Never Catch a Falling Dump

—So this old law of supply and decline with all these baskets happens with their stock too so what’s the difference? Like everybody’s buying it and and selling it which they all want to get rid of it at once so like how does anybody know how much it’s worth? Like we saw all these guys tearing up all this paper all over the floor which nobody knew what they were doing, so like now we buy this stock of Diamond Cable with our money so what if there’s all this here cable nobody wants like nobody that didn’t buy all those baskets so it just ends up all these guys are running around tearing up paper all over the floor like where does that leave us?

— William Gaddis, JR (1975)