A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.
James SurowieckiThe Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.
James SurowieckiThe profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.
James SurowieckiThe smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.
James Surowiecki