When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.