All Ron Chernow Quotes
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.
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As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
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The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.
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One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.
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Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.
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Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.
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The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
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After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.
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Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.
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Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.
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If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.
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The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
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Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.
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I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
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