1
What Chaos Looks Like
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
—Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894
Groucho Asks a Question
In 1929, Groucho Marx was riding high. He and his brothers Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo had made the transition from vaudeville to Broadway to Hollywood. They had just completed their first talking picture, The Cocoanuts, based on their Broadway musical comedy from 1925. And they were starring on Broadway in a new musical comedy, Animal Crackers. (It would be filmed the following ...
Get Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors and How You Can Bring Common Sense to Your Portfolio now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
