Quote of the Day: Herb (Not Ben) Stein

By Paul Kedrosky · Thursday, September 25, 2008 ·

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

      -- Herb Stein, from sometime in the 1980s

The above remains one of my all-time favorite quotes about financial markets, and it feels more true and important today than ever as the age of absurdly cheap credit ends.