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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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"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."

"Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to."

"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify."

"You don't teach information in a writing workshop."

"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."

"Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored."

"Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process."

"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."

"It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved."

"As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years."
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"After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks."

"Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance."

"In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms."

"The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification."

"I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments."

"That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole."
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