#trading

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#borders #bse #closed #cow #found

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#begins #ceases #clothing #constitute #fruits

Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.' Easier said than done for the vast majority of stock traders. ... On every stock trade there is someone who wants to sell and someone who wants to buy, at least at a particular price. ...the person who is selling thinks that she is getting out just in time while the person buying thinks that he is about to make good money. ... The truth is that the market doesn't really reflect some magical perfect valuation of a stock under the efficient market hypothesis. It reflects the mass consensus of how actual individual investors value the stock. It is the sum total of everyone's hopes and fears... ↗

— M.E. Thomas

#efficient-market-hypothesis #shares #sociopath #sociopathy #stock-market

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#aspect #away #country #decides #every

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance. ↗

— John W. Snow

#continuing #conversation #growth #improved #our