February 2014

Frank Boland
February 07, 2014

It was the end of a day as I sat in a local restaurant kvetching to a friend.  Kvetching is Yiddish for complaining.  I really love Yiddish because it often captures not only a word but the sound of feeling in the word.  It’s spoken emotion.  “It’s been a five-year secular bull market,” I kvetched.   “So what’s the problem?” he asked.  “...

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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. “

– Humphrey Neil