The market is volatile. Crashes, pullbacks and corrections are all absolutely normal. None of them are the end of the world, and none are even the end of the market's relentless rise. They are all, each and every one, expected parts of the process.

- from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins

We can no longer trust what the markets tell us. That's because those who control them do not trust the markets themselves; Yellen and the rest have come to think their academic hand is more powerful than Adam Smith's invisible one. The result has been the slow demise of market utility that, in turn, presages the slow demise of the real economy.

- from The Death of Money book by James Rickards