Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In the past, scholars who were not financially independent were directly funded by Maecenas ""rich patrons. Today they are funded by bureaucrats.

Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency exceeds what you wish to show your neighbor.

The left holds that because markets are stupid models should be smart; the right believes that because models are stupid markets should be smart. Alas, it never hit both sides that both markets and models are very stupid.