I played clarinet next to Stan Getz for years, and he became convinced that I was going to become an economist,? said Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
?Those near 10% annualized yields in stocks and bonds are a thing of the past,? said Bill Gross, the managing direct and co-chief investment officer of the Newport Beach, CA based bond giant, PIMCO.
?I grew up trying to separate the emotion of the market from what reality is. Eventually, emotion is just a big sine wave that fluctuates around reality. Eventually, it will catch up,? said Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs.
?If you can?t catch the most extraordinary event in our lifetimes, what do we really know? How in the world did I miss it?? said Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
?The consumers have voted with their eyeballs,? said Mark Mahaney, the Internet analyst at RBC Capital, about Google?s breakout through $1,000 a share.
If you can get a dividend higher than the yield on ten-year debt, it?s an opportunity we haven?t seen in our lifetime. On a five-year horizon, investing in large multinationals with high dividends will have a large payday,? said Lawrence Fink, CEO of BlackRock.
?Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm,? said the late President John F. Kennedy.
?The process for the investor to move out the risk curve is not complete,? said Leon Cooperman, the legendary hedge fund manager at Omega Advisors, who is projecting modestly positive returns for stocks in 2014.
?They closed the circus, but they?re still paying the clowns. What?s going on in Washington is disgraceful,? said Leon Cooperman, the legendary hedge fund manager at Omega Advisors.
?When your opponent is in trouble and drowning politically, you throw them a fire hose. We threw them a lifeboat and a machine gun. On a tactical basis this is an incredibly stupid move,? said Republican strategist, Mike Murphy.
