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

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

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.

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

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.

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

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.