What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.