"I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but never the madness of crowds," said Sir Isaac Newton, the inventor of calculus and discoverer of Newton's Laws who lost his entire fortune in a 17th century investment scam called "the South Sea Bubble."
"The time to worry about the Fed is not when they go from accommodative to neutral, it is when they go from neutral to tight," said Bill Miller, the legendary former chairman and chief investment officer of Legg Mason Capital Management.
"Kamikaze missions are rarely successful, least of all for the pilots," said Robert Gibbs, former White House Press Secretary.
With wait times for the IRS customer support line recently having extended from one hour to five hours, I thought conditions couldn’t get any worse. I was wrong. I knew the letter from the IRS sitting in my mailbox was bad news just from the color of the paper. It was not light green, the
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“You always sound smarter when you’re a bear than when you’re a bull,” said Adam Parker formerly of Morgan Stanley.
One of the most fascinating things I learned when I first joined the equity trading desk at Morgan Stanley during the early 1980s was how to parallel trade. A customer order would come in to buy a million shares of General Motors (GM), and what did the in-house proprietary trading book do immediately? It loaded
There is no doubt that the “underground” economy is growing. No, I’m not talking about violent crime, drug dealing, or prostitution. Those are all largely driven by demographics, which right now are at a low ebb. I’m referring to the portion of the economy that the government can’t see and therefore is not counted in
"This is an epic bond bubble that we may have just seen the end of, not only here, but in Europe too," said Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakly Financial Group.
When asked about the urban legend that the vaults at Fort Knox are empty, and that the Fed has no gold, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke responded, "I've been to the basement of the New York Fed. The gold is there. I've seen it."