The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.