If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.