The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

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.