"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." — Bertrand Russell I once met a man in his 60's, a mechanic by trade, who netted $3 million on the sale of his Harley dealership.  He dismissed any investment discussion with, "I have an account at [...]

If politicians raised a healing hand and commanded the winds of Hurricane Ike away from the Galveston shores, we would… well, obviously re-elect them, because now we accept nothing less in every financial storm. George Soros is famous for making a billion dollars by shorting the British pound.  What he really did was bet against [...]