Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Peter L. Bernstein

Born: January 22, 1919
Died: June 5, 2009 (aged 90)
Bio: Peter Lewyn Bernstein was an American financial historian, economist and educator whose development and refinement of the efficient-market hypothesis made him one of the country's best known authorities in popularizing and presenting investment economics to the general public.
Known for:
- Capital Ideas Evolving (2007)
- A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold (1965)