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When The Weather Changes And Hurricanes Hit, Nobody Believes That The Laws Of Physics Have Changed. Similarly, I Don't Believe That When The Stock Market Goes Into Terrible Gyrations Its Rules Have Changed. It's The Same Stock Market With The Same Mechanisms And The Same People.
-Benoit Mandelbrot
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When The Weather Changes And

Benoit Mandelbrot
When The Weather Changes And Hurricanes Hit, Nobody Believes That The Laws Of Physics Have Changed. Similarly, I Don't Believe That When The Stock Market Goes Into Terrible Gyrations Its Rules Have Changed. It's The Same Stock Market With The Same Mechanisms And The Same People.
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