Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very important. The US corporations dominate Washington. The big oil companies, Wall Street banks and the military-industrial complex - they rule this country and their influence and power has to be broken.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

Devaluations are never easy.