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 amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.

One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.