I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

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

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.