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

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

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

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

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.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.