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that surrounded Bob's work on excess volatility.
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In particular, where so many in finance seemed to regard attacks
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on the efficient market hypothesis
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in rather the way they would regard attacks on their spouses or children,
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and called for not just a rational rejoinder,
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but some effort at the destruction of the assailant.
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I remember that my sense of the issue and the merits,
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where my sympathies had always been with Bob,
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crystallized in the summer of 1987.
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In the summer of 1987,
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there was a certain set of facts that was very clear.
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It was very clear in the summer of 1987