If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.