The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

There is no point in being confident and having a small position.

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.