“That money talks I can’t deny. I heard it once, and it said “goodbye,” said Dee Miller.
“The United States is afflicted with new eras. Let us not think that the current illusion is unique. It is intimately part of the American character," said the great American economist, John Kenneth Galbraith.
“Nobody knew it was August 1982 until it was August 1984,” said Christopher Verrone, head of technical analysis at research boutique Strategas.
“The stock market is very much a mood ring,” said Josh Brown, of Ritholtz Wealth Management.
“October is one of the most peculiarly dangerous months to trade in stocks. The other are July, January, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February,” said American writer and humorist Mark Twain.
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet,” said General James Mattis, former US secretary of defense.
In terms of the stock market, “A vaccine is more important than the stimulus,” said David Kostin, chief equity strategist at Goldman Sachs.
“The Fed only knows two speeds; too fast, and too slow,” said Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman to me over lunch one day.
“It’s not always the troops that storm the beaches who are the right ones to set up the government,” said Steve Vassallo from Foundation Capital about the resignation of founder Travis Kalanick from Uber.
“The U.S. hasn’t had economic leadership this weak in key positions since World War II, and there is now next to no scope for international cooperation. The world economy hasn’t been this brittle during my 40-year career,” said Dr. Larry Summers, former director of the national economic council.
