“Funny how so many rookies out there still judge condition of the US economy on the rigged "stock market". I frankly find it hilarious.”

“The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.”

“A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.”

“The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.”

“I find it hilarious that if we lie to the government, it's a crime. But if they lie to us its politics”

“...and with this reminder other things came to her -- how strange it was that, with all allowance for their merit, it should befall some people to be so inordinantly valued, quoted, as they said in the stock-market, so high, and how still stranger, perhaps, that there should be cases in which, for some reason, one didn't mind the so frequently marked absence in them of the purpose really to represent their price. ”