"And in unraveling the complex we should always be careful not to overlook the obvious." John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society. - John Kenneth Galbraith

When a mood of excitement pervades a market or surrounds an investment prospect, when there is a claim of unique opportunity based on special foresight, all sensible people should circle the wagons; it is the time for caution.

The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.