As Idiotic As Optimism Can Sometimes Seem,

If You Had To Point To One Thing That Made It Less Likely That The Red Sox Would Win The World Series, I Would Say It Was Those People That Go To Fenway Park To Watch The Games. And Then The Media Around It.

Don't Be Deceived By Life's Outcomes. Life's Outcomes, While Not Entirely Random, Have A Huge Amount Of Luck Baked Into Them.

The Cdo Was, In Effect, A Credit Laundering Service For The Residents Of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street It Was A Machine That Turned Lead Into Gold.

People Were Paid Lots Of Money To Make Stupid Decisions, People In Big Banks, And When People Are Paid To Be Stupid They'll Be Stupid. The Question Was, Did They Know They Were Being Stupid Or Were They Just Stupid? I Think You Need To Take It On A Case By Case Basis. There Was Some Sinister Activity, But I Think By And By It Was People Being Incentivised To Do The Wrong Thing.

The Pleasure Of Rooting For Goliath Is That You Can Expect To Win. The Pleasure Of Rooting For David Is That, While You Don’t Know What To Expect, You Stand At Least A Chance Of Being Inspired.