They aren't yet comfortable shorting these speculative stocks because, as they quote John Maynard Keynes: "The market can be irrational a lot longer than you can be solvent, " and they're not ready to step in front of this locomotive.
Mr. DEUTSCH: Just as we had irrational exuberance a couple of years ago in terms of capital flowing into the markets, I think you have irrational depression now where investors have a, you know, very pessimistic view, whether that's founded or unfounded, until there is some trigger mechanism to turn the tide.
Columnist Timothy Egan is certainly irrational about a fast-growing genetically engineered salmon, which will likely be approved for marketing later this year.
Whether it happens this week or not remains to be seen, but the long term story of Apple has not changed and investors are beginning to see how irrational of a correction it just experienced.
Irrational Games has a poll asking fans which reversible cover for BioShock Infinite they like best.
Russian leaders cannot bring themselves to believe repeated Western assurances that plans to defend Europe against nuclear missiles are aimed solely at irrational states with a handful of weapons (diplomat-speak for Iran), and are not meant to blunt the effectiveness of Russia's array of nuclear weapons.
Reflecting such optimism (as well as a certain measure of irrational exuberance), China's Shanghai Composite Index holds a 140% gain for the past 52 weeks.
Whether that human economic behavior is rational or irrational may ultimately be a matter of perspective.
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"For most women, guns are so irrational, " says a Dole adviser.
Irrational also gave reporters a preview session with the game as a way of assuaging fears that all these delays keep coming because the game is a mess.
Rolling Jubilee appears to be working on the premise that a creditor acting in an economically irrational way and wrapping forgiveness letters up in a bow establishes donative intent.
ICC, a policy based on narrow ideology and irrational fear, is softened and shifted towards a sensible engagement with the court for the benefit of all.
Getting Elizabeth just right was a massive undertaking for Irrational Games and Levine, who said the game's release date was pushed back a year solely to perfect her.
If the above average effect holds up for groups, it might explain a lot of irrational behavior.
We are suffering through another irrational exuberance, based on a tsunami of liquidity.
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But some saw it as an ominous sign, a scent of irrational exuberance and the prospect of falling prices in 2012.
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When the economy is buoyed by too much borrowing, when those bills come due to every American household and to every American company that has been making a profit on irrational spending based on irrational lending, which, you know, which happen all over the place over the last several years, it's going to hurt people.
After a long development cycle and a marketing blitz, Irrational Games will have ambitious sales targets.
It is, despite all of our irrational expectations, tracking along like a traditional tech boom market.
Greed in the boardroom typically manifests as an irrational optimism about the value of a program.
Whether or not this is a brief bout of irrational exuberance, stock prices overcame several potential obstacles.
As in law firms, what looks like irrational behaviour may in fact be a community norm which efficiently discourages free-riding.
Few Americans harbor irrational fears about being killed by a lightning bolt.
Rakesh Khurana: " Searching for a Corporate Saviour: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs", Princeton University Press, 2002.
Fisher believes irrational fears often grab hold early in a big bull market.
"Fans should realise that the club is responsible for all of their extreme or irrational actions, " Levski said in a statement.
Belief in infinite growth on a finite planet was always irrational, but it is the nature of denial to ignore hard evidence.
"GM's confidence is simply irrational, " says Joseph Romm, a former Department of Energy official in the Clinton Administration and author of the book The Hype About Hydrogen.
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