It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.