People may wonder about that, but few might have any idea that financial institutions prefer economic illiteracy amongst their quantitative analysts. I can see how that might keep quants, who are probably on average smarter than their financial side managers, from being quite so much a threat to their own sense of being a Master of the Universe, but it sure makes all of the decisions based on information from quants more dangerous to use.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."