?To get rich is glorious!? said Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese general who launched the country?s modern economy in the seventies.
?There are just not enough human buyers in the market,? lamented Eddie Perkin, chief investment officer at Eaton Vance.
?If someone called me tomorrow and said that ten year US Treasury bonds were at 0.75%, I would not be surprised,? said Larry Fink, the founder of BlackRock, the world?s largest asset manager.
?This is an epic bond bubble that we may have just seen the end of, not only here, but in Europe too,? said Peter Boockvar, an analyst at the Lindsey Group.
?Sure, things are crazy now, but they can remain crazy for a little bit longer,? said a hedge fund trader friend of mine.
?They are energetic. They are very smart. But a lot of them?they are paper pushers. They make a fortune. They pay no tax. It?s ridiculous, OK?? said presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
?The market is like a bathtub. Money is sloshing from one sector to another, but it is not leaving,? said strategist Louis Navellier, of Navellier Associates.
?Every geopolitical crisis in the world is squarely pointed at the heart of Europe right now, be it terrorism, the collapse of Europe, or the currency crisis, and that means it?s focused on Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany,? said my friend, Ian Bremmer, of the political consulting firm, Eurasia Group.
?You always sound smarter when you?re a bear than when you?re a bull,? said Adam Parker of Morgan Stanley.
?We are going to be working off backlogs of construction, mining, oil, and gas for years,? said my friend, famed short seller Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates.