June 2014

Frank Boland
June 11, 2014

It’s 9:30 in the morning at the New York Stock Exchange.   A man presses a button that rings a bell and opens the exchange for business.   Behind him is a giant billboard with 500 individual lights.  Each light represents one of the 500 stocks in the S&P Index.  On a typical day 485 bulbs may flash green signifying stocks that are...

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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