I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I cannot conceive of a better book about Capitol Hill. An unforgettable, epic achievement in the art of biography.

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.