The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

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

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.