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Unfortunately its not true in many cases I have seen, essentially because the tail of the error does not fall fast enough. Technically, for all bounded RVs all moments are bounded, but in some of these situations the variance is so high that its infinite for practical purposes.

All you need is the tail to fall slower than a quadratic.



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