They have these investments that are effectively an engineered kind of bond, an incredibly complicated financial instrument created by Harvard physics PhDs using massive computers.

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That's made this financial wizard, with degrees in mathematics, physics, electrical engineering and acoustics, quite rich.

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But although economists hate to admit it, the patterns of financial markets are nowhere near as certain as those of, say, physics.

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