Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

Eight Things to Know About the U.K. Vote

But there's really only one conclusion: Nobody knows anything.

Oh whoopee.

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Well, the Brits have really done it now. All the experts told us people in the U.K. were smart enough to see that voting to leave the European Union was a mistake -- but not to worry because the referendum was going to lose. I once again must invoke the wisdom of screen writer William Goldman, who as regular readers will know summed up almost everything you need to know with the world's three most important words (no, not those words -- see Item 7 below).

That said, here's how I see it: