The Fear Index

he felt it was poisoning him inch by inch, just like Marie Curie had been killed by radiation.

Quarry’s audience was listening intently. (“The two most interesting things in the world,” Quarry once remarked: “other people’s sex lives and your own money.”)

liquidity replenishment points, or LRPs. In her subsequent testimony to Congress, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission explained that LRPs are best thought of as a “speed bump” and are intended to dampen volatility in a given stock by temporarily converting from an automated market to a manual auction market when a price move

ugly you could make yourself by crying, like scrawling over a drawing. After a while she put her hand into her jacket pocket to try to find a tissue, and felt instead the sharp edges of a business card.

Once a regulator, always a regulator: it was like a foreign accent—you could never quite hide where you came from.

THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL HAVE NO WORKERS THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL HAVE NO MANAGERS THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE A DIGITAL ENTITY THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE ALIVE

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“Fear is historically the strongest emotion in economics. Remember FDR in the Great Depression? It’s the most famous quote in financial history: ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?