When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

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

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