Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning, an incantation murmured under the breath as the torchlights sink lower and the forest looms taller and the wolves howl louder and the fire prepares for its submission to the encroaching dark.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.