When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed.

Image, When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don’t believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

—Benoit Mandelbrot

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