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

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

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

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.