Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Fortune Tellers
Cicero, On Divination 2.24.51-52 (tr. W.A. Falconer):
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But indeed, that was quite a clever remark which Cato made many years ago: "I wonder," said he, "that a soothsayer doesn't laugh when he sees another soothsayer." For how many things predicted by them really come true?Some books by the modern equivalents of ancient soothsayers:
vetus autem illud Catonis admodum scitum est, qui mirari se aiebat quod non rideret haruspex haruspicem cum vidisset. quota enim quaeque res evenit praedicta ab istis?
- Robert Zuccaro, Dow 30,000 by 2008! Why It's Different This Time (Palisade Literary Press, 2001)
- James K. Glassman and Kevin Hassett, Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market (Times Business, 1999)
- David Elias, Dow 40,000: Strategies for Profiting from the Greatest Bull Market in History (McGraw-Hill, 1999)
- Charles W. Kadlec, Dow 100,000: Fact or Fiction (New York Institute of Finance, 1999)
