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

The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.

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

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor of the Sloan Building, in between playing tennis and drinking coffee at my other study in the Concord Avenue branch of Burger King.