Wonderfully snide! Unlike the idiots on cable business channels with their mindless market-pumping, FTAlphaville are all for mocking financial folly. Of which there's always quite a lot. But a down market exposes what's been hidden during a boom, so it inspires more entertaining commentary.
As Warren Buffett said, “It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.”
Yesterday the ocean receded a bit.
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