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Black Monday

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the BBC posted on Americans win Nobel for Economics:

The committee said the theory they helped to develop "allows us to distinguish situations in which markets work well from those in which they do not. It has helped economists identify efficient trading mechanisms, regulation schemes and voting procedures."

It is an application of game theory when applied to situations where perfect markets do not exist - for example, within firms or in political bargaining between interest groups.

The economists sought to explain how to reach an optimum outcome, such as improved social welfare or greater profits, and to analyse what sort of government regulation should apply to these types of markets.

This Nobel also has some application for electoral systems.

And in case you've missed it, the Vatican has decided to yield its Templar secrets. Yes, the same Knights Templar who are the stuff of legend and myth. What the Vatican is making pubic is a document known as the Chinon parchment. It shows, according to the article "that Pope Clement V found the Templars not guilty of heresy, but guilty of other lesser infractions of Church law. Nonetheless he ordered the disbandment of the order."