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"irrational" Definitions
  1. not based on, or not using, clear logical thought
"irrational" Synonyms
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Irrational escalation is when people make irrational decisions based on past rational decisions.
And while we are irrational pretty often, we're less often irrational than most people.
Just like there's a name for the irrational fear of balloons, or an irrational fear of chins, there's a name for the irrational fear of washing or bathing: ablutophobia.
States are rarely irrational for the simple reason that irrational states can't survive for long.
It keeps even the most irrational ideas grounded, and enables us to turn loose and push boundaries and embrace the irrational and complex.
Irrational exuberance (HTC Vive): A surreal space odyssey at the end of the world,Irrational Exuberance takes you on a journey through a stunning, otherworldly landscape.
But the history of psychedelics has been marked by periods of both irrational exuberance and equally irrational stigmatization, so a few cautionary notes are in order.
It seems that after about nine months of irrational exuberance followed by roughly six months of equally as irrational disconsolation, venture investors have gotten their groove back.
But for nearly everyone else, following their approach is "completely irrational, and because it's irrational there's no real impetus to stop until one of the big boys stops," he said.
" He expected their responses to be "irrational, the result
Contributing Opinion Writer HAMBURG, Germany — Are the Germans irrational?
He wrote a book called Predictably Irrational, in how we respond in very irrational ways to the market and to the issues of supply and demand and so forth and so on.
If it is irrational for the state to prescribe a permanent punishment given our epistemic limitations and prisoners' likelihood for change, wouldn't it be similarly irrational for victims to ignore these considerations?
A scary incident should not be cause for irrational fearmongering.
When that becomes irrational exuberance they are prone to burst.
Spicer is working for a volatile, irrational, and vindictive President.
It also said "irrational" outbound investment has been effectively curbed.
You get to hold on to your irrational infatuation forever.
In favor: So it's stupid, irrational, and silly… Opposed: Yes.
"The fear of sharks is an irrational one," he said.
So it is understandable that some 'irrational exuberance' would emerge.
I have an irrational sense of love for Meek Mill.
What will you accomplish if you quiet this irrational fear?
I'm not the only person with irrational fears, of course.
Human behavior is often random, unpredictable, chaotic, inconsistent, and irrational.
Pleased with her obedience, the gods granted her irrational fame.
It's normal to get a bit irrational after a breakup.
What is irrational is the rabid Republican ranting about it.
That kind of growth is obviously unprecedented — and totally irrational.
The Irrational Fear of Nothing from Paul Trillo on Vimeo.
Irrational fears consumed her, as did an obsession with death.
"This is irrational," wrote Ma Wenyu, strategist of Shanxi Securities.
Through my irrational and personally troubling love for Alex Rodriguez.
Yet the FCC's proposed privacy rules embody such irrational thinking.
He saw firsthand how erratic and irrational Dany had become.
Besides, extreme policies fuel irrational fears rather than extinguish them.
Arachnophobia is defined as having an irrational fear of spiders.
Precisely measuring somewhat irrational human behavior is a fool's errand.
An irrational number is one that never ends nor repeats.
Still, he might be sentimental, but he is not irrational.
This may seem irrational, given how shallow these networks are.
America's opposition to her candidacy was "totally irrational," he added.
I still love the book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.
If people in Washington think you're irrational, what the heck.
These fears may seem absurd, but they are not irrational.
After all, people are crass and irrational, incapable of governing.
Sure!); she may make some irrational purchases (a pet hyena?
This is not irrational violence or a spontaneous popular revolt.
Panic buying may be irrational, but it can be comforting.
Titled "Slumberland," the result was as irrational as many dreams.
Billionaire investor Sam Zell also sees "irrational exuberance" in stocks.
His undoing of net neutrality was capricious, irrational, and unpopular.
The High Court ruled in April that decision was irrational.
She notes that many shopaholics buy things for irrational reasons.
Why do we remain so determinedly irrational as a species?
Dramatic, nuts, delusional, unhinged, hysterical, irrational, and, of course — crazy.
The gamble is not an irrational one by the government.
And I'm not sure if that is irrational or not.
You have to realize not all conspiracy theories are irrational.
She also started having irrational thoughts as the bloating increased.
The two agreed that it creates "irrational competition," according to Gurley.
Bubbles make pricing irrational going up as well as going down.
They are all doused by the irrational meaninglessness of our lives.
In it, Lawrence got very real about her biggest irrational fear.
It is an irrational 2017 policy that will produce a backlash.
For a "normal power," these acts of aggression may seem irrational.
"It was not irrational," the judge wrote of the board's decision.
As irrational as Trump often appears, though, he's politically not wrong.
Irrational fears are stories that we weave into long, spinning tales.
" The Washington Examiner editorial board: "This is inhumane, unjust, and irrational.
This is a function of irrational investment decisions based on emotion.
And here's what they do, and here's how irrational it is.
It is not irrational to treat cookie dough the same way.
For decades, Americans thought Mao Zedong was an irrational, unstable dictator.
I want her to grow up without these common irrational fears.
Wear their irrational theory as a badge of honor, Mr. President.
I certainly don't find emotional and irrational arguments like yours persuasive.
But that irrational fear is, in itself, a form of prejudice.
But his irrational behavior is necessary to move the plot along.
Toxic people drive you crazy because their behavior is so irrational.
Please tell me the most irrational thing that annoys your mum?
You forget that they aren't all irrational, or hypocritical, or hateful.
Jeopardising the proven benefits of liberalisation in this way seems irrational.
Police reports did not describe Hernandez-Llach as showing irrational behavior.
Such an irrational methodology should not be long for this world.
Van Hove, she says, taught her that human beings are irrational.
"But the market's not crazy, nor is it irrational," he said.
ICAHN: YEAH, YEAH, I WANT TO CHANGE THE WORD IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE.
Bush paid no discernible political price for his party's irrational exuberance
Unless schools end these irrational policies, we will always remain vulnerable.
What are the chances that the refugees are protesting irrational writing?
Our behavior is not selfish and rational, but rather consistently irrational.
Difficult people drive you crazy because their behavior is so irrational.
And who will care for the irrational human when they're old?
Stone appeared as one of the leads in "Irrational Man" (2015).
It would be wildly irrational in economic terms, the thinking goes.
I think it's good to maintain some of that irrational romanticism.
I am probably being irrational, but I'd like your advice anyway.
And the urge to act on your irrational plan will pass.
To the typical atheist, all this looks irrational, and therefore unacceptable.
But the market can stay irrational for a very long time.
But in an industry known for irrational optimism, skepticism now abounds.
That calculus confounded old-school economists, who saw it as irrational.
When are we going to stop trying to rationalize the irrational?
State planners are monitoring "irrational" investments in sports, media and hospitality.
Is it irrational to wonder if that could influence the President?
When facing overwhelming odds, it is often rational to be irrational.
"  Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, said Trump's order is "irrational.
We have now entered the territory of irrational fear of change.
Kim Jong-un is irrational and unhinged, but so is Trump.
I think I got a very irrational bee in my bonnet.
This article originally appeared on VICE UK Love makes us irrational.
It looks a bit irrational on Trump's part to be sure.
What looked in 1987 like a bursting bubble after a period of irrational exuberance, which was likely to trigger a recession, now looks like a period of irrational pessimism, which didn't slow the economy at all.
So humans' irrational fear of sharks is really emotionally not statistically driven.
Her seemingly irrational fears of loud sounds being gunshots had come true.
Why are the irrational prejudices of others being valued above individual rights?
Donald Trump did not give an irrational speech on foreign policy Wednesday.
At the heart of a lot of our irrational fears are stories.
Wallace allegedly refused to bathe in prison, and was making irrational statements.
The irrational fear of anxiety disorders was once probably useful and lifesaving.
The studio formerly known as Irrational Games is now called "Ghost Story".
Are you able to separate the irrational fears from the rational ones?
The violence of jihadists "is neither irrational nor whimsical", argues Mr Maher.
The irrational fear that comes with cutting your hair is pretty universal.
He moves between weaponry and energy, cataloguing mistakes, dishonesty and irrational fears.
It's an irrational guilt, I know, but I still felt it nonetheless.
As the plane swung around, what remained of my irrational hope died.
And if we get angry, we're hysterical, irrational or just being crazy.
That's not to say that worrying about the government is always irrational.
To project our anxieties on the parents in these cases is irrational.
But don't let anyone tell you your fear of clowns is irrational.
"Irrational exuberance" may lead them to produce so much that prices collapse.
Past memories and his irrational inner thoughts soon plague his every move.
She senses the irrational lurking within every gesture, symbol, structure, and sentiment.
I can't be very objective, it's something that borders on the irrational.
It's irrational, though most can understand the feeling, at least in theory.
His irrational vitriol and thin skin are becoming more and more evident.
The reason is something free-market economists struggle to anticipate: irrational consumers.
That didn't seem fair because we've all had irrational blow-ups before.
And I wanted to, but I was paralyzed by an irrational fear.
People commit crimes for a variety of reasons, many of them irrational.
We all have a — perhaps irrational — concern to know our biological parentage.
Your desperate objections are rebuffed as merely the product of irrational emotion.
All panics begin with a rational fear that quickly turns dangerously irrational.
Herding occurs when individuals mirror the sometimes irrational actions of a group.
ARM is best left for the irrational, the exuberant or the desperate.
The alternative is appealing to voters' bigotry, populist nationalism, and irrational fear.
This kind of irrational thinking is fueling the current stock market rally.
That's because passionate founders are more likely to make irrational business decisions.
If he is truly concerned with China, then his strategy is irrational.
We cannot let irrational fear and hate mongering rule our immigration policy.
We should try to stop irrational behavior from happening at the forefront.
It's irrational, yes, but damn—Valve was my favorite developer for years.
For me, cooking and eating meals were passionate and sometimes irrational affairs.
MORE, it appears millions have also projected irrational fears onto Donald Trump.
It said decisions taken by Nersa were "procedurally unfair, irrational and unreasonable".
But the strategy may be less irrational than the raw numbers suggest.
To be an anti-Semite is to have irrational prejudice against Jews.
The really strange thing is that the city's officials aren't being irrational.
But analysts say that while Kim's behavior is brutal, it's not irrational.
If they're irrational, it means they can't be allowed to have nukes.
After 9/11, there was an understandable — but irrational — fear of flying.
And if we get angry, we're hysterical, irrational, or just being crazy.
And if we get angry, we're hysterical, irrational or just being crazy.
How could such a cruel and seemingly irrational view gain such purchase?
They are not irrational to do so, from a narrow tactical perspective.
This decision was unacceptable, irrational and ultimately detrimental to our longstanding friendship.
By most assessments, Mr. Kim is vicious and impetuous, but not irrational.
Republicans in Congress tried once again to rationalize the president's irrational behavior.
The market hasn't been fueled by a rush of irrational exuberance either.
She cited her husband's "irrational and frightening behavior," according to court papers.
Our rational minds aren't calling the shots here -- our irrational fears are.
It's incredibly important to stay calm and not make any irrational decisions.
Certainly, I was aware of the larger concerns, the irrational, irreducible elements.
This tendency towards irrational overvaluation is rooted in human nature, he says.
"I recognize that this is somewhat irrational," Urschel said on the segment.
Humans are often irrational and underpurchase goods that they really, really need.
Officials, including the prime minister, have voiced concerns about an irrational frenzy.
The shitty thing is, I will continue to do this, because I have an irrational love for this sport and an even more irrational love for my favorite team, made even more indefensible because it is the Jets.
To 19883 decimal places, the celebrated irrational number that never ends is 3.1415926535897932384626433832795.
But unlike the unyielding authoritarian state, this adversary is completely unpredictable and irrational.
Most of them will be irrational fears and worries about your own survival.
It's irrational and ridiculous, but I can't help it and neither can they.
So long as such distinctions are not wholly irrational they must be sustained.
Perhaps it is not irrational for firms to shy away from difficult memories.
But when you're struggling with OCD, irrational fears don't always succumb to logic.
But the irrational hatred of President Trump on the left knows no bounds.
De Soto's proposal was not irrational: There are real costs to legal insecurity.
Women have faced rhetorical barrages that make them seem irrational, angry, and weak.
She risks demonising as irrational or unethical all those who support the president.
It was just another quirk of being me, this irrational phobia of mine.
It's possible, but you would have to be probably insane or completely irrational.
You give an inch, and they will take a mile in irrational demands.
We asked friends and co-workers about what irrational thing grinds their gears.
Differing interests, perspectives or assumptions don't automatically make a person irrational, she says.
Your cantankerous, irrational old grandpa was out there asking if Harden was drugged.
It then classified the drugs into rational, irrational, and those requiring more studies.
The choice to not join the cocktail party was pretty immature and irrational.
"The market is sometimes irrational and sometimes rational" about such worries, he reflected.
Overcoming manipulation Emotional manipulators drive you crazy because their behavior is so irrational.
From that point on, Hopper's irrational jealousy is almost always played for laughs.
Well, when it comes to actual phobias, it's by definition an irrational fear.
One is this irrational fear that they will be blamed and they're innocent.
It is nearing the time when pragmatism, not cynical, irrational stunts, should prevail.
But being angry with someone else over your own unforced errors is irrational.
State media has called on people to oppose "irrational patriotism" over the case.
Otherwise it is misguided, irrational, swayed by populism and a lack of education.
Perhaps the most irrational claim has to do with federal versus state oversight.
The masses had proved themselves to be ignorant, irrational and prone to violence.
It's not irrational to think that WeWork still has value, business experts said.
There's "no irrational exuberance" in contrast with the 1999 bubble, the note said.
Working and talking with a financial planner can help subside the irrational behaviors.
Sports cars are irrational; just ask anybody who has ever owned a Ferrari.
You had to take them as they were: distracted, confused, irrational under duress.
Some people argue that North Korea's leaders are not just intransigent but irrational.
But what if doctors are a little irrational, like the rest of us?
" Sessions called sanctuary cities "radical" policies: "They are irrational, they make no sense.
But how do I explain away something as inexplicable and irrational as depression?
But, to then have to deal with the irrational wrath of online sociopaths?
Even irrational behavior is rational when seen as a larger grouping of patterns.
Imagine that you want to approximate all irrational numbers between 0 and 1.
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent," said Stark.
It doesn't help to know that those fears may not be wholly irrational.
So one view of the Springsteen approach is that it is economically irrational.
This irrational jealousy makes family events extremely uncomfortable for me and my siblings.
It's irrational, meaning it has an endless number of decimals that never repeat.
Just another irrational phobia, but one that impacted my understanding of the world.
It will take a massive educational campaign to overcome the public's irrational fears.
Public discourse about immigration, in the past couple of years, has become irrational.
Trusting your best chance is neither irrational nor allowing yourself to be fooled.
Time and again, rational calculations prove as faulty as irrational forces prove overwhelming.
" He blamed what he said was "both Media and Democrat and Irrational Hostility.
And anyone who deviated from these lines was unrealistic, or flat-out irrational.
Earlier assessments pegged the country as irrational or warped by its own ideology.
Yet it's that deliberate surrender to the irrational that makes watching baseball worthwhile.
Fear, especially irrational fear, plays a big part in catastrophizing, researchers have found.
"You can never be quite sure when irrational exuberance arises," he told CNBC.
Now, you could call that a superstition if you want, it&aposs irrational.
Some have interpreted his tweets as marks of a thin-skinned, irrational man.
What's so heart-rending and irrational about the plans is they're not necessary.
We might not be giving ourselves enough credit for managing through irrational behavior.
People make irrational decisions, he said, when it comes to picking a college.
Narcissistically, obsessively, playfully, she explored the infinite irrational depths of her recalcitrant subjectivity.
This case is hardly irrational, and over time it may be proved right.
Mr. Millies dismisses the anxieties of working-class and uneducated white voters as irrational.
The ECB is coming in for the same kind of irrational criticism from Germany.
Wharton and Wood are both open to the irrational currents flowing through our lives.
It is surprising, then, given their geometric language, how deliberately irrational these paintings are.
It should remain down on the ground as a memorial of the irrational rationale.
Irrational, yes, but that predictable love ensured that consumers repeatedly flocked to IKEA stores.
"When you're struggling with OCD, irrational fears don't always succumb to logic," she writes.
It only works because so much money from irrational rookie bettors skews the odds.
" "Overexcited or irrational, typically as a result of infatuation or excessive enthusiasm; mentally confused.
Mr. Cirelli hit back at what he said was "an unfounded and irrational" controversy.
Julia: That might sound irrational, but I remember Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Contrary to Hollywood's view, AIs will not develop destructive cognitive functions or irrational judgements.
The gap between workers' and bosses' pay was "irrational, unhealthy and growing", she said.
There are irrational, emotionally fueled actions that, as human beings, we can completely understand.
But unlike in the 22s, no single major asset class is inspiring irrational exuberance.
Frankly we do not share the optimism and in some cases the irrational optimism.
You must be the square root of two because I get irrational around you.
Davidonis sent them away, explaining that Mason often was irrational and incoherent after seizures.
She has this irrational confidence right now that makes me sick to the stomach.
The point is there are many reasons why so many make an irrational gamble.
She knows it's irrational, she says, but she sees her stalker wherever she goes.
As time progressed, my trypophobia—an irrational fear of hole clusters—only grew worse.
It's not so complicated, Aquarius, but it does mean listening to those irrational feelings.
I would literally have panic attacks just from smelling weed, which was obviously irrational.
"It's impossible when you have a new technology to avoid irrational exuberance," he said.
"This is my husband indulging my total irrational Cirque du Soleil dream," Biel wrote.
The men of Money Monster play the emotional, irrational roles that incite the action.
Question: My wife is five months pregnant and so moody that she's borderline irrational.
"They can both be irrational and don't think before they put everything out there."
And that the parties hate each other so much, they both get quite irrational.
But what if they are making a rational investment, just in an irrational way?
Some politicians think that popular fears of perishing in a terrorist attack are irrational.
His long-held ideology about aging and dying "naturally" suddenly seemed stubborn and irrational.
It was accessible and mysterious, beautiful and ugly, urgent yet Olympian, irrational and irresistible.
"I think that irrational responses may well lead people to save less," Munnell said.
They can both be irrational and don't think before they put everything out there.
The good news is, experts say that the nerves and anxiety aren't necessarily irrational.
Some can be located in certain primal emotions and the irrational behaviors they generate.
They were unwilling to recognize any larger structure to it, preferring to see irrational
Many will likely act on that sense of insecurity in irrational and destructive ways.
This may be irrational, but it also reflects the shifting character of public violence.
Policymakers, too, are irrational, so their desire for nudges should be treated with caution.
PG: For a long time, I put irrational hatred of Hillary down to sexism.
He explained to me all the infuriatingly irrational ways psychic numbing rears its head.
And right now, there is nothing that can prove that irrational little hope wrong.
"Mistakes are powerful — they set these irrational forces loose," he said in an interview.
However, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday Athens could not accept "irrational" demands.
Nothing gets to the heart of human behaviour more than vulnerability, fear, irrational paranoia.
For anybody who lives in a city, range anxiety is mostly an irrational fear.
"But the market's not crazy, nor is it irrational," the "Mad Money " host said.
As Ms. Tien's closing sentence entreats, can't love (and objective facts) dispel irrational fear?
And on this day, math enthusiasts around the world celebrate the irrational number. Why?
"What Rockland County has done is remarkably irrational in every conceivable way," he said.
"And they are becoming irrational investments because everyone is bidding for the same projects."
"The hatred of him is irrational in its intensity," he said of Mr. Macron.
Air pressure and dehydration on a plane can also lead people to irrational action.
People lose their minds and they do irrational things and they hurt each other.
In the wake of a loved one's suicide, irrational shame haunts those left behind.
Their work has suggested that we're actually a lot more irrational than we think.
If there's evidence of irrational exuberance anywhere in financial markets, this may be it.
These are giants with real earnings, yet signs of an irrational euphoria are growing.
Andersen told The Chicago Tribune this month that he is sympathetic to irrational impulses.
It was irrational, yes, but nothing scared me more than the notion of driving.
But it argues against the idea of irrational overheating that risks a true meltdown.
Irrational thoughts tend to enter the mind in times of elevated levels of stress.
It's possible to calculate precisely how irrational Newton and his contemporaries became during 1720.
They see women as beloved and beautiful accessories, maybe tangentially helpful, sometimes irrational irritations.
Kim is not the irrational maniacal ruler as some would try to convince us.
"He has that almost irrational confidence," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra told reporters of Waiters.
He has alienated many with outrageous comments and irrational behavior, yet remains wildly popular.
Irrational confidence, says Colston, fueled any success he's had on or off the field.
"It is an irrational expectation, and it's not an expectation I have," he said.
I think everyone should play it, unless you have an irrational fear of Tingle.
Now we begin to understand why people believe lies and vote for irrational politicians.
Or, it could be taken as a sign of irrational hunger for tech IPOs.
"It's not too difficult to portray the policy as just being flat-out irrational, and then you can pull in the Muslim ban rhetoric by way of adding to that argument that it's irrational policy and that then has constitutional questions," Spiro said.
The whole campaign process is profoundly irrational, and emotion and symbolism are crucial to it.
Rather, she recognizes that we are all guided by different sets of beliefs, some irrational.
Irrational exuberance inevitably invites corrections, but it's beginning to look like we're witnessing a massacre.
What's happening is well short of the irrational exuberance that preceded the 2014 price collapse.
Just stop being filled with irrational hate for people that are slightly different than you.
Do you have an irrational fear of making (or, more specifically, failing at) pie crusts?
Given the current state of EV technology and infrastructure, it's not an entirely irrational fear.
"Irrational exuberance" is the phrase being thrown around right now by a lot of people.
With so much time and money invested, it seemed irrational to simply call it off.
Economists who study historical art markets are very clear on the reality of irrational actors.
Such behaviour smacks of irrational exuberance, but caution is in order before delivering that verdict.
As with Irrational, the new studio exists under the umbrella of publisher Take-Two Interactive.
Since AirPods were first announced, there has been an almost irrational fear of losing AirPods.
Trump&aposs success has boxed Democrats into such radical positions they are becoming politically irrational.
They embraced the irrational and emotive as potential pathways to pure imagination and social liberation.
Talk about how scared you are by what a big, irrational player your target is.
Many American presidents have also been lousy at their jobs and prone to irrational behaviour.
And why do I have this irrational need to be more than just a customer?
The president has already shown an alarming escalation of irrational behavior during times of distress.
I'm learning how to restructure my thought patterns and address some of my irrational fears.
He quickly followed the criticism with an acknowledgment that Trump's fears were not completely irrational.
Consider, say, Irrational Exuberance, an HTC Vive-based extraterrestrial excursion by game developer Ben Vance.
But I find myself wondering: why does the ire go beyond that, into irrational territory?
Honestly, in the often surprising and irrational world of cryptocurrencies, it could go either way.
West Africans, it seemed to some, were stuck in the fatal grip of irrational superstition.
They slip between going crazy and doing irrational things and then being really clamped down.
Obviously, that's an irrational fear, since these things were designed to take blows from longswords.
Sometimes you might feel like you're irrational, maybe at times you might be, but hey!
But when you're in the moment, it's very irrational and hard to mentally push through.
It's also one of the keys to understanding why political discourse can be so irrational.
Cutting our irrational austerity frenzy to step up investment in infrastructure is a no-brainer.
Separate the rational from the irrational; separate what matters now to what doesn't matter now.
Valuations in the private markets, particularly the late-stage private markets, can sometimes be irrational.
Humans are compulsive, irrational and petty, yes, but they are also selfless, intelligent and idealistic.
"The thing with suicide is that you can never rationalize an irrational choice," Boudreau says.
"So why are companies doing something totally irrational and contrary to a burgeoning bottom line?"
Women in the sex industry are constantly dehumanized by society's irrational and sex-negative standards.
Not just one but the rationale behind this was just so irrational and so extreme.
All I know is I've recently developed an irrational fear of opening my Google Alerts.
At long last, it seemed Weezer had succumbed to the overwhelming and irrational internet demand!
An irrational and self-defeating America will become a threat to itself and the world.
Publicly Trump blamed the reversal on "crazed and irrational" hostility from Democrats and the media.
The vast majority are irrational numbers, never-ending decimals that cannot be written as fractions.
"We need to chart a course between negative churlishness and irrational exuberance," Mr. Hill said.
However, she might have reasons for her behavior, even if it seems irrational to you.
But Bloom also paints him as a man with an unquenchable, irrational thirst for power.
Since his campaign, Mr. Trump has expressed a strong, irrational distaste for the nuclear deal.
It's appropriate that I'm dressed like a giant toddler, because I'm whiny, fractious and irrational.
It may be an irrational adherence to the discredited trickle-down theories of Milton Friedman.
And you get these spurts of sort of -- well, Greenspan said it best, irrational exuberance.
Irrational exuberance met the realities of earnings and gross margins (The New York Times DealBook).
"It's my job to bring more rationality, but never forget the irrational side," he said.
How can anybody work with an irrational number that goes on and on and on?
The left understands the depth of irrational hatred for this president, and are exploiting it.
Producers lashed out at "irrational" speculation as prices collapsed under a torrent of short-selling.
Key to irrational confidence is putting in the work and research to take informed risks.
Following the incident, Williams was labeled in the media as being emotional, angry and irrational.
But one fundamental thing seems to me really essential to confront: We have irrational bodies.
The administration's antipathy toward China sometimes seems driven by an irrational anger over trade deficits.
After all, Bitcoin and Ether's runaway valuation looks like a case study in irrational exuberance.
All this, however, depends on overcoming an irrational dread among the public and many activists.
But her images aren't fanciful because she made free, irrational associations like her male peers.
Some of those emotions are irrational, while others are based in fact (eggplant, theater kids).
"Impractical if not irrational," Richard Safran, a defense analyst at Buckingham Research, said by email.
Then it makes its key prediction: If that sum goes off to infinity, then you have approximated virtually all irrational numbers; if that sum instead stops at a finite value, no matter how many measures you sum together, then you've approximated virtually no irrational numbers.
" In response to Charles Blow's argument that "Many people who buy guns are simply racked with an irrational fear, one of several concocted and promoted by the N.R.A.," Jacqueline wrote in October: "I'm not sure that the fear I have for my life is irrational.
" In December 2015, shortly after Trump announced his Muslim ban, Sayegh called it "irrational and unconstitutional.
Recognizing the social function of news sharing is the key to understanding this seeming irrational behavior.
When they ask for the same treatment as the men, they were told it was irrational.
Judy believes the rock cursed them with bad luck, but Steve thinks she is being irrational.
We don't know what that "something" is, but it's not irrational to be worried about it.
This is why Trump's irrational and ongoing battle with professional journalists is so hard to understand.
"  "The vast majority of courts have seen the ban for what it is: irrational, rank discrimination.
Unhappy ones will eventually rely on logic to make purchasing decisions regardless of their irrational criticisms.
The chief justice, Dipak Misra, called the ban on gay sex "irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary".
Years of propaganda and "patriotic education" have fuelled an irrational nationalism over Taiwan among ordinary Chinese.
The "uncivilized" parts of the world are full of emotional, irrational, tribal people prone to violence.
This irrational ugliness is something the comic book community hasn't yet figured out how to solve.
Love also makes you do the irrational, like getting your partner's face tattooed on your arm.
Sure, there are irrational things I love about books — yes, including that wonderful old book smell.
The somewhat irrational focus on housing unintentionally gets at what it means to be a Housewife.
Kalamazoo County Circuit Court Judge Paul J. Bridenstine called Jones' death "senseless, irrational and vicious," MLive.
"How can Pompeo make such impudent and irrational remarks (about Hezbollah) while visiting Lebanon," he said.
Or, at least, that's what we are pretty sure why the irrational number is so important.
This kind of thinking is irrational, petty, irresponsible and harmful to the sanctity of the country.
There will be assets that will sell off on an irrational basis that will provide opportunities.
As irrational as the North is portrayed in the West, its actions aren't totally without reason.
As voters, we all make irrational, emotional choices (based on the groups which we belong to).
"This is the last mile and this is the hardest thing," Ubben said of Irrational Capital.
Reason should govern society, we must avoid passion, we must avoid the purely instinctive, the irrational.
In Heisenberg's Salon, Susan Lewis reveals the irrational lurking within every gesture, symbol, structure, and sentiment.
"I know it sounds completely irrational, but I had this terrible phobia," Costello, 68, tells PEOPLE.
For example, some companies don't trust the IBM/Maersk system because it's not their blockchain. Irrational?
But typically, we can dismiss this as an irrational fear and move on with our lives.
Painting herself as philanthropic and innocent, she renders the Boyle Heights protestors as aggressive and irrational.
It's irrational to argue that a media outlet can be flimsy yet capable of destroying lives.
To understand what Trump is really doing, it's worth revisiting Sigmund Freud's analysis of irrational logic.
This woman's irrational and ignorant decision put our lives and her passengers in very real danger.
Such demonization makes it easier to increase irrational fears that can be weaponized for political purposes.
He may be someone who in many respects we would say by our standards is irrational.
"The wedding industry as a whole is driven by very irrational, emotional behavior," Tinker pointed out.
We must acknowledge the dangers underlying these highly charged and frequently irrational approaches to complex problems.
Just hearing about that meeting in Los Angeles, it's so volatile and irrational, and so dangerous.
The irrational need to change, fix, or control other adults is a serious mental health problem.
Anyway, that's my irrational hang-up about our brave new video game economy, but what's yours?
I agree that our withdrawal from the deal is irrational and not in America's best interests.
The problems with crypto-currencies are so glaring that something irrational must be sustaining the zeal.
I will support her steadfast bravery against the arbitrary, unfair, irrational constraints set by Chairman Grassley.
Now the administration must acknowledge the irreparable harm these irrational decisions have on our fragile climate.
We Americans frequently make the mistake of assuming that our enemies are crazy, irrational or stupid.
Politically, it's more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.
That your vote alone almost certainly won't determine who wins doesn't mean that voting is irrational.
Social scientists use Vladimir's choice to explain the seemingly irrational behaviour of subjects in psychological experiments.
That the Saudis feel threatened by yet another Iranian proxy on their doorstep is not irrational.
IT'S PROBABLY NOT COMPLETELY IRRATIONAL MEANING THERE'S A LOT OF UNDERPINING, THERE'S A LOT OF STRENGTH.
This is not irrational, given what he has experienced since day one in the Oval Office.
However, academics have long asked, what if our reasons for choosing a candidate really are irrational?
As it stands, this anachronistic policy is irrational, strains relations with America's neighbors and endangers lives.
This is a blow to LGBT activists, who consider the ban to be cruel and irrational.
The move formalized Beijing's attempts beginning last November to control what it called "irrational" foreign investments.
Finally, we should not underestimate the role of the media in keeping this irrational belief alive.
Stocks should move in our favor, but sometimes the market can be irrational, so we'll see.
When the irrational, unpredictable, inconsistent man at the White House might just trash it all anyways?
When people affected by issues spoke for themselves, they got too angry, too weepy, too irrational.
Bipartisan cooperation is often necessary for governance, but irrational for the minority party to engage in.
I know it's an irrational fear, and I feel like even knowing this helps me some.
People succeed, but it is kind of irrational and kind of ridiculous to start that way.
Trump's wall is about an irrational fear of outsiders -- but it's about more than that, too.
Now they can maintain their irrational confidence and continue to overestimate their political forecasting batting average.
But Dirichlet proved a straightforward relationship between fractions, irrational numbers and the errors separating the two.
The structure of this graph encodes the overlap between the irrational numbers approximated by each denominator.
Without limits, Clausewitz argued, theory could be misused to justify and rationalize the unjust and irrational.
There is a counter-tradition, however, which says that human beings are the uniquely irrational animal.
In its more than three years in power, this government has been irrational, bordering on messianic.
Lyle also bears the irrational guilt of having failed for years to protect his little brother.
Luckily, thanks to sobriety, I don't have to act on my irrational impulses or fears anymore.
In fact, some of his followers are actively hostile to religion, seeing it as fundamentally irrational.
Irrational, cruel and surprising to the outside world, we cling to our ideas despite all evidence.
If you argue their pain is irrational, that just puts a wall between you and him.
I'm filled with an irrational desire for sentience from the X-ray machine: Tell me everything.
It's common historically for women and female activists to be labeled as irrational or too emotional.
As it happens, it is an irrational, aspirational, surreal retelling of the story of St. Anthony.
It has always been politically profitable to frame your opponents' rhetoric as irrational, cruel, even dangerous.
I have interviewed Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller several times, who authored the classic Irrational Exuberance.
JAMES GORMAN: I mean, it's -- you know, the market's very short-term can be quite irrational.
CNPC's chairman added the current oil price was "irrational" and said he expected it to rise.
"It would be very irrational behavior because it's a fight they could not win," he said.
" Graham then blasted White House staffers "who have an irrational view of how to fix immigration.
And yet we shouldn't look upon this buying spree as a sign of irrational epidemic-panic.
Re: Unwilling father: I agree, but let's also understand our society's irrational responses to unplanned pregnancies.
I recognized them for what they were, irrational and irreducible, as uncanny as they were compelling.
Being stuck on a line with no mechanism to ever move forward, is irrational and inhumane.
The word "workaholic," though, suggests someone with an addiction, and addictions, by definition, involve irrational behavior.
Australians have a strong, often irrational suspicion of people who leave the country, succeed and change.
Although access to more information can help quell irrational fears, information alone is often not enough.
Anyone looking for evidence of how irrational politics can be should look to Catalonia right now.
It's irrational both to ignore good developments and to put a happy face on bad ones.
Irrational actions, for both men and women, often manifest as breaches of trust from the past.
"Best of luck with humanity not being irrational," the administrator says over the phone from Canada.
At boarding school he excelled in being beaten: "irrational discipline", he recalled, always made him react badly.
I always thought that was irrational of me, because I have a green card and I'm safe.
Those controls include bans on "irrational investment" such as purchases of overseas properties, hotels and football clubs.
"In a midlife crisis people do irrational things and they do them at inopportune times," Glazer said.
Additionally, those investors tend to be more sober-eyed and less susceptible to bouts of irrational exuberance.
"If confirmed, this looks like pure vindictiveness by the leadership ... this is an irrational act," she said.
"This is my husband indulging my total irrational Cirque du Soleil dream," Biel, 36, captioned the post.
" A spokesman for the Democratic mayor slammed the Republican governor's action as an "irresponsible and irrational decision.
"What coastal staff is proposing is entirely unreasonable, it&aposs irrational," Massara told the Los Angeles Times.
They argued it was irrational to worry about "non-economic" issues like preserving local control over business.
He was a drug addict and he was prone to really irrational fits of violence and stuff.
This information is a useful corrective to the myth that people become poor because they're irrational agents.
But the two shared a fascination with how people repeatedly make the same kinds of irrational mistakes.
Many of those who support regime change believe that the Kim government is fundamentally untrustworthy or irrational.
It's a way of rationalizing something that is, in all its smelly, sleep-deprived brilliance, utterly irrational.
An experienced trader instinctively knows that the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
In spite of this, I'm plagued by a bizarre, irrational and retroactive jealousy of her past relationships.
E. R. Dodds's "The Greeks and the Irrational," about a world and a time full of magic.
They say it's part of Korean culture, and insulting to Westerners simply because of some irrational taboo.
Both showed how investors could be prey to "irrational exuberance" and push asset prices to absurd levels.
"Somehow it felt like it might soften things, ease the pain — however irrational it is," she said.
Credit Suisse, a bank, says that Anbang's rush to expand generated "irrational competition" in the insurance sector.
She patiently waits for an irrational patient to stop complaining about some sort of pre-blood clot.
This same burning brain power apparently causes Hazel to express irrational fears about forest fires and poisoning.
He has implied that we are irrational and hysterical while on our periods, impacting on job performance.
The current discussion of the "Russian Threat" has created a similar irrational demand for security silver bullets.
Fits of this seemingly irrational generosity, called a universal basic income or U.B.I., are becoming surprisingly common.
"A source who recently met with White House tax officials: Their mood as one of "irrational optimism.
He has worked as a designer for Double Fine and Irrational, and is currently making games independently.
As I've written, being afraid to subject a healthy baby to dozens of needles isn't necessarily irrational.
Thumbs Speaking of nostalgia, did anyone else have an irrational obsession with World Industries as a child?
In its editorial, Xinhua said it was "definitely irrational" to blame China for North Korea's missile launch.
In the age of Trump, when snap tariffs are routinely threatened, this is hardly an irrational assumption.
The world's concerns over Superman are largely irrational responses to something they don't understand and can't control.
For Roberts, this period of rest and recovery is met with anxiety, paranoia, and irrational lashing out.
I was developing an intense, irrational fear of vomit and I had no idea what to do.
But even more irrational would be a belief that our righteous indignation will change President Trump's mind.
But unfortunately, mass killings by lone gunman and terrorist groups means this worry is no longer irrational.
Any other price response would be irrational because it would violate the requirement for inter-temporal consistency.
Only her assertion that 100 percent proficiency is impossible, or irrational — take your pick — has any validity.
Moreover, irrational leaders with nuclear weapons—leaders such as Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong — were successfully deterred.
But what if government exacerbated this irrational behavior by the way it ordered names on the ballot?
" But he said what's happening now with the Democratic Party is an "irrational kind of political approach.
Kim's grandfather was irrational in the face of obviously overwhelming odds, and was smashed because of it.
That is the remedy for England's eternity of hurt: we must be resentful, angry and thoroughly irrational.
"How do you put logic onto an irrational despot" like North Korea's Kim Jong Un, he asks.
Alan Greenspan's warning of "irrational exuberance" at the end of 5003 correctly presaged the dot-com bubble.
If it's an irrational drive, maybe I would have to start from the experiences that triggered it.
Do you have any tips for someone who is playing a game against someone who is irrational?
Those who are anti-Trump, they see Trump himself, and his supporters, as illegitimate—racist, misogynist, irrational.
Enthusiastic because I now respected the seriousness of the virus without living in irrational fear of it.
Economists call this irrational exuberance: the point at which enthusiasm overpowers clear-headed analysis of economic fundamentals.
I just started noticing that I always have this sense of impending doom, this weird irrational fear.
It's completely irrational, but I never really realized that until I started getting into therapy more often.
Robert Shiller's "Irrational Exuberance" is one of the most important finance books that explain how bubbles develop.
Ullmann-Margalit doubted that such transformative choices could be evaluated as sound or unsound, rational or irrational.
As with many apparently irrational decisions by this president, it's not that easy to know for sure.
And since then, there's been a lot of competition in the early days, some rational, some irrational.
He is not a grand strategist, but an irrational man who rose in an era of irrationality.
Given that outcome, making Woods a favorite this week might seem equally foolhardy, if not downright irrational.
Bannon's rhetorical move of transforming vices based on irrational prejudice into virtues is not without historical precedent.
It is, in Hitler's rhetoric, not only a good thing to harbor irrational hatred of Jewish people.
It's in the small, changing, irrational cartoon characters that offer a familiar glimpse into the viewer's reality.
The lawsuit calls this difference "irrational" and claims that "the intent to discriminate" can be easily inferred.
It sounds like, on the one hand, it's not irrational for people to eat food they understand.
It doesn't have any reason to grapple with unwelcome facts, calm irrational fears, or temper unrealistic expectations.
The period from September into mid-October, thick with springing hope and irrational exuberance, has its charms.
She is committed to pursuing this essential part of her being, regardless of how irrational the quest.
The man who has invested in a circus and a margarine company wants to eliminate irrational investments.
The antipathy is economically irrational, but fits neatly with his predominant vision of a globally respected Turkey.
Love is irrational in ways good and bad, expected and unexpected, forever and for a little while.
There are plenty of global crises where he could have been a lot more irrational or destabilizing.
Citizens engage in politics in unpredictable and irrational ways, as if reacting to sudden spasms of pain.
This would risk further irrational action from Washington, perhaps not just against Iran but also other enemies.
Because Haley finds this out from Derek, it reignites JPJ's massive and massively irrational beef with him.
"Irrational exuberance" was a phrase coined by former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan in a speech in 1996.
Is bitcoin akin to the dot-com bubble of 2000-85033, an updated manifestation of "irrational exhuberance"?
The United States can no longer tolerate the aggressive and irrational behavior of the North Korean regime.
Dave is not immune to the tug and pull of the irrational behavior that accompanies emotional investing.
But Bartels told CNBC on Friday that she does not see any "irrational exuberance" in the market.
They may be dishonest, and they're almost certainly acting in bad faith, but are they being irrational?
Teenagers often succumb to the temptation of having fun and enjoyment, causing them to make irrational decisions.
I expect that we will agonize about using them, out of both legitimate caution and irrational fear.
I wouldn't trust anybody who was in the word business who didn't maintain a few irrational beliefs.
The irrational behavior of the Tennessee General Assembly is completely coherent when viewed through the book's lens.
It's a way to have a public conversation about the rational and irrational worries of having children.
In all of them, he has displayed a similar pattern: irrational overreaction to perceived insults and slights.
When I use system-two thinking, I understand that this instinctual reaction of mine is both irrational and uncharitable — irrational because we're all always waiting for one another and there's no way to avoid it; uncharitable because I expect alacrity from others that I don't always display myself.
Sculptor Margaret Wharton and painter Issy Wood are both open to the irrational currents flowing through our lives.
Walking away from the Clean Power Plan and other climate initiatives... is not just irresponsible — it is irrational.
You have to confront your fear, mold it, then learn to control it in its own irrational reality.
This political correctness is quickly approaching dangerous and irrational levels the likes of which we've never witnessed before.
Every coach knows that such matches can be won on tiny details, and sometimes the most irrational things.
"The vast majority of courts have seen the ban for what it is: irrational, rank discrimination," said Renn.
That's obviously risky if they miscalculate, but competing in China's smartphone market is already a borderline-irrational pursuit.
However, all these challenges won't deter the irrational exuberance of new founders from trying to disrupt the sector.
Besides the Tesla phenomenon, Hartnett cited the boom of exchange-traded funds as another example of irrational behavior.
And then too, they will fail, because they can never quite replicate the irrational aspects of human behavior.
Do you think there is some irrational exuberance on Wall Street right now expecting that kind of loosening?
To commit yourself unconditionally to supporting one global religion against another is an act of irrational self-limitation.
Loss is a powerful emotion, and the fear of loss can lead us to irrational, often harmful actions.
"This cold-hearted and irrational decision will have disastrous consequences for these families from Puerto Rico," Connecticut Sen.
Thirteen tumultuous months later Mrs May has finally got around to addressing Britain's "irrational" and "unhealthy" pay gap.
You might think markets are irrational, but even if they are, that spills over into the real economy.
Cramer emphasized the importance of being able to take a step back and recognize when moves are irrational.
We all have our own irrational fears — and the less sense they make, the worse they often are.
As irrational as this is, I am not willing to apply the same logic to anyone else's experiences.
"Laing would surrender to a logic more powerful than reason," Hiddleston narrates, hand-waving away any irrational behavior.
But investors doing these swaps in the U.S. energy market do not have an irrational appetite for destruction.
Or is this simply a way to try and explain the irrational actions of a popular, problematic musician?
"When it comes to Israel, I think Obama was better than Trump because Trump is irrational," says Liav.
This is why we have irrational crushes on internet boyfriends like Oscar Isaac (and Chris Pratt before him).
The days of vanity valuations based on irrational multiples are over, although we never played that game anyway.
But still, if I were to make an utterly irrational five-figure purchase, this might be the one.
Around 2-3% of people in developed countries have clinical aviophobia: an intense and irrational fear of flying.
Being best friends and all, these guys clearly knew that their friend holds an irrational fear of heights.
Irrational upward assessments happen too, but those aren't buying opportunities, and value investing is about buying, not shorting.
He also clung to a similar, largely irrational suspicion that the American social elite was pitted against him.
In the 1990s, "irrational exuberance" and a mania for internet stocks created an unsustainable bubble in share prices.
Naoto's desire for gender reassignment is deemed irrational and potentially damaging because, really, he'll always be a woman.
The same irrational fear that drove my evacuation from Indonesia in 2001 is driving the current political climate.
Then the slower money, the investors, use those sell-offs, which seem irrational to them, to get in.
Meanwhile, there are things Congress could be doing to counter not Trump's embarrassing persona but his irrational policies.
"Ghostbusters" turns on the threat of one apocalypse; the irrational hatred toward it turns on another end time.
Politicians taking medical options off the table for women at any stage of pregnancy is irrational and dangerous.
Before you crumple this paper into a ball, or click away, I admit that my antipathy is irrational.
He and the thinkers who built and worship him reject anything irrational, selfless, emotional, connected, uncounted, loving, female.
And for years, the conventional wisdom about North Korea was that it was unpredictable, irrational and thus undeterrable.
For this reason, valuations in the private markets, particularly the late-stage private markets, can sometimes be irrational.
He's a threat in the Mideast because of his irrational, chaotic Iran policy, where we had an agreement.
The rise of the machines could eat away at one Buffett advantage: the ability to avoid irrational decisions.
"The Wall" gave him a solid image to evoke as he stoked an irrational fear of undocumented immigrants.
In fact, that a ritual should seem irrational or superstitious to outsiders is part of what defines it.
There is something about a grilled cheese sandwich that seems to trigger irrational violence in middle-aged men.
But she's a mother at the end of the day and worries about all things rational and irrational.
But it is maybe exacerbated by the irrational decision making of people who are trying to make money.
The conservative radio host blamed the "irrational vitriol" both he and the organization faced after he was appointed.
So maybe it's natural to wonder—if we can't express irrational numbers exactly, how close can we get?
He proved that for every irrational number, there exist infinitely many fractions that approximate the number evermore closely.
Since former Speaker Newt Gingrich's (R-Ga.) time, they've had to contend with irrational obstinacy, obstruction and disingenuousness.
We see Brett Kavanaugh spitting irrational rage, hypocritically undermining the very process he was assailing as a sham.
I think it's obvious enough why humans are irrational, but where does this mania for rationality come from?
And my lingering, irrational fear of Stack's voice is a testament to how terrifying that unknown can be.
Earlier this year, the High Court in Pretoria ruled that the decision not to charge him was irrational.
That move might have seemed irrational at the time, but it turned out to be a wise decision.
But calling the desire for permanent punishment crude does not render it irrational however unpopular it might be.
Rather, it is the irrational insinuation that people who hold views different from your own are themselves illegitimate.
On this, it is not the Pakistanis who are irrational but those who attempt to minimize Pakistan's concerns.
She said parents should gently correct irrational fears but not downplay anxieties just to make children feel better.
" In a statement denouncing those comments, McKinnon, 37, said Hood has "expressed an irrational fear of trans women.
Platitudes such as 'violence only begets violence' have no use when the initial perpetrator has exhibited irrational evil.
" As a result, the board's decisions about how long to keep someone in prison were "irrational and cruel.
Greenspan is widely known for the "irrational exuberance" speech he gave at the American Enterprise Institute in 1996.
To the Editor: It is completely irrational to try to keep Baby Charlie, who has no future, alive.
The bitcoin analyst said that the cryptocurrency crackdown was expected due to "irrational excesses" in the Chinese market.
He was wary of the ludicrous, irrational resistance he knew in his bones would be coming for them.
He compromised with his irrational, newly teenage daughter by melting into the crowd for most of the set.
Platitudes such as "violence only begets violence" have no use when the initial perpetrator has exhibited irrational evil.
Our history is rife with irrational and even violent responses to politicians and their positions (ideological and physical).
Rather, it acts as a warning that irrational exuberance is back with a vengeance in the metals markets.
But what we won't be able to handle is irrational behavior that puts the country in grave danger.
" There's an old saying on Wall Street, "markets can remain irrational for longer than investors can remain solvent.
The Republican party has doubled down since then, painting Democratic criticism and protest as dangerous, irrational, and nefarious.
When people make irrational decisions during an economic downturn, they can irrevocably ruin the prospects for their retirement.
Sellers had irrational expectations or they were using the sky-high prices to attract attention to their properties.
What I think was missing is the serious issue of President Trump's stability, mental balance and irrational behavior.
Mr. O'Brien's "Going After Cacciato" is an irrational picaresque, with an AWOL protagonist walking from Vietnam to Paris.
Optimism and pessimism are both irrational, and based on assumptions that you can predict anything about the future.
"The medical world—and society at large—often suggests that women are inherently emotional and irrational," she says.
And what's more, Thaler notes that while economically irrational, this kind of accounting serves important purposes for people.
Mr. Gribkoff acknowledges the irrational fear of Muslims; if people would properly inform themselves about the true threats to American lives — which include our own health issues, as Dr. Ahmad stated — rather than play into the fear-mongering media, they would understand just how irrational their fear of Muslims is.
Interest rates have created "irrational competition," mogul Warren Buffett reportedly concurred in a meeting with a top venture capitalist.
"I think the reaction that's happening is loud, vocal, irrational, and coming more from parents than students," Sands said.
The decision is another setback for India's efforts to weed out irrational fixed-dose combination drugs from the market.
As President Obama has found, there is little that policymakers can realistically do about society's irrational fear of terrorism.
Communist Party-owned paper People's Daily said Trump's comments were "irrational China bashing" that showed his "ignorance of China".
The source said it wasn't nefarious, but rather "irrational exuberance" and a desire to be "too ambitious" too fast.
Using the actions of a few extremists to justify fear of 1.6 billion people worldwide is irrational and amoral.
Irrational fitness has nothing to do with the benefits of fitness and everything to do with punishment and fear.
Significantly, the irrational choices made by this hand puppet were literally held in check by a good, rational man.
Taiwan's China policy-making Mainland Affairs Council said the Global Times and Chinese government's comments were "intimidating and irrational".
Is it always irrational, they asked, for a defendant to agree to a plea that results in his deportation?
"The market is sometimes irrational and sometimes rational," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box " from the bank's annual CEO summit.
Keys and his fellow researchers noted an overwhelming apathy among the subjects, punctuated by paradoxical periods of irrational irritability.
HC: There are a lot of trends and bandwagoning in the art world — "irrational" behavior from an economic perspective.
Public discourse has never been as idiotic, cruel, irrational and utterly pointless in my lifetime as it is now.
When asked how they would describe menopause to other men, the most common focus was "irrational" or "emotional" moods.
Older couple relaxing by pool It's not exactly irrational for wealthy people to be cautious about spending their money.
She's smart and usually civil, but Donald Trump has made her, and millions of others just like her, irrational.
But it also refers to irrational decisions people will make if they see large portfolio losses in a recession.
The move isn't irrational: In a negative-rate world, EM bonds are an obvious place to look for yield.
Despite a nagging suspicion that this expectation might be irrational, I kept thinking, Shouldn't it be easier this time?!
The man isn't irrational, or insane, but he is trapped in his own drive to prevail by dominating others.
It's not irrational for Brown to dislike the association of her name attached to these memes and want separation.
The army contends Boko Haram is significantly weakened and has been "irrational and unreliable" in negotiations over the schoolgirls.
Dipak Misra, India's chief justice, called the archaic law "irrational [and] indefensible" in his ruling, according to The Guardian.
In contrast, unlike some liberal thinkers I don't believe that the irrational and passions can be supressed in life.
Mr Tillerson, for all his failures, sought to provide a moderate counterweight to Mr Trump's impulsive and irrational views.
" She said 90 percent of the trading in China is by retail investors, who can be "erratic and irrational.
In the future, he could remember this safe experience rather than his older, irrational association between balconies and danger.
Some companies claim their crowns thanks to irrational exuberance: Cisco's share price was 230 times earnings at its peak.
Second, the administration removed one of the most irrational features of the original ban, its inclusion of Iraqi nationals.
There is more than a whiff of irrational exuberance to nickel's stellar performance over the last couple of weeks.
The point is there are many logical reasons to explain what is otherwise considered to be an irrational gamble.
The dispute has reached "irrational levels" and is penalyzing all shareholders, including CSN, clients and, especially, employees, he added.
The effect is only amplified in the pressure-cooker environment of an aircraft, where irrational fears find fertile ground.
My colleague was being irrational—but then, as behavioural economists are always telling us, consumers do tend to be.
This being the long known truth, he is trying to get the limelight with irrational justifications and political remarks.
Since 2014, Allen has unveiled Magic in the Moonlight, Cafe Society, and An Irrational Man, three star-studded movies.
"Pi may be irrational, but free pizza is anything but," Conway, an award winning mathematician, said in a statement.
John Maynard Keynes' warning that a market "can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" is well heeded.
Though she knew it was irrational, she never believed that water had enough density to buoy her up sufficiently.
American drug policy tends to make irrational swings from being too relaxed about opioid prescribing to being too harsh.
The guy's already a natural at dealing with irrational reality TV contestants, even going out of his way — twice!
That's what happens repeatedly: in the Vietnam War, government shutdowns and in the irrational swings of the stock market.
The answer, as is perhaps obvious, is the ideological insistence on renewables and an irrational fear of nuclear power.
She also criticized the fervent speculation and excitement behind the asset class, attributing price movements to irrational investor behavior.
In this view, "irrational exuberance" leads investors to pay too much for stocks, relative to fundamentals such as earnings.
Then in August, as the fabulous fall migration looms, New York City birders will start the same irrational dance.
"They begin to behave in a highly risky and irrational way, creating an acute sense of crisis," he says.
Only when that changes will it be possible to judge if China truly has gender parity in irrational exuberance.
"The burden we carry is already unbearable," the GSEE said in a statement, calling the demands of lenders "irrational".
Contrary to what some may think, Iran's supreme leader is not the irrational religious fanatic that is generally portrayed.
It is also urging firms in a variety of industrial sectors to merge, to end "duplication" and irrational competition.
But all four pieces of his own program, which opened on Saturday night, show his talent's marvelously irrational aspect.
It's important to identify our innate tendencies toward irrational behaviors and draw up a plan to manage our biases.
In other words, for now at least, it would seemingly be irrational for Pyongyang to launch nuclear weapons first.
"Pricing is decreasing in a way that is irrational and disconnected from credit risk," one middle market lender said.
He's filled them with irrational fears and sold them on the notion that only he can rescue us all.
One such critic has been Judge Rakoff, who called the guidelines "irrational" in July, when Mr. Caspersen pleaded guilty.
The work discusses how humans are often irrational beings whose behavior can be influenced, or "nudged," through their environment.
"You have an upset electorate that is making an irrational decision based on where they are now," he said.
First, there is nothing irrational about why markets have remained relatively calm in the face of escalating trade tensions.
This funding restriction is not only irrational, but harmful to the very survivors OVC grants are designed to protect.
This is the power of an irrational fear fantasy—the more imagination you have, the deeper you can go.
It's irrational, to be sure, but also understandable given the outsized pressure to win in big-time college football.
Gail: I do worry that if he manages to be not totally irrational or insulting, he'll clear the bar.
Second, for each of the numbers in your list, choose how closely you'd like to approximate an irrational number.
Robert Shiller's "Irrational Exuberance" is a seminal book that forewarned investors about the dot-com bust and housing crisis.
But Churchill hated the Sutherland portrait with so much irrational passion that it all turned into a tragicomic fiasco.
Fear about sovereignty did to normally pragmatic English minds what fear does to most minds: It made them irrational.
Thaler took an obvious point, that people don't always behave rationally, and showed the ways we are systematically irrational.
He did not simply argue that humans are irrational, which has always been obvious but is not particularly helpful.
Once you have used a washing machine, laundering clothes by hand seems irrational, even if it might be cheaper.
Brittany was not depressed, despondent, or making irrational decisions, all of those characteristics of a person that is suicidal.
But this time around, no one is accusing Americans of irrational exuberance: These good times don't feel particularly good.
Superstitious people are often dismissed as irrational, stunted thinkers — mental children who never outgrow a scrambled understanding of causality.
And Trump seems deranged and irrational on so many issues that one more bizarre claim hardly seems to matter.
The fact is human progress is fitful, sporadic, irrational, and insufficient because that's just the way human beings are.
And I've expressed the view that spending some money is not irrational here," Marks said on CNBC's "Closing Bell.
What I did not understand was that sometimes fear, even the irrational sort, has a purpose, an evolutionary logic.
The commission is still watching to see if there are irrational declines in the stock market, he told reporters.
The irrational fear of "white genocide" isn't merely a motif of modern white supremacy -- it is modern white supremacy.
This harms a society that must find its way through fake news, conspiracy theories, demagoguery and shrill, irrational thinking.
That irrational encounter precipitates the narrator's steady unraveling and final confrontation with what I can only call the absurd.
More succinctly, they write, Rational dislike of the other party may be more difficult to overcome than irrational dislike.
That&aposs likely to continue to fuel inflated valuations and irrational investments for some time to come, he said.
Equally irrational is the notion that you reduce the burden of regulation by cutting the resources of the regulators.
Craig Jenks, an aviation consultant based in New York, detects signs of "irrational exuberance" in the trans-Atlantic market.
Behavioral therapy undoubtedly helps many people conquer their irrational fears and anxiety, but others never achieve the intended effect.
For examples of irrational, violent populism animated nominally against Trump, but really against civil society, look to the people.
I hovered alone at the edge of the group, overcome with irrational fear — what if Sandler didn't recognize me?
To be clear, it is both illogical and disingenuous for our detractors to perpetuate irrational fears of increased smoking.
"Irrational Exuberance" to cite Alan Greenspan — otherwise known as a bubble — is certainly one of the most common causes.
Was it so irrational then, so irresponsible, of that store owner to stay open an extra day or two?
It's not irrational to fear that these new guidelines might lead to more of the latter than the former.
The area of a circle is the product πr2, where π is an irrational number equal to approximately 3.14.
Within those narrow gaps (between irrational and rational, functional zero and zero), creative ingenuity — not just neuroses — can thrive.
On Wednesday, members of Congress for the first time took action to undo this unduly restrictive and irrational policy.
And I'm not sure if that is irrational or not, but that is my — Why are you feeling that?
If you're single, the eclipse will bring a breakthrough that causes you to come to terms with irrational behavior.
Many of the happy accidents that pushed music and culture forward happened because of a wrong or irrational move.
But that vengeful and irrational nature is precisely why the fights must be picked and must be picked now.
"As a society we're irrational about it, but government has to accept that irrationality rather than fight it," she said.
I'm also super interested in the idea that the initial data of the universe could contain irrational or uncomputable numbers.
Some investments such as in properties, hotels, entertainment and soccer clubs, were categorised as "irrational investment" and received more scrutiny.
And, in their own calculations, lenders cannot consider steps they would take to conserve capital, something bankers describe as irrational.
"An irrational and hasty 'get tough with China' policy would be detrimental to U.S. long-term interests," People's Daily opined.
"My biggest irrational, hopefully, fear is that the Zika virus is going to be the solution to overpopulation," she shared.
"Rattlesnakes are an absolute necessity for the ecosystems, and people have an irrational fear about them," a company spokesman said.
Slim called Trump's decision to move manufacturing irrational and costly, joking that the U.S. needs Mexicans to build the wall.
They do not address the systemic social, economic, political and personal drivers of racism, xenophobia and irrational fear of otherness.
Khalid al-Falih, Saudi's energy minister, warned of "irrational exuberance" on March 7th during an energy-industry conference in Houston.
He explains the factors that could end these displays of "irrational exuberance," and shares his investing strategy for right now.
I think the same is true for any neophyte entrant into the irrational and mostly profitless market for Android smartphones.
This week, People reported that Depp's lawyer observed Heard appearing "manic and irrational" at her deposition hearing over the weekend.
Normally this increase in deal volume would concern me — make me question whether there is irrational exuberance in the market.
Mortals, he seems to say, are predisposed to dreams, and thus to the irrational; only a slight push is needed.
Expect heightened political demagoguery, irrational levels of brinkmanship, and extreme financial-market volatility for substantially all of those 131 days.
Tuesday after a neighbor called 911 about a woman acting in an irrational manner, Assistant Chief Larry W. Nikunen said.
It's not partisan to critique Trump's irrational opinion on climate change—it's the responsible and civic-minded thing to do.
Sure, it's a good introduction to the idea of irrational numbers, but tau would work just as well for that.
Driven by hopes of a rate cut, stocks' swift comeback from the May turmoil seems a bit irrational, strategists said.
Harris warned of this — the hijacking of the conversation by irrational actors on the far right — over 10 years ago.
Its value is usually given as 1.618, although in reality, it's an irrational number with infinite decimal places, like pi.
New York magazine gathered some scientific explanations for nyctophobia, or the irrational fear of night or darkness to the layman.
Blame it on my irrational fear of getting a tapeworm, but I tend to stock up on vegetarian items first.
Many modern research papers focus on anomalies or on behavioural quirks that might cause investors to make apparently irrational decisions.
"Whether Clinton or Trump wins, people will become irrational and there will be value in beat-up sectors," he said.
On a purely biological level, it's also irrational to think size has anything to do with your baby-making skills.
"To tax away thousands of jobs is a deeply irrational policy," head of the Swedish Bankers' Association, Hans Lindberg, said.
At some point it's irrational if you don't want to spend your money to use your time and attention better.
One of his signature phrases was "irrational exuberance" to describe the mood during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s.
Then, last week, Cuba's President Raúl Castro made his first public retort, describing President Trump's policies as "egotistical" and "irrational".
" For Alberto Pelliccione, one of the five former employees who was under investigation, these were "irrational and completely unfounded accusations.
Chief among them is that humans are irrational creatures, destined to undermine their noblest dreams and their most enlightened enterprises.
It seems rational to value life more than a game, but Silcox argues that it's actually an irrational value judgment.
A late-film reveal fleshes him out slightly, but only makes his intentions more petty, irrational, and difficult to buy.
" Bank of America double downgraded the stock after the company's earnings report and said the delivery market was increasingly "irrational.
It allowed me to get off the perfectionist hamster wheel, and let go of irrational expectations, both physical and mental.
I should visit him, I thought, then had an irrational fear that my parents — both long gone — would be angry.
This unquestionably denied work and prosperity to millions of people, simply to feed the irrational desires of people like Hiatt.
Who wouldn't be distressed working for a seemingly irrational and temperamental boss armed with the power of the American presidency?
"As congressional Republicans embrace this irrational anti-spending ideology, this country is put in greater and greater danger," she said.
The EU, by contrast, is based on precisely the opposite idea, namely that self-determination is both irrational and dangerous.
And saying so is no less irrational than shrugging it all off in the guise of seen-it-all sophistication.
AND TO QUOTE WHAT GREENSPAN SAID MANY, MANY YEARS AGO, I THINK THERE'S A BIT OF IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE RIGHT NOW.
By one closely watched measure of valuation, Alan Greenspan's irrational exuberance warning should be keeping investors near the sell button.
Recently however, as a consequence of tragic accidents caused by cars in self-driving mode, an irrational discussion is surfacing.
Garner believes the selloff is justifiable since the earlier rally to over $70 a barrel was due to irrational exuberance.
But the High Court last month ordered a review of the NPA's decision to drop the charges, terming it "irrational".
Obama's attempt to make gender socially and legally irrelevant is so riddled with inconsistencies that the whole effort seems irrational.
In the book he refers to Ms. Lakshmi as his "Illusion," and he describes her as irrational, vapid and vain.
These "alive-again" dreams were disturbing, inflaming the survivor's irrational sense of guilt over "allowing" the person to pass away.
"People do irrational things, such as putting metal items inside microwaves—clearly things that are not recommended," says Diez-Gonzalez.
They're the bane of most cyclists' existence, for both rational reasons (safety) and extremely irrational ones (that goddamn annoying horn).
Does this indicate an irrational exuberance where investors are engaging in wish fulfilment and creating magic where none actually existed?
But as rational as this approach is, when it comes to donating money for conservation efforts, humans are famously irrational.
My family accused me of being irrational and silly, especially considering how many single and beautiful women were in Russia.
The next step is to figure out how many irrational numbers you can approximate with each of the reduced fractions.
Critic score: 46%Audience score: 46%"Irrational Man" is a drama that follows womanizing, alcoholic professor Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix).
Humans, the research often suggested, were reliably mercurial, highly suggestible, profoundly irrational, tricksters better at fooling ourselves than anyone else.
If Washington believes that Kim is truly irrational, then it will be more inclined to use force to stop him.
The Troubles ignited in the first place, in large measure, because limited acts of violence were met with irrational escalation.
Yet their preoccupation with childhood and "primitive and irrational wishes and fears" have influenced the study of authoritarianism ever since.
In the book "Predictably Irrational," Ariely discusses an experiment involving two types of chocolate candy: Hershey's Kisses and Lindt Truffles.
It was irrational to feel so rushed, yet I couldn't help but view every play button as a limited resource.
Irrational as this may seem, health-communications experts say denial is a natural human response to overwhelming emotion and panic.
It reiterated a warning issued in December that restrictions on overseas investments were being imposed because of "irrational" investment trends.
Of course, it is far from irrational to feel some fear about the coronavirus outbreak tearing through China and beyond.
The order pointed to cases in which many consumers make seemingly irrational choices that hurt themselves over the long-term.
Also, look at the game industry, which has been devastated here in Boston with the loss of Irrational and others.
There's art — the idea of art, the irrational purity of art, the insanity of it — and then there's product-making.
Walmart would be irrational to pay more, especially since it would also have to cover a $400 million break fee.
Specialty retail analyst Randy Konik believes worries around Foot Locker are "overblown," creating an irrational sell-off in the shares.
The key point here is not that people are irrational; it's that this irrationality comes from a very rational place.
"All of these are just side shows of irrational patriarchy," said Marilyn Kamuru, a prominent lawyer and gender rights commentator.
Micah Goodman, an American-Israeli Jewish philosopher, said that the Israelis' "automatic identification" with soldiers sometimes led to "irrational" results.
The answer to these questions is easy: Rational Republicans have lost ground to irrational Republicans, who seemingly rule the roost.
Given the irrational patchwork of regulations that governs wine distribution, every state essentially offers consumers a different selection of wines.
He is an irrational man, who definitely deserved to be person of the year for all of his horrible decisions.
I have no issue with the benefit of reasonable speed limits and believe that Germans' resistance to them is irrational.
"Totally irrational," Mr. Nouvel, who was in town for the museum's opening, called the formation — and, by extension, his design.
It was tempting bait because it was exactly the kind of absurd proposal that paints gun rights activists as irrational.
Brexit was fueled by irrational xenophobia, not real economic grievances Since the results, people keep asking us if we're okay.
Hobbs goes for humor, she says, because it points out the absurdity that can result from thoughts and irrational behavior.
However, Dürrenmatt can teach us how to make sense of irrational policies through the use of literature, and especially comedy.
The North Korean regime isn't irrational, and the ruling Kim family has spent decades working to guarantee it maintains power.
In the private markets, there may be the same amount of irrational upward assessment as reflected by some valuations that get ahead of themselves, but irrational downward assessment is rarer simply because such an assessment would mean the market thinks a company is not fundable and, without capital, it likely goes out of business.
I've long taught my teenage daughter that you never win an argument with an irrational opponent even by using emphatic reason.
While Carter was careful not to call the Chinese leadership irrational, he clearly sees Beijing as acting against its own interests.
Policymakers and politicians know that if they fail to acknowledge people's fears, however irrational, they will soon cease to have jobs.
" Biden also implied that Medicare for All is irrational, arguing that the majority of Democrats are "center left" not "way left.
So it's hard to make the argument to any unauthorized immigrant living under Trump that her fear is irrational and undeserved.
It's the first game by developer The Molasses Flood, a team drawn from major studios like Irrational Games, Harmonix, and Bungie.
But what if the ability to disconnect has less to do with legislation and more with our often irrational human psychology?
"The horror of what happened to my friend ignited irrational thoughts that do not represent the person I am," Neeson continued.
Wal-Mart would be irrational to pay more, especially since it would also have to cover a $400 million break fee.
To me it spans a spectrum of from the ignorant to the irrational, if you listen to what their actually saying.
Opposed: Simple—because people being unreasonable and irrational when it comes to pro sports is the only reason pro sports exists.
Facing a charge she saw as irrational, Haelle says that she wasn't angry with her anesthesiologist or even with the hospital.
As their work on irrational decision-making has made its way into the wider world, it has also irritated incumbent pundits.
Just as Crocker circulated as a kind of cartoon of irrational hyper-identification, the coverage of standom often relied on caricatures.
He was often inconsistent, self-regarding or irrational, as when he claimed his habit of celibacy could somehow end religious violence.
"Arkangel" starts by making her seem irrational and damaged, and it goes on to track her behavior as extreme and horrifying.
"But their means of expressing views have become illegal, irrational and unreasonable," the statement said, accusing demonstrators of disrupting police work.
The notion that Clinton (or any woman) would be weak, or irrational, or guided by her hormones, was always sexist nonsense.
They say that, in comparison to the effects estrogen has had on them, testosterone appears to have promoted irrational decision making.
Products that prioritize functionality earn high scores; there's very little room for emotion or irrational verdicts in this line of work.
It winds up feeling deliberately satirical, because it's so laughably self-important, yet at the same time so unbelievable and irrational.
The bank could have settled for much less—around €1bn—but chose to gamble, calling French demands "irrational" and politically motivated.
I have this irrational phobia about unseen germs, and although it's largely under control, some things just really set me off.
Shortly after its publication, someone tweeted me, asking whether I had heard of trypophobia, or, an irrational fear of hole clusters.
They demonstrated cases in which "cognitive illusions" affect judgement, and highlighted the conditions in which humans tend to make irrational decisions.
And, as consumers, we have to open our eyes to the fact that food ads today promote and encourage irrational decisions.
North Korea has a history of making unfounded and irrational claims, and CNN was not able to independently corroborate the report.
The next big problem for single-payer is that it rationalizes, concentrates, and clarifies an irrational, diffuse, and hidden financing system.
However, overseas investments have become riskier business this year amid a crackdown by regulators on "irrational" spending overseas, including in sport.
SpongeBob's irrational, indefatigable optimism has become a big-eyed beacon of hope to anyone having a bad day, week, or year.
But this is obviously irrational, since nature is becoming a whole lot more hostile thanks in part to that very process.
Unless, of course, people find the instigator so insufferable and irrational that they can't stand to watch her antics any longer.
There is certainly a degree of exuberance in China's exchange-traded iron ore price, although it's rational rather than irrational exuberance.
Rob can be really irrational and he just has to learn to really take responsibility for himself and not blame Chyna.
The more irrational and off-base someone is, the easier it should be for you to remove yourself from their traps.
They were my brothers and my fears were irrational, but it's hard not to think they wouldn't feel a certain way.
Similar VC math causes irrational trade-offs for founders whether their investors have billion-dollar funds or quarter-billion-dollar funds.
I want to be better at it, and different at it, and I want to yell less, and not be irrational.
His dad also has a rivalry with Henry Bowers' dad, Butch, which is the cause for Henry's irrational hatred of Mike.
If horror movies have given you an irrational fear of creepy dolls, you might want to avoid air travel in Thailand.
And sometimes it feels like this symbol creates irrational drama: It has people thinking we're inevitably going to tick to midnight.
As someone who suffers from an irrational fear of being covered in sticky stuff (long story), this scores big for me.
Which is why this irrational fear of supporting federal legislation similar to the aforementioned state reforms is all the more baffling.
This irrational behavior and outlandish requests are just a small example of why the North can't be reasoned with or trusted.
The senator from New Jersey talks about love—or "unreasonable, irrational, impractical love," as he once put it—all the time.
People often think teenagers are acting in an irrational way on these platforms, but they can usually explain themselves very clearly.
Mr. Obama was pelted with irrational rumors (foreign born, Muslim, Communist), yet his opponents, John McCain and Mitt Romney, were not.
It's the sheer unfamiliarity of the Uber driving experience, he speculated, that may explain the initial bout of economically irrational behavior.
Uncontrollable worry is what happens when an uncomfortable feeling takes control of our brains and instills panic, fear, and irrational thoughts.
Managers often regard women who are visibly pregnant as less committed, less dependable, less authoritative and more irrational than other women.
In a recent interview with Business Insider, Shiller pinpointed long-term Treasurys as the marketplace he's watching for irrational behavior today.
I know many of those who voted for Trump, and they are by no means stupid, irrational, racist or anti-democratic.
This November, California voters have an opportunity to put an end to a failed and irrational system by supporting Prop 62.
With a target-date fund, investing and rebalancing is done automatically, which helps remove potential irrational decision-making from the equation.
Unfortunately, existing federal programs create irrational incentives that will result in needless future harm and billions in avoidable costs to taxpayers.
There are lots of reasons why people adopt seemingly irrational political stances that, on the surface, seem to work against them.
What you felt you should do, however irrational it might seem to others, is most often what needed to be done.
South of the DMZ (de-militarized zone) in Seoul they are used to Kim's -- and his father and grandfather's -- irrational rantings.
"I've seen arguments that he's irrational and unpredictable, and I've seen arguments that he's very thoughtful about solidifying power," Mattis said.
"There are irrational aspects of the policy," said Sean Cahill, director of health policy research at the Fenway Institute last year.
Your love of sushi and irrational hatred for Anne Hathaway in part makes you you, and no one can replicate that.
I have developed this irrational thing about being caught doing something crazy on video that will end up on a Vine.
In a letter to the editor, Dutch researchers questioned whether Meiri's use of the word "irrational" in the definition is appropriate.
It would not be incorrect to call that a cynical bit of policymaking, but it also seems irrational and self-defeating.
That's the real risk of an irrational response, whether the threats come from new laws or more speech cops at Facebook.
The Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture has you add up the measures of the sets of irrational numbers captured by each approximating fraction.
Gennaioli and Shleifer made the case that there were multiple actors, from investors to ratings agencies, whose irrational expectations generated risk.
Result: Some data showed a sag in start-up investments in the later part of 2019, but irrational exuberance largely continued.
A simple gut check can go a long way if you're not sure if you're being irrational or just following suit.
Those Yankees, though, were trying to maintain a tradition unrivaled in their sport and demanded by their irrational owner, George Steinbrenner.
Never mind the ifs, ands, or buts of her irrational landscapes — logic just doesn't function in worlds made out of fragments.
But all of these millions of individual rational decisions make up our economy, which is being undone by your irrational policies.
Fear of the dark is regarded as an irrational fear, often only attributed to children but also valid for some adults.
They would be "irrational" if your husband was storing jelly beans in his gun cabinet, but there are rifles in there.
Ms. Baum seems to admit as much when she writes that even the most rational art is at its core irrational.
The only emotions Trump feels are satisfaction, when he is praised and fawned over, and irrational anger, when he is criticized.
And Carlson, for his part, found a way to indict the irrational masses and the liberal elites in the same breath.
But it's also important to remember that Nixon was not in fact a madman and chose his "irrational" moves with precision.
The two of them face plenty of irrational malevolence from the peripheral characters, including Gabriella's sister and her coffee shop boss.
I think there is very much an irrational core and essence to doing this work because it doesn't make any sense.
It is often irrational (ask anyone who bet McGregor over Mayweather) and at the mercy of both momentum and unforeseen circumstances.
"We make an emotional, irrational decision to do what feels good right now," instead of doing what is necessary, he said.
For decades, conventional wisdom has held that England suffers as much from irrational expectations as soccer deficiencies at the World Cup.
Bond rally is a sign investors aren't complacent or irrational Still, others maintain that the market's relentless march higher is rational.
Enraged and irrational, he was incapable of hiding his contempt, which is ever-present, and heedless of his effect on others.
The fear that trans women will 'take over' sport is an irrational fear of trans people — the very definition of transphobia.
Zhang Mengjie, 29, who adores South Korean boy bands like BTS, said boycotts of South Korean goods and artists were irrational.
With parties this polarized, bipartisanship, as I show in the book, is irrational for the out-of-power party to offer.
She had accused him of having revenge fantasies, exhibiting "irrational, unsafe, bullying, threatening and controlling behavior," according to her custody petition.
He's prepared to lose everything to get Axe, just to satisfy some deep-seated, irrational, animalistic urge to fell an enemy.
By that I refer to both his anti-Semitic remarks and his irrational embrace of wacky conspiracy theories about weather control.
Rizvi clearly wants to save the world from the ravages of irrational thinking that excuses all sorts of violence and destruction.
Still, Cramer was loath to write this off as irrational exuberance, or the idea that the market is approaching a top.

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