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"[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

-- 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."