The trouble with all this media noise is that it tends to affect prices negatively in the short run, while stocks are uncertain (that is to say, volatile) over the long run, too.

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Last Spring, I met with the Dean of a Top 10 MBA program who told me all this noise about entrepreneurship was just that: noise.

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