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

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.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

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

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

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.