Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.