When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.
If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.
As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.
I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.
Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.
The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
In history, the evidence is overwhelming: Stock market bottoms happen, and then stocks jolt upwards while the economy keeps getting worse - sometimes by a lot and for a long time.
Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country...
Chinese brands will face many obstacles when marketing to Western consumers. Beyond the associations with poor quality and unsound environmental practices, they generally do not have the marketing capabilities or budgets to build powerful global bran...
In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.
The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.
The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
