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Christmas Story lampoons holiday greed but delights in it too--there's no platitudinous ending about how Christmas isn't really about presents. That's perfect for a society of people who tell pollsters that Christmas has become too commercial yet spend north of a grand on it on average. Just as voters hate Congress yet re-elect their Congressmen, so do we think that everyone else's Christmas is corrupt while our own is full of meaning...
...pervasive among neophyte Chinese investors - that what happens to the U.S. economy doesn't matter to China, that the government in Beijing will always prop up the market - get exploded. The giddiness of the bubble is starting to be replaced by pervasive gloom. Fear is getting the better of greed. "This is reality," says Tian Junxiao, a 52-year-old investor who has been day trading for a living for six years. "Younger people are learning that the market can go up as well as down. It's a hard lesson, but it's a necessary...
...sound decision-making is recognizing the fundamental pulls of fear and greed that underlie markets and then make sound decisions in the face of all this uncertainty,” he said...
...sound decision-making is the recognizing the fundamental pulls of fear and greed that underlie markets and then make sound decisions in the face of all this uncertainty,” he said...
...those people were all about greed. And where is it written that thou art entitled to flip a profit? Not anywhere I know of. So I'm not very sympathetic. And the fact that all of these investors allowed their greed to overcome their fear--that's the way the world works...