irrational
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Recognizing this, Masson wrote in 1941, in “Painting is a Wager”: “Towards 1930, five years after the foundation of surrealism, a formidable disaster appeared in its midst: the demagogy of the irrational.”
But what we do know is that, due to the Dec. 31 tax deadline, they are currently subject to an irrational amount of selling.
From MarketWatch
Edwards also quotes from the journalist Edward Chancellor who remarks that the “irrational exuberance that normally accompanies a mania is absent” in gold.
From MarketWatch
Quoting John Maynard Keynes, my father used to say about shorting a bubble, “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
From Barron's
Quoting John Maynard Keynes, my father used to say about shorting a bubble, “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
From Barron's
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