Cause and effect Quote by James Buchan

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial…

— James Buchan

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about…

— George Soros

The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far in Wall…

— Benjamin Graham

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies…

— Christina Romer

Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.

— Rick Santelli

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.

— Jim Rogers

If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what`s going to…

— Benjamin Graham

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

— George Soros

The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of…

— Michael Lewis

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

— Peter Mandelson

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming…

— George Will