Economics revisited

 "Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquility which others give.  A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others." - Marcus Aurelius

Into the deep end of the pool

 "Remember two things:

1. That everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period.

2. That the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing.  

The present is all that you can give up, since that is all that you have.  And what you do not have, you cannot lose." - Marcus Aurelius

Gloomy outlook for the economy

 "There is no genius without a touch of madness." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Eyes on the German Economy

 "A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying "You are mad; you are not like us." - Saint Anthony the Great

Pondering Price vs. Value

 "Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them." - Marcus Aurelius

Navigating through a dark time

James Stockdale, on his 7 years as a POW of North Vietnam, in the "Hanoi Hilton".

Q: "Who didn't make it out?"

A: "Oh, that's easy.  The optimists"

Q: "The optimists?  I don't understand."

 A: "The optimists.  Oh, they were the ones who said, "We're going to be out by Christmas."  And Christmas would come and Christmas would go.  Then they'd say "We're going to be out by Easter." And Easter would come and Easter would go.  And then Thanksgiving and then it would be Christmas again.  And they died of a broken heart"