The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.

Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values

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 integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to reach a compromise that everybody accepted, because Germany was so eager to get European support for reunification. That was called the "farsighted vision," which created the European Union.

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.