Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.

Weaker currencies abroad mean a strong dollar, and a stronger dollar, together with a weak global environment, is a drag on the U.S. economy. So it's important, as it affects overall levels of production and employment in the U.S. There are many domestic industries doing well in the United States, notwithstanding a strong dollar.

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.