irrationality

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Options remain the best way to monetize investor irrationality and emotional dysregulation.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

America's top banker Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of US bank JP Morgan, said he was worried, and Google boss Sundar Pichai told the BBC there was "irrationality" in the current AI boom.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

At least one fellow, however, thought the addition represented a surrender to the forces of superstition and irrationality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

It’s simply a matter of taking advantage of structural market irrationality.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 26, 2025

Truly effective nuclear bluffing, however, includes occasional postures of irrationality, a distancing from the horrors of nuclear war.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan