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don't have to worry about externalities,
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and yes you have to worry about perfect competition but once
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you've got perfect competition that's the end of the story.
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So the rest of the course now is going to be,
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if you forget about externalities because you forget
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about pollution because we're trading pieces of paper,
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they're not polluting anything,
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why shouldn't the financial markets be efficient?
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Why doesn't this argument apply to the financial markets,
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and one of the critical financial markets is the credit market.
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So can you understand the credit market on just these
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terms and therefore argue that the market's efficient?