The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[A]t any point in time, the richest traders are often the worst traders. This I will call the cross-sectional problem: At a given time... the most successful traders are likely to be those fit for the latest cycle.

If you do not take risks for your ideas you are nothing. Nothing.

Ireland, Czeck Rep., Slovakia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Cyprus... People get along better as neighbors than as roommates. Time for Syrians to understand the large Nation-State with "grandeur" & prestige has failed them, destroyed minorities. Small is beautiful.