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In Their Leaders, Advisers, And Experts, People Much Prefer Overconfidence, Total Certainty, To Any Kind Of Doubt.

People Dislike Uncertainty So Much That They Will Impose An Order On It Even When It Doesn't Exist.

I'd Stumbled Into A Job At Salomon Brothers In 1985, And Stumbled Out, Richer, In 1988, And Even Though I Wrote A Book About The Experience, The Whole Thing Still Strikes Me Me As Totally Preposterous-which Is One Reason The Money Was So Easy To Walk Away From.

People Were Paid Lots Of Money To Make Stupid Decisions, People In Big Banks, And When People Are Paid To Be Stupid They'll Be Stupid. The Question Was, Did They Know They Were Being Stupid Or Were They Just Stupid? I Think You Need To Take It On A Case By Case Basis. There Was Some Sinister Activity, But I Think By And By It Was People Being Incentivised To Do The Wrong Thing.

There's No Point In Arguing With Partisan Supporters. Their Views Are Their Identity. Nothing You Can Tell The Most Phlegmatic Follower.