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Even Fans Of Actively Managed Funds Often Concede That Most Other Investors Would Be Better Off In Index Funds. But Buoyed By Abundant Self-confidence, These Folks Aren't About To Give Up On Actively Managed Funds Themselves. A Tad Delusional? I Think So. Picking The Best-performing Funds Is 'like Trying To Predict The Dice Before You Roll Them Down The Craps Table,' Says An Investment Adviser In Boca Raton, Fl. 'i Can't Do It. The Public Can't Do It.'

Economists Are Said To Disagree Too Much But In Ways That Are Too Much Alike: If Eight Sleep In The Same Bed, You Can Be Sure That, Like Eskimos, When They Turn Over, They'll All Turn Over Together.

Politicians Like To Tell People What They Want To Hear - And What They Want To Hear Is What Won't Happen.

First, Those Who Disagree With Market Efficiency Simply Assert That It Stands To Common Sense That Greater Effort To Get Facts And Greater Acumen In Analyzing Those Facts Will Pay Off In Better Performance Somehow Measured. (by This Logic, Cure For Cancer Must Have Been Found By 1955).

What Counts Is Results, And There Can Be No Doubt That The Soviet Planning System Has Been A Powerful Engine For Economic Growth...the Soviet Model Has Surely Demonstrated That A Command Economy Is Capable Of Mobilizing Resources For Rapid Growth.