History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.