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Tom Au
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  • New York, New York
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I took a double major in Economics and History in college in the 1970s. My "sweet spot" probably lies at the intersection of those two subjects. For instance, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" was really an "economic" admonition--to conserve ammunition.

I am the published author of "A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing" (Wiley, 2004), an (economic) "history of the future," and the unpublished author of "Axis Overstretch," an economic analysis of World War II.

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Should answerers be held responsible for updating their answers when the questions are revised?
Dec 1, 2017
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How skeptical should we be about Wikipedia references?
May 23, 2020
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Why was this question closed as being "opinion based?"
May 9, 2021
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Can we "question ban" a particular user instead of suspending him altogether?
Jul 5, 2016
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How should we deal with "Identify this item" questions?
Aug 9, 2017
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How should we deal with "Identify this item" questions?
Aug 7, 2017
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What should be our policy on requests for sources or references?
Jan 21, 2019
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What is History?
May 24, 2013
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I am quite annoyed with this closed as not real question
Apr 8, 2013
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Mar 19, 2012
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Were there women who were against giving women the right to vote?
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Is it true that there are more slaves in the world now than ever at one point in history?
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Why China was able to unify and not Europe?
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Why did the Germans spare Allied troops trapped at Dunkirk?
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Why did Peter the Great name Saint Petersburg, Russia with a foreign styled name?