Those Who Know Don't Tell

A Vast Industry Of Stockbrokers, Financial Planners, And Investment Advisers Skims A Fortune For Themselves Off The Top In Exchange For Passing Their Clients' Money On To People Who, As A Whole, Cannot Possibly Outperform The Market.

As Idiotic As Optimism Can Sometimes Seem, It Has A Weird Habit Of Paying Off.

Each Firm Held Its Rope; One By One, They Realized That No Matter How Strongly They Pulled, The Balloon Would Eventually Lift Them Off Their Feet.

Everywhere You Turn You See Americans Sacrifice Their Long-term Interests For A Short-term Reward.

Everything, In Retrospect, Is Obvious. But If Everything Were Obvious, Authors Of Histories Of Financial Folly Would Be Rich . . .