So long as predictions remain popular, and are so numerous as they are today – and so long as they receive notoriety through repetition in the press and on the radio – contrary opinions will increase in importance as thinking aids. “
April 19, 2011
“No! I can’t talk to you now. Call me another time,” bellowed the man on the other end of my phone. Despite the abruptness, the voice had sounded cultured … even upper class. But then why wouldn’t it? As a young broker, I had cold-called the Chief of Psychiatric Services of Harvard University. It was 1966 and my firm,...