Saturday, August 18, 2007

Evading Reality - 6

From the Gretchen Morgenson article cited before

“They have their standard deviations, correlations, ‘stable value’ and ‘real return’ funds and nothing for what the normal human being would call risk at all,” said Frederick E. Rowe Jr., a money manager at Greenbrier Partners in Dallas. “They’ve taken the word ‘risk’ and hijacked it. The concept of risk — the permanent loss of capital — vanished in the minds of the people who speak the new language.”

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Off topic but I am puzzled how is it 10.21 AM Saturday on your blog when it isn't yet 10.21 AM Saturday in time zone GMT +5.30 hrs (IST).

Arun said...

Blogger.com lets one set a date and time for the posting. I mistyped.