When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

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

[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

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

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