St.John's Worth = Prozac



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> New York Times:
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> "My own view is that one reason the investor class, including me, missed =
the
> downside was serotonin," James J. Cramer, a former hedge fund manager and=

> author of "Confessions of a Street Addict" (Simon & Schuster, 2002), said=
,
> referring to a substance in the brain that antidepression drugs augment.=

> "Prozac and all those other drugs banish the `this is the end of the worl=
d'
> thoughts," Mr. Cramer explained. "Which means you are not as anxious as y=
ou
> should be about an obvious down side."
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/business/07SHRI.html