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"Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day."
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"Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day."
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"I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives."
"I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled."
"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."
"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."
"Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks."
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