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That's not to say that I think the economic news will improve or that markets are poised for a sustained surge. Media pundits, economists and market seers vastly overestimate their ability to predict such things. What I do know is that smart investors yearn for this kind of turbulence. As Warren Buffett once put it: "The true investor welcomes volatility" because it often produces "irrationally low prices" for "solid businesses...
...Some investors are so keenly aware of this tendency to get spooked by market mayhem that they view their own fear as a sign that things are about to turn around and that it's time to buy. Jeff Vinik, a legendary investor in the U.S., once told me: "I'm scared at almost every [market] low. And I try to remember, when I'm really scared, that we're getting real close to a good low." Zweig cites another renowned investor, Brian Posner, who quips: "If it makes me feel like I want to throw...
...TIME Europe editor William Green, an avid investor in out-of-favor stocks, has money with Third Avenue, but not in its real estate fund
What Russia does have is money. Many in the oligarch class have achieved the kind of stability and self-assurance required to relinquish their much-guarded privacy and enter this very public sphere as investors and producers. Entering the offices of Igor Desyatnikov in central Moscow, visitors are obliged to pass through a metal detector, then withstand the menacing stares of several bodyguards. Desyatnikov himself sits behind a large walnut-topped desk, a colonel's sheepskin hat resting on a far corner. Desyatnikov made his fortune in the sale of a private bank in 2004, and he heads an investor...
Keynes actually remarked on this back in 1936. "It is the long-term investor, he who most promotes the public interest, who will in practice come in for most criticism, wherever investment funds are managed by committees or boards or banks," he wrote. "For it is in the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of average opinion...