Burton Malkiel Quotes

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

Burton Malkiel

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If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- High
- Security
- Numbers
Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

Yair Lapid
- Security
- Down
- Walk
The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

Oliver E. Williamson
- Trade
- Contract
- Lens
We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

Igor Ivanov
- Believe
- Security
- Legal
A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.

Zbigniew Brzezinski
What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.

Pat Robertson
- Victory
- Security
- Tax