October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 10m
English
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
—E. Satie
The stock market goes up 150 points, and the analysts are quick to tell us that “low inflation and strong consumer confidence” are driving the market up. The next day, the market drops 150 points, and those same analysts tell us the reason is “uncertainty in the Middle East and increasing fears that the consumer will cut back spending because of heavy debt loads.”
Isn’t it amazing that these analysts never seem to be lost for an explanation of why the market did what it did? Interestingly, they never seem to show this insight when it comes to accurately predicting what the market might ...