The Times comments on recent US research which concludes that a particular type of person tends to make the best financial trader.
Psychopaths are people unable to empathise with human emotion, those who feel no qualms of guilt or flashes of sympathy. Who better, therefore, to invest our money or trade our shares?
The American researchers found that the suppression of emotion, usually the result of a brain lesion, also creates splendid lawyers and company chief executives.
