White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

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.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.