit risk strategies was probably further in the finance track? Derivatives of any sort were much more mundane back then of course.