Alex Berenson Quotes

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Fundamentals make the market.

Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

The markets do numbers, not nuance.

Listen to market strategists, and a word that comes up a lot these days is 'volatility.'

I never try to predict the market.

In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

Thanks, Mr. President. Nobody has complimented the stock exchange for a long while.

If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour.

Economists often get the market wrong.