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    2000: As bull markets are built up[,] the large and quick profits shown by common stocks as a whole are sufficient to dull the publics critical faculty, just as they sharpen its acquisitive instinct.

    –Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor (New York: HarperBusiness, 2003), p. 142.
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Jason is the author of “Your Money and Your Brain,” on the neuroscience of investing, and the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor,” the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the best book about investing ever written.”

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1999: Less than a year after breaking the 9,000 mark, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 10,000 for the first time, as it finishes the day at 10006.78.

1989: Michael Milken is indicted on 98 felony charges of violating Federal securities laws as head of the junk-bond desk at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Prosecutors disclose that he earned $550 million in compensation in 1986 — but almost nothing else they fling at Milken sticks.

Jesse Kornbluth, Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken (William Morrow & Co., New York, 1992), p. 300.

1918: Sam Moore Walton, future founder of Wal-Mart, is born in Kingfisher, Okla.