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. “
June 20, 2011
It was a warm summer day in downtown Boston in the 1960s. I had the top down on my burgundy 1966 Lincoln Continental convertible and sat in traffic listening to closing stock prices. The car, complete with black leather seats and suicide doors, was similar to the one in which Jack Kennedy had been shot three years earlier. As the stock...