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Jobs was a product guy, his love of the product led to great innovations, but his actions were ultimately governed by a profit and loss mechanism that redounded in amazing ways to his myriad worshippers.
FORBES: Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" Is a Great Lesson In Economics
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Since negative returns are at play, a loss aversion mechanism kicks in, and people will actually go double or nothing in order to keep from losing thereby taking more risk.
FORBES: By Stephen Horan, PhD, CFA, CIPM
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In the end it's questionable how much extra money a Loss and Damage Mechanism might bring.
BBC: Doha climate talks: US faces dilemma over final text
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Compensation is an increasingly hot issue in the talks, with small nations demanding the inclusion in any 2015 agreement of a "loss and damage mechanism" whereby rich nations would pay them to rebuild from, say, extreme storms.
BBC: Harrabin's Notes: Broken engagement
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Developing countries are attempting to bolt down as many commitments as possible and they sense that there may be some movement on a new mechanism for loss and damage.
BBC: Climate compensation row at Doha
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Had there been some limiting mechanism to prohibit large trades that doomed Dooley, there would have either been no trade or a limited loss that would have resulted in him being fired.
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