I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the craziness would take on a life of its own, and that the monster they created would turn on its creators as well as the little people.

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working Americans. And now it looks as if it never will.