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...true or not. They buy or sell a stock simply because it's moving in a given direction. As long as the information moves the market, they may be willing to act on it. "Traders today are willingly complicit in the dissemination of false information," says John Coffee, an expert on Internet securities fraud at Columbia University Law School. "That's why they often flock to [the] chat rooms with the worst information, so they can find material that will destabilize the market one minute before they profitably pull out the next...
When Katie Couric wanted to bring national attention to colon cancer, she turned to an expert--Lisa Paulsen. It isn't that Paulsen is an expert on the disease, although she's learning fast. Her real skill, as president and CEO of the nonprofit Entertainment Industry Foundation, is raising public consciousness--and money--by using some of the biggest names in show business to focus public attention...
...fact, Bricka might just be the world's expert on water walking. He accomplishes the feat by balancing himself with a double-sided paddle on a pair of cance-like skis--and for overnight trips, he uses as his "rest stop" the catamaran that he drags behind him and which is stocked with supplies. In 1988, Bricka walked 3,502 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands to Trinidad--a stunt which landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest distance walked across water (though one has to wonder what kind of competition...
...expert in development and macroeconomics, Kremer's areas of research include fertility, education, research incentives and economic growth...
...then there's Pakes, an industrial organization and econometrics expert...