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.

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

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

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.

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.