“It’s hard not to root for America and democracy when you’re part of the system,” said hedge fund manager Brad Gerstner.  

“In the US, you had ten bad years in a row (during the Great Depression) and it still turned out to be a pretty good century, said Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs.  

“Algorithms know everything about price but nothing about value,” said my old investor and mentor Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors.  

“I looked all over the basement when I was at the White House, and there is no big lever you can throw to make things good again,” said Austin Goolsby, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.