I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

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

I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.

I'm a plain soap kind of guy.

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