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How Google Can Avert the Next Financial Crisis
- 127001brewer 14y ago... Currently, most of the information that would be needed to calculate DebtRank or any other similar measure is simply not public. That's why this idea won't work - banks simply don't disclose their risk levels. And the article's title is misleading: Google is not building an algorithm to avert financial crises. A team of European physicists and economists created an algorithm (called "DebtRank") based on the PageRank algorithm to identify patterns that could potential lead to a financial crisis. (But, again, the "DebtRank" algorithm needs more data that's not publicly available.)
- kshatrea 14y agoThe current financial crisis is primarily one of debt. This is because of excessive government spending. How is an algorithm going to change that?