At the root of all financial bubbles is a good idea carried to excess.
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Seth Klarman
Born in 1957 in New York, Seth Klarman founded the Baupost Group in 1982 with 27 million dollars in seed capital and has compounded it at roughly 20% annually ever since. He carries forward Benjamin Graham's margin-of-safety concept into the modern era; his book Margin of Safety became an investing classic that commands over a thousand dollars on the secondhand market. He is known as 'the Oracle of Boston.'
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