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Dead Cat Bounce: A temporary recovery from a prolonged decline or bear market, followed by the continuation of the downtrend. A dead cat bounce is a small, short-lived recovery in the price of a declining security, such as a stock.

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As recently as 1970, it could take up to 24 hours just to receive the results of one regression from a central computer lab

http://onlinestatbook.com/2/regression/intro.html

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it pays to pay attention

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the magic word investors love to hear: “non-correlated asset"

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/18103/bitcoiners-prepare-for-these-words-i-should-have-listened/

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Whatever it takes.

Mario Draghi, 2012

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“There is a tension and you definitely see the libertarian crypto-anarchist roots bang heads with the venture capital that’s coming in right now.”

http://reason.com/archives/2013/05/20/the-top-3-things-i-learned-at-the-bitcoi

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"Bitcoin had always been three steps forward, two steps back since I’ve been involved, " "I happen to enjoy roller coasters. It will be interesting to see how many people enjoy roller coasters, and what happens when the roller coaster ride stops." - Gavin Andresen

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4348064/why-wont-bitcoin-die

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The budget is the state stripped of ideological pretensions.

- Alex. J. Pollock

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"Some banks are more predatory than others, but the prevailing culture remains short-termist. “As long as you can be out of the door in five minutes,” he says, “your horizon is five minutes."

Joris Luyendjik via The Guardian 

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"A severe depression like that of 1920-1921 is outside the range of probability" The Harvard Economic Society, 16 November 1929

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"Labor is cheap. We have lots of resources, particularly human resources."

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Tech stock soars 25,000%. Trading halted

http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/10/investing/cynk-stock-surge/

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Securitizing tulips.

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The late Fischer Black, a pioneering theoretician of modern finance who moved from M.I.T. to Wall Street, said "Markets look a lot less efficient from the banks of the Hudson than from the banks of the Charles." 

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CFO Magazine awarded Sullivan its CFO Excellence award in 1998; Fortune listed Ebbers as one of its "People to Watch 2001."

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1848 - John Marshall discovers gold flakes while building a sawmill near Sacramento, California. The greatest gold rush of all time follows as 40,000 diggers flock to California from around the world.

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On the 12th September 1919 at 11.00am the first Gold Fixing took place.