Mark Steyn:

General Motors now has a market valuation about a third of Bed, Bath And Beyond.

From 2005, Rattle:

The valuation of porn must remain steady, or the new economy created by the Internet breaks down.

Have our shiny new SIVs broken down?

You won't buy our shitty cars.

So we'll be taking your money anyway.

Martin Wolf knows a steal when he sees one:

There are, nevertheless, formidable pressures for further falls in valuations, as leveraged players continue to be forced to offload assets at bargain prices.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb prefers to steer clear:

Many hedge fund managers ... are just picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. And sometimes the steamroller accelerates.

Rattle would like to be quite clear:

I think Decius and I should start practice claiming that MemeStreams is worth four billion while keeping a straight face.

For Paul McCulley, practice makes perfect -- but you must wait your turn:

When we all try to do it at the same time, we actually do less of it.

One step forward, and two steps back:

Valuation decisions are ubiquitous in human interaction and thought itself. Incorporating information valuation into a computational layer will be as significant a step forward as our current communication and information retrieval layers.

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