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“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent,” is a financial industry shibboleth most investors have learned through a great deal of pain.

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Exxon Mobil has taken issue with those reporting rules too: Chief Executive Darren Woods has described the rules in Europe—known as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive—as “an irrational piece of policy.”

At the same time, the bears argue that it’s a sign of potentially irrational exuberance when margin debt increases for many months in a row.

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But all the charts, graphs and Monte Carlo simulations won’t do much good if an individual is fundamentally irrational about money.

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Once a Fico fan, Cintula changed his mind when, as he put it, the prime minister, "drunk with power, started to bend the truth", making "irrational decisions that damage this country".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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