When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the ga… - Robert Haugen

The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.

The cheaper the stock, the better the outlook for future returns.

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