We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.

We all use cash in our everyday life, but we don't use hundred-dollar bills. We're not using 500-euro notes. And yet these account for mountains of cash out there. I think they're being used in tax evasion and by criminals of all types.

The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.

It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.