In the first essay in this series, we discussed Benjamin Graham’s view of the market as a voting machine in the short run and a weighing machine in the long run. Market prices can be very volatile in the short- term depending on sentiment and popularity (votes) and price extremes can be driven by sentiment and manias. These short-term price movements…
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