- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.
- Best
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The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.
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As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
- Bull Market
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As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
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Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.
- Fear
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You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.
- American Public
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The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.
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In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.
- Important
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The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.
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After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.
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In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.
- Farms
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When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
- Age
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The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
- Appreciate
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.
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In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.
- Brokerage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.
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