Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.