Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

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.

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