Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
What's good for the financial industry probably isn't good for you.
I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.
I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.
Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how, in many ways, they are far more important to the welfare of our society than many of the more sensational criminal cases that one hears about.
Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.
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