It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.