How much do you know about Bernard Baruch?

He's mentioned in the foreword of The Elliott Wave Principle - Key To Market Behavior, A.J. Frost's and Robert Prechter's definitive book on wave analysis (emphasis added):

Today's obsession with short-term blinks of the investment eye is Wall Street's attempt to take the market cycle out of the performance picture. Similarly, total return hocus-pocus places artificial significance on bond market values while it obscures the importance of the income produced. WCM users will have none of it; the investment gods are angry.