Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in the world today is that we are not providing it in the present.

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

The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.

I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.