You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date.

Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The human mind played tricks on itself when it relied exclusively on what it saw. There was a lot you couldn't see when you watched a game

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.