In this week's Barron's, Michael Santoli comes up with this gem of a sentence (emphasis mine):
The stock market is essentially an argument over the future, staged over six-and-a-half hours each weekday, among people who can't even agree what's most important to be arguing about at any given moment
thereby showing his total grasp on the behavioral aspect of the market. But then he overreaches himself with this paragraph:
The more interesting question isn't whether things in this post-crisis, heavily medicated financial system are different - plenty of things are, from government action to debt levels to consumer psychology - but whether this "differentness" is already built into the markets.
As long as I am quoting nicely-turned sentences I would be remiss if I didn't mention this one by Alan Abelson:
He was a meticulous reporter of the highest integrity, a prolific writer, an unflappable, low-key interviewer, no matter how grouchy and intimidating the subject, an astute judge of markets and possessed of an extraordinary ability to separate fact from hyperbole, truth from spin.
And no, he's not talking about himself, this is part of a eulogy to Harlan Byrne, a former colleague of his who passed away recently.
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