Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Homer, The Iliad
Buy Happy Sell Sad was started over 4 years ago in recognition of the emotional nature of free markets. My goal, although lofty, was to help bring the humanity back to economics, investing and finance. While I have always strived to take a lighthearted approach to markets, satirizing our fragile inclinations to inflate expectations and behave irrationally, the recent return of market volatility and subsequent rush of optimistic sentiment has made the need for emotional investing even more salient.
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