People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

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

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

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

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

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

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.