Ron Chernow | "Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day."

"Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day."

Ron Chernow, American Author

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"Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day."

"Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day."

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Personal Development

"After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation."

People

"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

"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."

Fear

"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."

People

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

Responsibility

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

Finance

"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."

Creativity

"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."

Sex

"When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise."

Market

"I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification."

Finance

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"Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day."

Author Name

Personal Development

More

"After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation."

People

"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

"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."

Fear

"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."

People

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

Responsibility

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

Finance

"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."

Creativity

"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."

Sex

"When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise."

Market

"I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification."

Finance