Is FOMO the new greed when it comes to investing?

The idea is not novel, even if the acronym is. Similar thought processes have featured before in earlier crises. In 2007, Citi's Chuck Prince famously stressed the need to keep dancing as long as the music was playing: a freely chosen indulgence presented as an unquestionable obligation. So, is the current version of FOMO just greed in disguise? It is tempting to think so or, at the very least, conclude that the word "fear" here describes a more discretionary and easily surmountable dread than, say, the fear of loss, value destruction or worse. The casting of FOMO as a genuine…