The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.