I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

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

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.