Ron Chernow

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#away #dubious #far #far away #gotten

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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