I find it funny that people who didn’t think there was any inflation in the pipeline are now talking about stagflation.
BARRY RITHOLTZI find it funny that people who didn’t think there was any inflation in the pipeline are now talking about stagflation.
More Barry Ritholtz Quotes
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Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.
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Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don’t go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.
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Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up seven is still a function of random luck.
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History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
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The Boskin Commission… was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can’t afford it.
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It is important for investors to understand what they do and don’t know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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And any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
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This is nothing like the 1970’s, which was a pretty dismal period and not just because of polyester and disco.
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Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery.
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Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing…
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Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?’
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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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