Quoted: Compensation structures that reward managers annually for profits, but do not claw these rewards back when losses materialise, encourage the creation of fake alpha. Significant portions of compensation should be held in escrow to be paid only long after the activities that generated that compensation occur.

Quoted: To this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grownups remains a mystery to me.

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Quoted: Going forward, the divergence from fundamentals has created an extraordinary
opportunity for those investors who are able to withstand the current volatility.

Recommended by a friend.

Quoted: The crash has been blamed on cheap money, Asian savings and greedy bankers. For many people, deregulation is the prime suspect

The carnage continues. I do think it's a good time to start looking for smart buys (e.g. market cap near book value).

Quoted: A late-day decline once again pushed the markets down sharply, with the Dow falling more than 500 points.

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Campbell Soup has been performing well while the rest of the market has tanked.

Wow, haven't heard of anything like this before.

Quoted: The exchange raised Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people )'s closing price to $400.52 - a 5 percent gain for the day - and canceled all trades below that amount and above $425.29 between 3:57 p.m. and 4:02 p.m. EDT.