It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs

When I look out the window at my backyard, I can't think of anything interesting to ask. I mean, it's green, it's growing-but nothing occurs to me that any concentrated effort of thought could possibly enlighten. Whereas in economic, statistical, or mathematical kinds of things, I can think lots of questions.

We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.