After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.