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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Usually I say: People do what they think is in their best interest.
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This is likely to be the case. The issue, then, is calculating the difference between what they think and what they know.
The bottom line: people are seldom as rational as they think they are. The market is driven in large part by emotions. Even if you take household money matters, emotions tend to play a larger role than people would like to accept.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 07-21-2010 at 06:51 PM..
Reason: typo
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