“[I]f we win on November 6, there will be a great deal of optimism about the future of this country. We’ll see capital come back, and we’ll see — without actually doing anything — we’ll actually get a boost in the economy.”

— Mitt Romney at a meeting with donors in Boca Raton.  Optimism is nice but this reminds me of what Yale Economics Professor Irving Fisher, said in 1929.

“Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”