In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again.

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

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

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.