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" In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information. "

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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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" 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. "

" The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification. "

" A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. "

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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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" 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. "

" I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments. "

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" What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers. "

" 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. "

" The American public historically was really not part of the stock market. "

" Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. "

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